We just finished our last tutorials of the first term! Congratulations to all the students for the great three months and looking forward to the remaining two terms.
Students completed both briefs (brief01:systems and brief2A:festival) and are starting the case studies of events as part of our last brief (brief2B:realise).
Here are couple pictures of the projects we have seen during the last tutorials. Where do you suggest building the structures over the summer?
Merry Christmas & best wishes for the New Year!!
John Konings’s towering gridshell.John Konings’s towering gridshell.John Konings’s towering gridshell.Andres Jippa’s 3D prints, driven by Chaos theory’s strange attractors.Andres Jippa’s 3D prints, driven by Chaos theory’s strange attractors.Andres Jippa’s 3D prints, driven by Chaos theory’s strange attractors.Andres Jippa’s 3D prints, driven by Chaos theory’s strange attractors.Andres Jippa’s 3D prints, driven by Chaos theory’s strange attractors.Andres Jippa’s 3D prints, driven by Chaos theory’s strange attractors. Construction Component.Henry Turner’s Curved Intersecting Plywood Wave StructureIeva Ciocyte’s Flame Tower made of Intersecting plywood componentsSarah Shuttleworth’s Moebius Strips made of Steel Stars.William Garforth-Bless’ Bamboo Hammock AmphitheatreWilliam Garforth-Bless’ Bamboo Hammock Amphitheatre
Very enjoyable crit day for DS10 at Westminster University. It was our second cross-crit of the year and students showed their proposal for Brief2A, building an interactive structure for Burning Man or the festival of their choice.
Toby and I are happy to introduce our engineers for the Burning Man projects: Harri Lewis and Stephen Melville from Ramboll Computational Design (RCD). We had our first meeting this morning (with Georgia and Thanasis) in our DS10 studio. Couple updates:
We are working on the best construction sequence for the two projects as well as the structural analysis diagrams (defining the size and amount of ground anchors) to receive the first part of the Burning Man grant. We will start booking our plane tickets very soon, DS10 people please make sure to confirm your attendance!!
The Fractal Cult (abstract) will have a thicker sub-structure which will transfer the loads of the cantilevers all the way down to a solid base anchored to the ground. The junctions could be similar to the Trada pavillion by RCD with hinges as well as notches.
For Shipwreck(abstract)we are exploring two options: Sectioning the hull with planar timber sheets or using a series of smaller members that would be laminated directly on fixed “ribs”.
More info very soon.
Harri Lewis and Stephen Melville in the DS10 studio showing an option for the Shipwreck’s curved beams (model by Philip Hurrel).Stephen Melville and Harri Lewis from Ramboll RCD.Shipwreck by Georgia-Rose Collard-Watson, the “ribs” holding the strips.Work in Progress!Work in Progress!
Couple projects from Ramboll Computational Design:
Trada Pavilion RCD RambollKREOD by Pavilion Architecture is a reciprocal timber gridshell (with RCD and Evolute)Belvedere Tree (a DJ booth for Chromeo in NY)
Belvedere Tree in action with Chromeo:
Stephen Melville presenting the Astana Presidential Library facade rationalization (with BIG)
Scott London, a journalist from California has published on his blog some nice images of Burning Man 2011. Thank you to Rodrigo Medina Garcia, author of DesignPlaygrounds.com  for the link.
Check the pictures until the last one and an interesting description of the event by the journalist will appear: ” It’s no exaggeration to say the Burning Man festival is one of the world’s hippest and most mind-blowing gatherings. It’s not quite an art festival, not quite a desert rave, and not quite a social experiment, but something of all three. Held each summer in the remote Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada, it’s a week-long celebration of free-form creativity and radical self-expression.
Burning Man takes place in a temporary “city” some five miles wide that rises out of the open desert toward summer’s end only to vanish again after the event is over. For a few brief days, the ephemeral metropolis known as Black Rock City ranks among the largest communities in the state of Nevada.”
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