Sunday, November 7, 2010

A Room - Pouring - Construction E04/05

The mid-semester exercise in construction, concluding the sequence from the hat over its plan to the room. The task was to chose between one of three major construction methods (pouring, framework construction and layering) and to transform the model of the last exercise into a new one regarding the limitations and qualities of the chosen method and solving the method-related problems (the connection between single bars in framework, the openings and edges in layering and the construction and de-construction of the mould in pouring). Every method also got some limitations, being the restricted length of the bars, the requirement of only using same-shaped building blocks and to be able to de-construct the mould withouth destroying it and without moving your model. My method of choice was pouring as I never did it befor and it sounded really intersting, because you are quite unlimited in terms of form and dimension of your model.