ART LABTtm

Monday, April 30, 2012

Research Questions

How can we create an intervention that responds to the environmental element on site?
What can the existing site offer us in terms of interior perception and exterior perception at the 3 different levels of the site?
How can availability of material start to inform our design outcome? I.e. Price, quality, quantity.
How can we give people the opportunity to manipulate the surfaces whilst maintaining the form/characteristics of the intention?
How will the existing conditions of the site changed or influenced the intervention details?

The ideas behind our design entail to respond to the activity of motion within the site. The idea of motion includes the activities of people’s movements on site and exterior elements such as wind and rain. The object, like our previous model, is designed to curve into itself, encasing a drooping membrane which can be obstructed and moved by occupants within the structure. We also hope to gain different perceptions of the structure in relationship to the space occupied within and out. The structure also needs to be manipulated and tested by people on site and from the exterior elements of the environment. The intention of the teardrop membrane is that it can be filled from the top with water, rubbish or external objects, which transforms the tear to either fill and expand or increasingly weigh it down, this allows for an interior exterior transformation of the object. In regards to responding to the environmental elements of the site the outer structure will be encased with an overlapping scaled effect of plastic plates, this in turn will lift to the varying strengths of wind, allowing for light to fill and litter the interior of the membrane. Rain will be deflected from the plastic plates and sound of rain drops should be enhanced within the structure.

Materiality: Venetian blinds to support the outer structure
Plastic plates
2 way lycra

Scales - Exterior Skin Detail

Scales - Exterior Skin Detail. An example of how we could start to connect a series of plates to construct a responsive exterior skin.

Plate Extension

The plates on the exterior will stand up via connecting string, similar to the Millwaukee Art Museum. Small skewers attached to the plates could replecate the effect of the UK pavillion, though they could be manipulated, up and down through human intervention happening within the pod.