Abstract

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