Quilting

Practice for Project #2

Tree Roots Emerge from the Ceiling in an Installation by Giuseppe Licari

Organic chandeliers featuring prickly roots of trees.

The relationship between humankind and nature, growth and decay are central themes in Licari’s work.
These structures reminded me of Aurora Robson's work with recyclables.

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Woods Bagot: KIOSC Green School in Victoria, Australia

The design is part of a specific effort to integrate eco-friendly construction methods in accord with the environmentally responsible 'technical and further education' (TAFE) curriculum taught
inside the classroom. This building reminded me of our current serial planes project, as well as Zaha Hadid's work.

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The Picnic by Raw Edges

Textile installation mad of 1500 kvadrat straps.

The framework was specially conceived to allow visitors to engage with the textile samples in a more interactive way, offering them a closer look at the selection. it was designed in a way to recreate the scene of a picnic.
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Here is there design process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outline

An architectonic structure as a “container”

                Container- an object that can be used to hold or transport something else

A large metal box of a standard design and size used for the transportation of goods by road, rail, sea, or air: a container ship

A receptacle, vessel, canister, can, box, holder, repository

Zaha Hadid

                Designer and architect: serial planes

Aurora Robson

                Painter and sculptor: repurposed plastic materials

Biomorphic Forms

                A decorative for or object based on or resembling a living organism

                A graphic representation of an organism generated on a computer, used to model evolution

Three dimensional organizing principles

                Gravity and weight

                Proximity and similarity

                Rhythm

                Beginnings, endings and connections

                Scale and context

                Surface texture

                Value

                Radiation and movement

                Implied line and explicit line

                Negative and positive space

                Structure and weight

 

Vertical Serial Planes

Right Angle Serial Planes

Horizontal Serial Planes

Pentateuque by Fabien Merelle

Merelle uses tools of humor, storytelling and whimsy to create his pieces.

This piece relating to his childhood.

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'59 Steps to Air by Tomas Saraceno

This work is design to float solely on solar power, the sun.

It is made out of trash bags, transparent tape, rope, bicycle wheels and other flotsam jetsam materials to fabricate the structure.

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Polar Array Dome Stool by Studio Toer

 

The Polar Array Dome Stool by Studio Toer is made out of eighty curved steel rods and beech wood.

The arrangement creates a polar array.

This structure creates a strong shape for the sitter to sit on.

It also makes the sitter look like they are sitting on air.

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Progress on Relief Project

Julia an I are starting to assemble our boxes with round head fasteners and binder clips.

Relief Project Progress

Today Julia and I folded all 72 of our black boxes for our chess board.
We have completed all 144 black and white boxes and now we are beginning to brainstorm ideas for our chess pieces.

'80 Sheets of Mountains' by Nendo

 

I was looking around on designboom.com, and I found this sculpture called '80 Sheets of Mountains' by Nendo, at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair 2013. It is made out of laser-cut and stretched 80 sheets of 5mm plastic foam board. Nendo was inspired by snow-capped mountains. This caught my eye because it reminded me of our current project.

 

Here are more images of the structure.

 

 

 

Here is the designer himself, Nendo.

 

 

 

 

 

Progress on Relief Design

Julia and I have begun making our origami boxes for our chess board. We have to make 144 boxes total; 72 white and 72 black.
Here are the different stages of the process.

Inspiration for Relief Design

Julia and I have decided to make a chess set out of origami boxes. However, we are going to put a spin on the typical flat board and have some of the rows elevated.

Here are some chess sets that we found inspiration from.