Underlying Program Goals:

// lead students in HANDS-ON construction combined with a design studio education in order to discover new intersections between design and fabrication.


// foster a COLLABORATIVE studio environment such that students engage more fully in a dialogue with their peers, practitioners, context and communities.


// implement architecture, design and the making of space to catalyze POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGE and stewardship of our built environment.

June 4, 2009

Team B workflow

FORM AND SHAPE:
We have decided to deploy the canopy in two phass on both sites. A day configuration (labeled the 'infinity' shape) and a night configuration ('star' shape). The daytime configuration will allow for inhbitation of the volume created by the canopy, while the night configuration transforms the canopy into a lantern sculpture. mesh will be incorperated in both phases.

In Roxbury, we will use our original siting and fabricate the canopy with tails large enough to fully reach the extents of the external connections. In the alley, we will flip the configuration 90 degrees vertically (such that the star shape is in plan, and one walks under it to observe the shape).

PRODUCTION AND SCALE:
We have elected to produce two square canopies using the scheme 3 stiching scheme (with elongated tails). The size of the canopy is dependent on a stretch factor test to be done in field with the 10x10 mock-up canopies.


WORKFLOW:
  • Terry will begin to produce a construction documents, detailing each patterned component with appropriate dimensions for fabrication.
  • we need a 2' cube mock up with the stiching pattern. this will allow us to test multiple ring points, the stiching, and mesh integration studies.
  • we need to test the flex ring concept in full scale.
  • we need to seriously mock up a working light integration.

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Nomadic Canopies, mock-up session - Spring '09

Frederick Douglass Peace Park Amphitheater, rendering - Spring'08