Sukkah City - trial and error

I was given a chance to work with THEVERYMANY as an intern on their Sukkah city competition after they had won, the project contained:

49,722 holes

25,000 rivets

10,420 text

5,257 unique parts

120 hours of CNC

60 sheets of walnut veneer

Half of it being coordinated/built by yours truly. ;P

Due to the nature of this type of competition research and development was rushed and the need to produce halted further research time needed to study strengths and weakness of material used "Veneer".

We had divided the Sukkah into several parts for construction purposes. Assembly took place and as we added on layers, as the increase of weight steadily grew we could slowly see the feet buckle. After putting on the second to last part, the feet remained the same and we were confident that the sukkah would last the competition.

The design had succeed in almost every aspect we needed to think about except transportation. The ride on a flatbed truck over Manhattan bridge turned out to be too much for the Sukkah and when it had arrived it had collapsed onto itself.

This was a good lesson to learn but quite a hard one to swallow.

So I'm going to grab a beer see you all again.

THEVERYMANY

Plastic Wall System

A project that my classmates and I put together...it was quite an effort...







We were able to obtain the best of both worlds in this project...the idea of infinite variability through digital methods, A mold that could form any variable and then a quick build system.

White Wall?

A scripting project dealing with 2 variables and 2 directions.







"Come back in a few days and see the Red wall."

Spackle Magic

I have started having issues with Spackling....how troublesome the material assigned to me....I started out forming it through presses, and after seeing a previous example done a year and a half ago I decided to avoid extruding Spackle.

The question that I decided to focus on was "how can Spackle hold light?" (its a window installation after all) I have noticed is that when Spackle is thin enough, it can glow when the light hits it. The light then also shows imperfections in the Spackle compound I have created.

These are the first series of my results.

Spackle Under Natural Light

Spackle On a Lamp

"For more information on what the class and I are working on check out the BLOG!"

2010 American Culture Center

This project is located in Madrid, Spain. Due to its site in a residential environment the program has split vertically opening up a public plaza space in the middle. The space is sandwiched between a gallery space above and auditorium space below. The center has a grand staircase that provides the main vertical circulation. Connected to the center also is a restaurant and a small cafe shop located above it.

But this project has brought up an interesting question, how can we depict cultural aspects in a buidling? (I don't believe red brick and American flags are enough...)

"Another designer can figure out connections after being lectured about it, but how do we achieve the same understanding for people outside the field when were not there to talk about it?"