Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Insight of Landscape Architecture

To see placement, form, identity as intentional.

Give weight to each concrete arrangement of roots-on-rocks, moss&waterfall, blooming flowers and looming trees.

To swim in these origami arrangements of order without order: perfect, designed for some terrible purpose, full of trapdoors and hidden keys, rooms too big and too small and just right for humans.
To witness and accept and honor both what is done at the mercy of nature (man-made) and what is nature-made.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Architecture


I've been creating maximal strength sculptures using string dipped in glue. I tie the strings into a network and hang them from the underside of a table. It stretches into a perfect parabola that redistributes the weight equally onto all supports. This is a good tool to design buildings that use a minimum amount of materials while maximizing space. The glued strings are not very strong (you can easily bend them between thumb and forefinger) but because they are in perfect compression (everything in this model is in compression - my explorations of building with tensegrity haven't gone as well) along their length, they do not bend.

Note: because this structure was still wet when turned it over, this picture shows it slightly bent.