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ARCH XXX : Installation
ARCH XXX : Installation
435, North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States
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ARCH XXX : Installation
435, North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, United States
The final form for the ARCH XXX should be based in the form of an arch that would span 30 feet along its longer edge and 15 feet along its shorter edge. This Light weight structure began by understanding the thickness of the vinyl sheets as being weak when in it’s initial format, but when folded into thickened bricks, it allowed for the material to sustain greater compression forces through its built-up cross section. This project also served as a work-flow prototype that incorporated a virtual awareness in a material tectonic. This intelligence came in the form of the cell unit (cube-octahedron) geometry and understanding it’s 3d position in the world and incorporated the vector forces that would subsequently play themselves out on the larger field of the arch. This meant that every component within the set would be different (over 3,000 modules) and the inherit morphology of the thickened brick needed to modulate its shape to perform optimally. In this case, the project allowed us to open up a larger questions about digital fabrication and it’s economy of means of production and installation. The formula used:Prototyped, fabricated and assembled @ Pratt institute, Brooklyn, dismantled, placed in a 14’ U-haul truck, driven 795 miles to Chicago Tribune Building and then reassembled in 12hrs with the help of 6 students
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