Hair Spikes Cattail Turkeyfoot

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Hair Spikes Cattail Turkeyfoot

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2011

Hair, Spikes, Cattail, and Turkeyfoot seeks to discover new construction drawing conventions by exploring the oral tradition of thatching alongside the representational demands of digital fabrication. By devising a representational convention for hard to describe labor practices and complicated sequences of operations, the research was conducted in the design and assembly of a temporary thatch pavilion. The design of this project has a twofold agenda: 1) to investigate, with the use of digital technology, the design and fabrication of strategic components that would bundle and organize soft organic matter into structure, and 2) to design a method of representation that redefines the construction set as a sequence of operations rather than an illustration of finished assemblies.The approach of the project involved research of vernacular thatch structures in temperate and tropical climates, the guidance of a Master Thatcher in the techniques of thatching, the use of digital fabrication to create a unitized system of stackable thatch, all of which was facilitated by different representational conventions. Oral traditions often involve intricate techniques that are difficult to represent and are therefore seldom documented. Digitally fabricated designs catalogue an array of the produced parts, but lack thorough explanation in the assembly of the components. Hair, Spikes, Cattail, and Turkeyfoot combines two chronologically disparate methods of construction to explore the role of sequence-based drawings as a necessary convention in current architectural practice.

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Hair Spikes Cattail Turkeyfoot

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