Assignment

We are starting to get some research done which is great. I would like everyone to post their research on the Tea House by Wednesday so we can move to designing! Already some good suggestions being made about direction in terms of how to use the material to scale. Alina, excellent document you emailed out, is it possible to post here so we can track comments?

We should quickly move to the design phase and everyone should post ideas for designs by Sunday night (GMT +5, because thats where I am).

To complete this task is going to involve working simultaneously on the design and with material testing. While individually developing initial design concepts to be posted for Sunday, I would also like the group to undergo a coordinated testing effort.

Ultimately, I would like us to explore the relationship between material and form through patterning and coding. In order to do this we need a general idea or concept of how the material behaves under a variety of conditions. Most importantly under bending and twisting.

We need to organize a spreadsheet and begin testing under very prescriptive conditions such as: 50mm, 75mm, 100 mm,..... wide strips at 1 meter increments when clamped and deflected how far will it bend before breaking? And likewise, what is the amount of twisting that the material can take measured in degrees before breaking.

Developing this empirical data set will help us build limits into our code/equations.

BE SURE TO PHOTOGRAPH THE TESTING PROCEDURES!!

These need not be overly scientific. Simply clamping the material to a table in front of a gridded background and photographing will work as a measure. (Think Myth Busters if you are familiar)

Would someone take the lead in organizing a spread sheet and as a group decide who will tackle what aspects of this sort of material database?

Okay, I am very much looking forward to what everyone has