Idea Development

I finally was able to develop my ideas further, keeping in mind the concept of "Transformation". I tried to use other's ideas and see how they could be combined with my ideas to form something new. I am most interested in some type of 'hinged' system that can expand and contract like a fan, but am open to other ideas.

I would like to explore further how we can associated different parameters such as width of wood and twisting in a grasshopper definition so that we might be able to use 'tapered' pieces that will twist at different rates down their length. The testing was done using Luaun plywood, but I now see that we will be using Japanese Sheen plywood, so hopefully it will have similar or better characteristics.

Also, I think it will be important to keep in mind the material limits - we only have 30 sheets of plywood - but also the length of the members we are designing... so we will need to understand this when we are deciding on the dimensions of the tea house... we may want to minimize joints.