Some Suggestions from the Road...

A few comments/suggestions...

The material testing looks very good, I am interested to see how changing the profiles or thickness affects the 'location' of the twisting along a length and how that might be utilized to create visual/lighting effects. See the images below.

Also, with that in mind, I am interested to start studying material efficiency as

it pertains to cut patterns on our sheets of ply. (we have 30 sheets of 1800X900 5.5mm sheets already ordered)

Using parametric or scripting techniques to link the cut sheets to a material assembly would be interesting to study as a way to limit waste, which is typically a huge when using these types of operations. I am very interested in generating as little waste as possible.

From what I have seen so far, and knowing the amount of time we will have to produce this,

we should be thinking minimally about the mass of connections, assemblies, and 'walls' we produce. What would be the minimum we might need to define the small space of a Tea House? Looking at what has been proposed, the stacked sine curves look interesting and the nested C-Shape plans seem to produce an interesting spatial flow.

I am continuing to travel until Friday and then I leave for Tokyo Saturday, I am looking forward to seeing everyone there. In my experience with these types of workshops there will be a lot of decisions made while manufacturing and assembling once we are all together. In my opinion the pieces and method of assembly are most important, followed by overall shape and size. Once we have a technique and cut pieces that will go together repetitively we can configure the elements in several ways through different ways of putting them together.

A last note, I have included a couple sketches to both understand the cut sheet link to the produced element and how that might alter the effects. This could also work with the stacked sine curve elements potentially. (The sketch of the variations is greatly exaggerated to show difference more than design intention, but hints at how the variation could be graduated to smoothly transition lighting and visual effects)