Wasted pavilion - final stages

25.05.16

During week 11 I worked with a team on finalizing the 'Wasted' pavilion. The pavilion design really benefited from my material test with inner tubes during the week prior and we were able to incorporate them into the physical execution to enhance the overall stability of the structure. I really enjoyed having a physical model to work on as well as digital executions. By helping to build and then having the model in front of me it became a lot easier to envision how the pavilion would work both structurally and aesthetically on a full scale. Overall the designed is pretty well finalized and fits well into the brief and other pavilions that our studio has created. After speaking with Nick I plan to edit the written component of our submission so that it reflects a description of a finished product. The pavilion is really successful and after working on the Wasted brief in earlier stages I'm really happy with how the final result has come together.

Material Experiments

18.05.16

I sourced some materials to experiment with from Bicycle junction in Newtown. The guys in there were great and gave me several inner tubes and tires for free. I found an example of reusing inner tubes on instructables.com which inspired me to cut and weave them into a mat. link - http://www.instructables.com/id/Bike-Tire-Tube-Rug/step5/Weave/

I didn't choose to apply the material to any specific pavilion but in doing so had creative freedom to experiment with it how I wanted. I found the inner tubes to be a more versatile material than the tires themselves and hope that they can be incorporated into and benefit an existing pavilion design.

Materials

12.05.16

Today in studio we separated into 4 focus groups for the pavilions; Structure, Materials, Visualisation and Type.

I joined the Materials group and we discussed what we would look into before meeting up again prior to our next class. We brainstormed materials that could apply to specific pavilions as well as materials that hadn't come up in our processes that we were interested in exploring. I chose to look into reusing and repurposing tires and inner tubes. By discussing different ideas about materials without specifically focusing on a story or pavilion I found it easier to generate ideas about potential for experiments.