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Tuesday 16 April 2013
Sunday 14 April 2013
Kimura's Bat Cave: tangling with steel cable
Can the staircase be supported by tensile steel and also suspend the workshop floor of Kimura?
In keeping with the geometry of Stradivari's studio pad, the frame supporting Kimura's workshop floor follows a geometry of threes, 120 Degrees.
The Steel wire suspending the entire subterranean structure are in increments of 30 degrees like hours on a clock face. This is also divisible by three, producing the radial angles of the infrastructure of the workshop floor.
In keeping with the geometry of Stradivari's studio pad, the frame supporting Kimura's workshop floor follows a geometry of threes, 120 Degrees.
The Steel wire suspending the entire subterranean structure are in increments of 30 degrees like hours on a clock face. This is also divisible by three, producing the radial angles of the infrastructure of the workshop floor.
Braided steel cable, staircase and a big tangle
Can the staircase be supported by tensile steel and also suspend the workshop floor of Kimura?
Concept sketches for Stradivari and Kimura
Resolving the connection between Stradivari's above ground, lily-pad like structure and Kimura's bat-cave-esque subterranean workshop has presented a significant challenge.
I have been thinking about the concept that the "flute" leading upwards to Stradivari's studio exists in a state of tension. That is to say the "pad" shapes studio atop the flute stem is somehow pulling the structure up, similar to the way a lily pad is buoyant and keeps it's stem in a state of tension.
Inversely, Kimura's underground workshop is suspended from the Datum, hanging within the cavern globe.
I like the idea that the datum represents a point of anchor for the opposite structures. Stradivari's studio "pulling" up and Kimura's workshop "hanging" down from a central coordinate at the datum.
I have been thinking about the concept that the "flute" leading upwards to Stradivari's studio exists in a state of tension. That is to say the "pad" shapes studio atop the flute stem is somehow pulling the structure up, similar to the way a lily pad is buoyant and keeps it's stem in a state of tension.
Inversely, Kimura's underground workshop is suspended from the Datum, hanging within the cavern globe.
I like the idea that the datum represents a point of anchor for the opposite structures. Stradivari's studio "pulling" up and Kimura's workshop "hanging" down from a central coordinate at the datum.
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