petra jarolimova_study5_burning

petra jarolimova_study4_burning

petra jarolimova_study3_burning

petra jarolimova_study2_dyeing

petra jarolimova_study1_burning

Lena Fan

Untitled from Irene Urmeneta on Vimeo.

WaterJet from Irene Urmeneta on Vimeo.

melissa goldman_test 4B

Latex Glove in Rotational Molder

melissa goldman_test 4A

Using Roll-E, the rotational molder to create hollow concrete casts. (Rockite)

Test A: The Coke Bottle (next time I'm going to make my own mold...I was impatient.)

melissa goldman_test 3

Failed attempt at making a thin ribbon of concrete. I had omitted the fabric bag I had in test 2 and used fingers of a latex glove for my inflatable formwork. I used a very dry mix, but everything just molded together.

Sketches trying to figure out how to make the formwork...

Caren Faye - Test 5

another attempt at a clear plastic stitched together mold.

Study 2: Cavernous Coditions Attempt 3 (K Malishewsky)

For the third attempt, I wanted to push the cavernous condition to one that would move through the block, like worm holes. I glued a few water balloons to the inside of the mold and sprayed the whole thing with pam, which I think caused problems because the concrete was able to get under the glue. I was able to make a few areas where the holes wormed through and penetrate the block.

Study 2: Cavernous Coditions Attempt 2 (K Malishewsky)

For my second attempt, I wanted to include a little bit of my light study into this attempt and have the "cave" penetrate the entirety of the block, creating a hole in the bottom. To do this, I hot glued the water balloon to the bottom of my mold, which working fairly well. Since the balloon was in the mold before I started to pour, by happy chance the concrete stuck to the side of the balloon and created a thing shell.

Study 2: Cavernous Coditions Attempt 1 (K Malishewsky)

Simply used a water ballon to try to create a cave-like condition.

Study 1: Light 2nd attempt (K Malishewsky)

For my second attempt (same week), I sprayed the plastic with pam to try and remove the dowels, which worked a little better, but most of them were still stuck. I also tried to remove them before the concrete was totally set. Again, the plastic helped illuminate the light much better than the holes. I cut the tops off of the dowels to make the plastic flush with the concrete

Study 1: Light (K Malishewsky)

This study was to try to allow light through the concrete. My intention was to make holes in the tile for light, but when, by mistake, the plasitc dowels cured into the concrete, it ended up capturing the light much better then the empty holes.

lisaekle 4 compression

Layering bubble wrap with concrete, the concrete tile can compress under force:

lisaekle 3 movement

As the concrete cured, I inserted wires into the tubes to shift the concrete. The cracks began appearing in 10 minutes using rapidset concrete.

lisaekle 2 color

I added green concrete pigment incrementally to the concrete mixture after each pour in order to create a gradient. The texture in the 1st image is a result of always pouring along the same side of the form.

This first color test was using fabric dye. A layer of red dye in the bottom of the form was pushed to the surface once the concrete was poured in. The wood was soaked in the dye to test if the concrete would pull any color from the saturated pieces.

lisaekle 1 texture & form

Testing the ability of the concrete to pick up intricate surfaces and forms, I used flexible basswood (that I later peeled off the concrete) to create these shapes.

Project TS weeks1-5 (BrianBrush)

Project TS
Form/Performance/Footing

This project investigates the design of structural concrete footings for a non-standard geometry, wood pavilion. The emphasis of the concrete investigations will at first be on developing a formal prototype in concrete mass performing as concrete "shoes" for the pavilion elements. Following formal investigation, concrete mix, texture, color, as well as reinforcing will be tested.
















Weeks 1-5 beginning formal development of footing, tests in rockite














A "projecting" footing mockup where wooden elements would attach along the upper surface of the footing which simultaneously projects above the ground plane.




























First mold (fail) of a sub-surface footing mockup printed on the ZCorp 3D Printer. A couple inverted normals at the lower right corner flipped the solid inside/out forcing a non-thickness element to leave a hole in the mold. The branching elements shown are positives of the wooden elements that would penetrate the footing.














Successful sub-surface footing mockup cast into a 3D printed mold. No mold release was used. Holes were "drilled" out.














Next tests will play with varying the top surface of the footing so that it is more rounded. Also, the "shoe" penetrations will be opened up to the top surface rather than completely embedded beneath the top (testing tolerance for movement)