We're finally done!!

Our final panel! Sorry it's so small, but click on the image for a better view.





And our final model! We made two skins: one that was clear acrylic to show the transparent uncrumpled condition and one our of white museum board to show the crumpled condition. We think it turned out pretty well!








Crit went really well and we are gearing up for Graduation weekend. We had a good time with this challenging project, thanks for checking out our blog!

--Jess and Allen

Almost there!!

We're on the final stretch! These are our almost-final drawings that should be about ready for final crit (next Friday), so now we're mainly going to focus on finishing our physical model. It's going pretty well so far, and we're going to work in studio today so we should be in pretty good shape!











Will update soon with more physical model info.

And Final-ish Model

So we've started fabricating/assembling our final model. Of which, at the moment, we only have a couple parts so far. First is the third floor slab.




















Here's the building's skin.

We'll be sure to update as we progress with the model.

Final-ish Drawings

We're starting to finalize our ideas and figuring out all the details, so here are the drawings showing all the new developments! We'll be updating with our final drawings, last sketch models and the final pieces of our project!

New Study Model!

So we've taken a different route with the skin; we've simplified it. Again, to make sure it works, we've come up with another physical study model. It works for the most part but there may still be a few kinks to work out. As you can see in the first picture, it's the skin in its most orthogonal form, and when the front facade is pulled backwards, much of the southern portion of the building then "crumples" including the south and west facades and the roof.

Finally.. some Grasshopper!

So we've been saying along that we're working on our arduinos and Grasshopper, but we have yet to really fully explore the options for modeling our building concept. At last, a video of our Grasshopper/Rhino model! I did not have it hooked up to the arduino (though it does work, with just the push of a button!) so I was just using a number slider to create the rotational motion of the main columns. This is just the start; more floor slab and facade to be added later. Enjoy!

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Cool Folded Building

Allen just found a really neat example of a building that has crumpled floors similar to ours (though it doesn't move!) but it makes some pretty interesting programs out of the forms generated by the crumpled floors. Check it out Here!