Sunday, June 28, 2009

Research Through Making finds a site

We have been working on the Research Through Making Grant for about a month. Numerous models and scripts have been developed as a means of creating form from a series of laser-cut, sheet metal cone like elements. To get the project out of the workshop and into the world, we started looking into potential sites. We worked with the U of M Arboretum and Botanical Garden to identify sites that would satisfy their goals and ours. Below are the final images of the agreed-upon construction site. We hope to begin installation in about a month.


Entrance from the street




Entry to the Pavilion



Pavilion from landscape



Pavilion from the back side



Inside the pavilion



Process models

2 comments:

James said...

how did you physically model the conical modules?

ParaMod.net said...

The model is built using a thin white plastic sheet material called Yupo (glued with super glue). It is fully recyclable. All the shapes are laser cut directly from the rhino digital model.