OB_5.4

Very quickly I saw that cutting it off made the spaces very unstable. Cutting the wires took them out of the tension created by the box so  I had to go back to make the object stable.

Being out the box the object reads completely differently. Some parts aren't as successful as they were inside the box, but overall it has a really interesting relationship with the ground.

 

Gravity wants to pull the object down as the wires seem to barely hold it together, but that tension, between it falling apart/ breaking and it somehow holding itself together, makes this experiment successful.

Although I liked the outcome of the process I decided to proceed with the object inside the box. The fact that most of the original qualities of the object were lost when cut puts less importance on the box and the wire process.

The next step is to explore these spaces in drawing, with the following goals in mind:

• Finding a "ground" line within the box.
• Start thinking about manipulating the box itself so its not simply a shell and rather interacts with whats going on inside.
• Taking out some of the "excess" wires that crowd spaces.
• Think about cutting certain wires so they switch to being in compression( column-like) rather than all in tension.

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OB_5.3

The Process____

This is the process of taking the object out of the box(vertical)



OB_5.2

_____Inside or outside of the box??

I face the dilemma of leaving the created structure inside the context of the box or taking it out and seeing how it interacts with the ground and a different context( much like the first experiment where I cut all the wires off).

Both approaches seem appropriate, for one the project/ concept is "the box" so leaving it inside makes sense. However, the idea of cutting it out is intriguing___making this box more of a machine that just produces these spaces and "spits" them out.

Since I have two boxes__ I'll  try both: Leave the horizontal in the box and cut the vertical design.

OB_5.2

So I decided to work with the plan and the section at the same time, placing both the original plans and sections and collaged versions on the sides of the boxes.

To decide where the wires were going to pierce the box I came up with a system of coordinates. I placed 15 points on all the original drawings so that even the collaged images had the same points. By numbering all the points I simply matched the numbers from the original plan to the number on the collage plan and the same for the section.





So the test tube looks like this___

I made two boxes: One to be built vertical (sectionally) the other to be built horizontally (plan)

I wanted to see how the orientation was going to affect the design.

 

I was finally ready to start the design process: placing planes inside the box within the boundaries of the established structure (wires).

This is the outcome____