Jeffrey Sipprell

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October 20, 2005

Development of the Manifold

Our development of the construct for our plastic fabrication seminar has focused on connections for the last couple of weeks - particularly types of connections that would be found in the natural world. So instead of glued butt joints, we're looking at friction fits, pressure caps, pin connection and corrugation.

The team has been focusing on the area of the flower between the petal and the ovary sac - with a particular area of interest in how spatial voids are created between these different layers - something that is not common in the other flower examples. Which in the end is probably going to push us into a more effects treatment of the final construct that one based on physics and structure. Laminations, voids, and light could possibly be used to create a pretty rich and nuanced final model.

In the meantime, here are some images of a few discrete connection conditions that we might use. This week we've been introduced to the mill and vacuum former so very soon I'll have some pictures of some initial fabrication studies.

Pressure Cap 1
Pressure Cap 2
Petal Study
Pin Connection

Posted by jsipprell at October 20, 2005 11:20 AM

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