Selena Yang
Overview
4 week project
For my spatial dynamics class Freshman Year. As an exercise to explore conceptual making and form.
This is an architectural model designed for a post-apocalyptic situation when the glaciers melt. This is a collapsible city designed to transform into a floating moving structure powered by the motion of waves. The units may twist and combine to form a flexagon shape. The units contain elements of the different habitats - tundra, rainforest, chaparral- so that humans can experience nature even when it no longer exists.
End Result
I decided to choreograph this work as a performance piece, having my classmates participate further engage the audience.
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This is a video from my professor's Instagram demonstrating the mechanical structure of the shape and how it harvests energy from the waves of the ocean.
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Shaved blue foam resting beneath it represents the melting glaciers. While my classmates undulate blue paper, representing the ocean.
Exploring The Shape
I first explored the shape through sketches - trying to find ways to collapse the shape while also figuring out the connection points.
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Then I explored through models, using foam balls as my connection points. As seen in the videos below.
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