February 2012 Archives

so maybe even though I am not using hydraulics i can still incorporate the basement idea...

by the way I tried to think of different ways to make the cubes going above the frame possible...

It doesn't seem possible..., and if it is possible, it is getting very complicated... i talked to john noel again about that and he thinks the cubes need not move up to the truss.  The cubes can still move from ground level up to frame level, but use gantry crane cable system instead of hydraulics.

and to me it is fine that the cubes do not move up to the trust, because I just have an idea of what else can happen at that level, which i think will be interesting (both in terms of TS and project narrative)... will blog more later with the axo drawing (which is aimed to be done by tomorrow) later in the evening.

not working because the vent is overlapping the prison cell wall ...

OPTION 2

this option seems fine, but...

if the cube rotates,

the ventilation duct cannot match and connect with the fixed outlet on the frames...

i.e. NOT WORKING

OPTION 3

still seems fine at the moment

I was trying to constrain myself to only use 9 cubes to create all the scenes required within the prison.  However, since I m only allowing rotation of the cubes in on 1 axis, i.e. I cannot utilise all the 6 surfaces of each cubes.

So while the suspending frame can still accommodate 9 cubes at a time, the whole prison is now constructed with more than 9 cubes, where some of the cubes may have to move downward to the "waiting bay" when not used in the narrative.

Here's some configuration that I have been sketching:

(it is slightly bothering me as they now look a bit like PV stuff.....even tho the argument here is completely non PV related)

Also, the red lines shows the water network.

Will try to have most of the other configuration figured out and can then concentrate more on TS tomorrow... 

here's a section of the beam cutting through the water inlet valve system...

also, I am trying to develop the intricate 3d frame (ventilation) within each frame...I know what's shown here is not appealing at all but I will make it better...

here are some of the reference that I have been looking at:

NASA docking system - where mechanical and structural support is provided through the rim

and for the electric power connection between the cube and the frame, I think the inductive charging of electric toothbrushes maybe useful...

bumper mechanism of the structure and electric power connection:

rearranging and exchanging of contents between different frames...

connections outside the 3d cubes... 

Also, I am thinking of something like this too...but this doesn't have anything to do with the frame-gutter TS idea...this is more like a distortion...(ref Eisenmen's Axonometric models)

 

TS narrative: (from 2d to 2.5d to 3d)

Studio narrative: (from Hikikomori to school to architect to prison)

- drawing up some more precedents (v slow.....)

- drawing up one of the TS moments in the gutter space (see below).  still too simple at the moment... but I showed Javier and Christina on tuesday and today, they both think this is an interesting moment to look at, still a lot of detail and technicality missing....

- another TS moment, the "shifting room" was considered far too simple and straight forward to be included into TS....so instead of spending time drawing it up, 

- i will try to develop the TS narrative (i.e. the white gutter space) as much as possible so there are more different moments to pick....

URGHHHHHH....

ruled surface at fold-down position for water to channel

ruled surface at fold-up position to connect the spaces from 2 comic frames...(still not technical at all...)