MICKEY

The construction of the library on the granite hilltops of rio was met with violent resistance from the church, slandering the project as a modern "babel", reaching toward the "skies of time". Protests around the building created a moral dilemma for the construction workers who laboured on its massive presence. None of the them doubted its futility, to be able to stand against time, but they carried on anyway, for they also felt the need to attempt it - a feeling which they held in their their stomach but did not voice, a human need to have mattered, to be remembered. This they carried within them, and with their hands built the archive with a sudden inexplicable urgency, through sunshine, through rain, through the friscalating dusklight. 

the surfaces which track the ages of time, of movement and memory

three view of the same space over time. 

an unnesseccarily pretty version of a model photo which i used to express stacking logic in the TS. 

And I'll buy you both a coffee...

top intersection with wall. Ignore the wierd jutting out plate.

Below is the intersection with the core showing the interconnected cavities. 

The latest model is more developed with interior surfaces and carbon fibre tension lines. 

It has also been adjusted to be suitable in terms of the actual angles of circulation and scale etc. 

above is part of what will be a manufacturing series showing the mark lines that need to be milled into the granite in the CAD CAM file so that the constuction team can accurtately position each stack. It is also the file for the lazer cut model. 

Using Tsplines I am able to have accurate control over the resulting surface geometry so that I can match it to the model testing studies and tensile behavior. This model is then used to create the interior stacked granite slabs so that they can also follow the geometry of the fabric more closely. 

Thats the thinking anyway. 

Will try to blog again later tonight with the actual model.  

among other things that are also in progress. you know me, five things at once. 

all three of these broke.

the technique is expensive but is ideal for on bespoke applications such as the skinning of the beams. 

The manufacturing process is usually designed for high performance sails, and therefore can handle complex double curves. But there is also a high potential for use is tension structures. 

The synthetic fibers: carbon, polyester and aramid, are incredibly strong and can be layered in such a way as not create non-uniform thickness and strength in the fabric depending on the application. 

somethin wierd gong on with the lines, this is not the final layout.