MICKEY: February 2010 Archives

simple beam will plaster in the morning

By Mickey Kloihofer on February 25, 2010 9:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

fabric material and technique for custom strain patterns

By Mickey Kloihofer on February 18, 2010 9:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I found a material fabrication technique - 3D thermal lamination - that will allow me to design the fabric re-enforcement to follow the stress strain lines of the structural forces.

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.

wip stacking patterns

By Mickey Kloihofer on February 15, 2010 7:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

silo mechanics

By Mickey Kloihofer on February 11, 2010 8:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

white book/ts book page - structural positioning of the valves

By Mickey Kloihofer on February 10, 2010 10:57 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

1 bay of building showing structure and circulation valves

By Mickey Kloihofer on February 9, 2010 11:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Work in progress positioning of the connections

By Mickey Kloihofer on February 8, 2010 10:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Very crude and nowhere near what its gonna look like, but I've started to position the connections first to diagonally, reinforce the structural frame, then, started to connect some of these inward to cross brace the structure inwardly.

The next step is too support, the resulting cantilevels with smaller structural elements

Then Position the Major spaces

Then bring in Light connections from the North.

Then Puncture Holes In the top to create wind flow through to minimize wind pressure

Then create the interior circulation connections.

Then hopefully it will look much more intricate.

the thesis is growing (slowly)

By Mickey Kloihofer on February 1, 2010 6:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Technical Summary

The Technical study has two primary focuses

i) Longevity

ii) Growth

Longevity

The aim of this part of the Technical Report is to understand the structural, material, formal and organizational principles and strategies that that can predetermine a structure intended for Long Timescales. The aim of the project is to execute this agenda with the structual elegance and technological sophistication that befits our technological generation, rather than through mass and bulk. The principles of Longevity are examined through a careful study of historical precedents of buildings which have mainted longevity and those which have failed.

Because of the intention for long timescale, the project must be able to exist without reliance on any materials or technology that do not last for long (such as Glass), or mechanical/technological systems, that can potentially fail. Therefore it must resolve all of its criteria, including lighting, air movement and circulation with only the permanent language of stone and concrete. The project will examine this through the application of Ultra High Performance Concrete and the technoques derived from fabric re-inforced concrete members.

Growth

The technical challenge of concrete is its lack of growth potential. The agenda of this portion of the Technical Study, are

i) to test and understand through scale casting models, the construction process of fabric formed hollow structural tubes which are used as the main structural, circulatory, and light system within the building.

ii) to create through physical test models, astrategy for structural growth of concrete members using fabric formed and fabric re-inforced concrete. Inculding the addition and connection of additional members to existing structures, and the stregthening of existing members.

The Physical testing component of the T.S. will focus on the fabrication of fabric formed AND re-inforced shell concrete structures as a solution to problems in longevity of concrete of the past. The study will build upon the techniques established by Mark West and Lancelot Coar, but will also adapt these techniques to propose a dimension of growth in concrete, which is one of the major limitations of concrete.

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