Pending Structures
Valentin Bontjes Van Beek


Intermediate - Spring 2010


37 First Floor Open Room
Mondays, 2-5pm


 

Where lie_(s) the detail? Is there beauty in the tight fit? We will design and build structures at a 1:1 scale and deploy them in a public area of the AA. The constructions will address sculptural, utilitarian and structural qualities to challenge the permeability and inhabitation of a space within a space. The Pending Structure will be of a parasitic nature, opportunistic but not hostile.

 

We will design in model and only use drawings to instruct cutting devices (laser cutter, CNC milling). Our preferred construction material is 12mm ply wood. The final structure should be considerably light and fabricated only on the CNC mill. Each piece is pre-cut, not larger then a man can carry. The jointing technique is biscuit joining and where needed self-driving screws. Depending on this year's CNC demand we will take a trip to Hooke Park to fabricate our pieces.

 

The Pending Structure should be beautiful and consider issues of independence and integration in to a space -a measured ratio of directionality and porosity.

 

Every other session will start with a short seminar supporting the design and construction process. This year’s course will collaborate with the Light-Skins course.

 

Course
Student: Nicholette Chan & Elina Safarova
  • Session 1: Monday 18th Jan:
  • -The Screen

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  • Session 2: Monday 25th Jan:
  • -Modelling techniques

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  • Session 3: Monday 1st Feb:
  • -Site

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  • Session 4: Monday 8th Feb:
  • -Surface, signage, lighting

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  • Session 5: Monday 15th Feb:
  • -Fabrication

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  • Session 6: Monday 22nd Feb:
  • -Fabrication

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  • Session 7: Monday 1st Mar:
  • -Fabrication

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  • Session 8: Monday 8th Mar:
  • -Course Submission

  • Enrolled Students
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  • Kornkris Win Assakul

    Raha Farazmand

    Thomas Fox

    Summer Saud Islam

    Kitae Kang

    Georges Massoud

    Antonis Romao Papamichael

    Wataru Sawada

    Timothy Simonds

    Jacob Olle Wiklander

    Lily Wong

    Huida Xia

     

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