comment from Keisuke Toyoda: very nicely poetic! I can see the intricate and lacy quality of structure will be beautiful while keeping an unexpected airy feeling. The structure/compositional system is very much fitting with the given materiality (plywood t=6mm).
My concern on this proposal is it seems quite rigid in potential transformability. The template and cutting profile is all the way same from top to tobbom, therefore, despite the system actually allows replacement of layers, that won't give any different composition/space. Since CNC router won't care if all the template is same or all different, and the theme is "transformability", why not seeking slightly different cutting template for different layers. For example, simply template can morph as it ascend/descend, or some layer would have cut window or entrance, etc. Even though I understand the aesthetic preference of being minimal, I would think it is more fruitful and provocative to seek more variation and coordination of different template composing various structure, in this given workshop. Or, you can extend more rooms horizontally using more of the similar unit - in theory, it can spread endlessly creating internal maze.
The design you have proposed is absolutely doable with the 6mm plywood and am really glad to see you are using the material without any waste.
The improvement you could make as Keisuke said is to consider about how you could control the shape in terms of transformation using the same construction method. Do all the templates for the cutting have to be in same size? Could it be changed then what would be the constraint for that? Even just displacing each layer a little could cause some transformation effect.
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comment from Keisuke Toyoda:
very nicely poetic! I can see the intricate and lacy quality of structure will be beautiful while keeping an unexpected airy feeling. The structure/compositional system is very much fitting with the given materiality (plywood t=6mm).
My concern on this proposal is it seems quite rigid in potential transformability. The template and cutting profile is all the way same from top to tobbom, therefore, despite the system actually allows replacement of layers, that won't give any different composition/space. Since CNC router won't care if all the template is same or all different, and the theme is "transformability", why not seeking slightly different cutting template for different layers. For example, simply template can morph as it ascend/descend, or some layer would have cut window or entrance, etc. Even though I understand the aesthetic preference of being minimal, I would think it is more fruitful and provocative to seek more variation and coordination of different template composing various structure, in this given workshop. Or, you can extend more rooms horizontally using more of the similar unit - in theory, it can spread endlessly creating internal maze.
The design you have proposed is absolutely doable with the 6mm plywood and am really glad to see you are using the material without any waste.
The improvement you could make as Keisuke said is to consider about how you could control the shape in terms of transformation using the same construction method. Do all the templates for the cutting have to be in same size? Could it be changed then what would be the constraint for that? Even just displacing each layer a little could cause some transformation effect.
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