Monday, March 7, 2011

Joint development



1 comment:

toyoda_noiz said...

Ummm. It looks great as 3D composition, but at the same time, it seems not very feasible as a structural system in this way...

First, some parts of the remaining part of horizontal plywood seems too thin to be sustainable structure - the spacing shall be carefully coordinated.

Second, the vertical load transferred horizontally too often and too far - almost no vertical force transfer without loosing the efficiency at the horizontal plywood, which practically shall not work as beans. If the vertical load transferred too far among balls (which works as short columns to convey vertical load), the overall structure will sunk in each layer significantly. Unless this problem can be resolved by hole/ball arrangement, I am quite skeptical that this system can really hold a human height structure all made by t=9mm plywood - imagine 10 sheet of plywood amount of load being held by horizontally arranged t=9mm plywood sheet at the bottom (it will bend like paper, and may just break eventually).