eccentric
artifacts
thinking through making
GSAPP Spring 2020: Material Things
Instructor: Josh Jordan
Teaching assistant: Anoushae Eirabie
These artifacts relate to our necessary attachment to materials and material things as designers and refer to the productive cultural institutions that emerge around the act of making.
S.cone: Mixed Primitives
Made of high-density foam scraps found in the shop, the pieces were cut and assembled into a custom stock block for more efficiency in time and material. The mixed primitives are composed of a sphere with 6 cones radiating from the center to create a new composite. The final coating conceals the ways to the mean, alluding to a heavy artifact.
3D Printing Protorype
Elastic Hug: Joint
Starting with Frascari’s proposition that “any architecture element defined as the detail is always a joint.” From there, we open the joint to questions of craft, process, materiality, and critique. The proposed joint system achieves a physical and formal connection between two components: one static and one elastic. The wood elements’ geometry nest on each other while the hidden hardware allows the joint to lock in place.