Exhibition: FLUX ARCHT-509-01
Andre Caradec / Kory Bieg W 9:00 – 3:00 SANF 141
Prerequisite: Junior Standing or above
The goal of this interdisciplinary studio will be to digitally fabricate and install the international design
exhibition “FLUX”. Students will be exposed to digital milling techniques and fabrication procedures that
will translate design work, produced in the previous semester, into an efficient building system.
“FLUX” will be the first exhibition on the West Coast to focus on the use of computational techniques such
as parametric modeling and scripting within the architectural field. It will consist of drawings, models, and
computational code used in the development of the projects and will include designs from well-established
firms such as Foster & Partners, Arup, and Zaha Hadid, and emerging practices such as Aranda/Lasch and

So… I was looking at our module last night and I remembered that last year, when we studied structure, there was this type of connection, a pin connection, the weakest one. Coincidentally, today was Thursday, structure day, so me and Madeline went on and asked our structure teacher to give us his critique. He was very nice and kind and this is what he said:

1. He liked our thingy. He liked that it moves and stucks the way it does ( it was before I told him that this is exactly where our problems are).

2. He suggested to reinforce that weakest point with something else, another module, a weird one, for example. Or a cube, a parallelogram, a rod,  etc.

3. We can thread our modules with rod, or system of rods.

4. We can use suspension cables to create such net that supports our system from collapsing.

5. Another suggestion, cast a module from, say, gypsum, and, as connecting element use flexible material which won’t brake.

5. He also gave an idea of changing shape a little bid by cutting of acute angles of the module and putting flat platform there ( I am attaching a picture of his diagram here). That will be really strong!

Hope the ideas will be helpful, make us think outside our thoroughly explored circle.

Team #4 guys, I have maybe dozen of your pictures, I can give you them, I am too lazy to post. And you are still a competition, after all

I am uploading pictures from the review. In the name there is day when they were taken, our team number and picture number (the last for computer convenience).