The Temporal Tenancy installation is a prototype for a rapidly customizable method of making. This method employs robotically hot-wire cut EPS foam blocks with a raceway to allow for post tensioning. These blocks are not permanently fastened together, but rather temporarily compressed by a cable. When the site requires a different function, size, or scale of time, these cables can be released and the blocks will drop with the intention of being recycled and prepared for their next architectural manifestation.
Matter is pleased to announce our Ply Shelves have been awarded both a jury selected and peoples choice AZ Award. To learn more or purchase your own Ply Shelf, visit C.W. Keller Furniture.
The Malleablists (members of the Archiprix International team Malleable Manhattan, lead by Brandon Clifford) have been selected to present their manifesto at the Center for Architecture this Friday, June 8th at 4:30 pm. The Malleablists movement is dedicated to re-imagining the role of the architect in an ever changing society.
(top) rendering by Melanie Hammer | (bottom) detail by Rodrigo Rodrigo García González
This installation is an experiment into rapidly customizable and constructable making. CNC robotically hotwire cut foam building blocks are strung together with cables. These cables are tied off to a foundation and tensioned together to erect the enclosure.
Periscop: Foam Tower has been presented and published at Fabricate 2011 — a digital fabrication conference. ‘FABRICATE: Making Digital Architecture’ , is now available to the public.
