http://cargocollective.com small batch studios Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:33:26 +0000 http://cargocollective.com en http://cargocollective.com/smallbatch/UCSF-Lifeguard-Shelter http://cargocollective.com/smallbatch/following/smallbatch/UCSF-Lifeguard-Shelter Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:33:26 +0000 small batch studios 833853 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/IMG_7982.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/IMG_7982_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 1.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 1_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 2.JPG" border="0" width="450" height="600" width_o="450" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 2_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 3.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 3_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 4.JPG" border="0" width="450" height="600" width_o="450" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 4_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 9.JPG" border="0" width="450" height="600" width_o="450" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/LIFEGUARD_STAND_06.21.07 - 9_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 1.png" border="0" width="670" height="433" width_o="1236" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 1_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 2.png" border="0" width="670" height="433" width_o="1236" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 2_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 3.png" border="0" width="670" height="433" width_o="1236" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 3_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 4.png" border="0" width="670" height="433" width_o="1236" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 4_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 5.png" border="0" width="670" height="433" width_o="1236" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 5_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 7.png" border="0" width="670" height="433" width_o="1236" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/UCSF-Frame121306 7_o.png" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/exploded_assy.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="536" width_o="750" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833853/exploded_assy_o.jpg" align="left" /> design / (build) On the roof of a new building by Legorreta is a pool for swimming. The setting looks perfect: views of the city and neighborhood, plenty of sun in the sunny Mission Bay micro climate, and the warm colorful solids of the building seem to provide a generous "outdoor room" sense of place. Unexpected, however, was the intense wind funneling around the surrounding buildings into a relentless and frigid chill. Swimmers were comfortable, insulated by the water, but the lifeguards were freezing and extremely uncomfortable. The lifeguard is required to have an unobstructed view of the pool and to sit, comfortably, for hours beside the pool in all weather. Thus the brief is to deliver a shelter which protects the guard from strong and turbulent wind, rain, and sun without creating any visible or physical obstruction. (design) / build The project was concieved as the union of three elements: (1) a structural steel frame; (2) A digitally fabricated aluminum skin; (3) a hand-crafted wood liner. Each of these elements were designed and produced separately according to the logics and requirements of performance. The steel frame was fabricated off-site by a certified welder and to specifications defined by a structural engineer. The completed frame was then installed in place via a crane. The aluminum skin panels were fabricated by a shop with a laser-cutter (5-axis) and precision press brake. The panels were then installed on the frame with adjustable brackets. The wood liner was made of sustainably sourced Ipe hardwood and installed on-site. The wood was custom milled and cut for maximum material savings and wraps from the floor, up the back wall and across the ceiling. team This class and project was led by professors Craig Scott and Andre Caradec. Students involved were: Julie Cloutier, Kenly Lambie, Erik Campbell, Chen Ju Pan, Joyce Hsu, Patrick Flynn, Alecia Geno, Zee Metheny, Misha Packer, Andris Zobs, Morgan Amour, Alex Palecko, Daniel Robb, and myself. http://cargocollective.com/smallbatch/Twisted-bench http://cargocollective.com/smallbatch/following/smallbatch/Twisted-bench Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:17:27 +0000 small batch studios 833819 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/Twist_Bench_photo_2.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/Twist_Bench_photo_2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/_MG_8757.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/_MG_8757_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN2063.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN2063_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN2066.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN2066_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1595.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1595_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1597.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1597_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1602.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1602_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1611.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1611_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN5276.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN5276_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN5284.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN5284_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN5310.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/DSCN5310_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1629.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/IMG_1629_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/Twist_Bench_photo_1.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/Twist_Bench_photo_1_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/Twist_Bench_photo_3.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833819/Twist_Bench_photo_3_o.jpg" align="left" /> location In a museum, where does the building end and furniture begin? Or perhaps more specifically: if a museum's architecture is highly designed for the particulars of the museum's mandate/collection/mission, but still stops short of operating at the scale of the body, how might the furniture for the museum finish the job. Renzo Piano's new building for the California Academy of Sciences provokes many questions and interesting opportunities for the client. Our point of departure began with the Piano's conceit to "lift up a section of the park and embed the building under it." intervention Thus an outdoor bench is conceived as primarily ground which has been lifted up and out of the park, providing an adaptable and multi-functional surface which acts as seating, play-structure, and sculpture. A joint furniture-architecture studio taught by Oblio Jenkins and Donald Fortescue, this project was designed in collaboration with Albert Hsu and Robert Hendrickson http://cargocollective.com/smallbatch/Laminate-Table http://cargocollective.com/smallbatch/following/smallbatch/Laminate-Table Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:46:08 +0000 small batch studios 833715 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/spiral_3d_vray_render2_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="663" width_o="960" height_o="704" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/spiral_3d_vray_render2_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/first strip location top_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="621" width_o="960" height_o="659" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/first strip location top_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/first strip location_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="621" width_o="960" height_o="659" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/first strip location_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0367_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="679" width_o="905" height_o="679" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0367_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0550_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="678" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0550_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0585_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="678" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0585_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0615_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="678" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0615_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0653_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="678" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0653_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0683_8_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="1207" width_o="905" height_o="1207" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/IMG_0683_8_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000889_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="604" width_o="960" height_o="641" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000889_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000891_10_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="1356" width_o="905" height_o="1356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000891_10_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000893_12_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="1356" width_o="905" height_o="1356" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000893_12_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000893.jpg" border="0" width="534" height="800" width_o="534" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000893_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000895_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="604" width_o="960" height_o="641" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833715/P1000895_o.jpg" align="left" /> In search of Free-Form Plywood Development of a digital model for the construction of a thin-shell table base using a inter-leaving method of glue-up based on traditional Norwegian boat-building techniques Project in coordination with Ashley Jameson Eriksmoen http://cargocollective.com/smallbatch/Complex-Corrugation http://cargocollective.com/smallbatch/following/smallbatch/Complex-Corrugation Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:59:47 +0000 small batch studios 833671 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/3561930903_242c311822_b_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="567" width_o="1024" height_o="642" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/3561930903_242c311822_b_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/3562768758_7700384555_b_905.jpg" border="0" width="716" height="1024" width_o="716" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/3562768758_7700384555_b_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (1 of 11).jpg" border="0" width="592" height="800" width_o="592" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (1 of 11)_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (2 of 11)_905.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="799" width_o="800" height_o="799" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (2 of 11)_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (3 of 11)_905.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="487" width_o="800" height_o="487" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (3 of 11)_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (4 of 11).jpg" border="0" width="532" height="800" width_o="532" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (4 of 11)_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img 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src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (8 of 11)_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (9 of 11)_905.jpg" border="0" width="800" height="583" width_o="800" height_o="583" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (9 of 11)_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (10 of 11).jpg" border="0" width="545" height="800" width_o="545" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (10 of 11)_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (11 of 11).jpg" border="0" width="596" height="800" width_o="596" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/CCA_squid_shoot_Med (11 of 11)_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/DSCN0420_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="678" width_o="1280" height_o="960" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/DSCN0420_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/Thesis 043 (1)_905.JPG" border="0" width="905" height="1206" width_o="1944" height_o="2592" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/Thesis 043 (1)_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/Thesis Rendering_905.jpg" border="0" width="905" height="452" width_o="2000" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/54560/833671/Thesis Rendering_o.jpg" align="left" /> to start with... this is my thesis project from the California College of the Arts. Subtitled "A built inquiry into the role of risk and materiality in digital design" it was completed under the direction of Andrew Kudless, Neil Schwatz, and Geneviève L'Heureux. a premise: In Strange Harvest Sam Jacob notes a familiar trope that bears repeating: Design is a language of whose building blocks are how things are made what they are made out of as much as what they look like. Encoded within these choices are cultural attitudes and ideas to the mechanisms that shape society: to technology and its implications. a built inquiry? This thesis takes this notion as a point of departure and places it at the intersection of two contemporary issues in design discourse: The increasing access and adoption of digital tools of production (photoshop, cnc, html) by non-professionals, and the trend towards the integration of design and making as two parts of the same coin - a feedback system that loops a virtuous circle around efficiency, productivity, creativity and material sensitivity. digital design Within the discourse of contemporary architecture, "Digital Fabrication and design" often references techniques and technologies of aerospace, automotive, and marine industries as examples of how we might bring about mass customization and complete differentiation into the field of architecture. and so...? One of the current problems with this direction is related to the ways that these tendencies relate to labor and production. Indeed, while these externalizing tendencies shift the location of craft, skill and involvement in material processes closer to the acts of design, there is a corresponding increase in the distance and mechanisms of mediation between design and the object produced. In short, construction becomes procedural rather than instructional. the goal I wanted to test an alternate direction. Through this project I am looking to propose a method of working where the role of digital processes, design and production are defined by the characteristics of intimacy, engagement, and specificity and thus become inseparable. the idea The intimate relationship between digital work and physical space is connected by the act of making. How we make things is a reflection of our attitudes about materials, technology, and labor. New technology influences our approaches to design and production, promising in turn predictions of precision and certainty in the eventual outcome. Both the modernist kit of parts and the post-modern fascination with text and image imply an erasure of the process of making. These attitudes distance the production of architecture as distinct from design, alienating the designer from the contractor and structuring the project in the design-bid-build sequence, putting both literal and metaphorical distance between the acts of conception and execution. the approach This project seeks to find a balance between material systems, their configuration, and the inhabitants of the space. This means that the roles of material and production methods are brought in as active participants in the design research, both in the formative production of the project and in the final materialization. This question suggests a way of working that folds design and making in on themselves as simultaneous acts. That a design might be approached in a way that acknowledges that one is always making, and that the interplay between physical and digital modes of making is essential to a productive understanding of the potential of a proposition. a pavilion The result of this test is this pavilion. It is located in a site where people are actively engaged in design and making (mfa students). It is sponsored by the studios, and built by the studios. Client, tenant, and contractor are all blurred. Program likewise: open ended and porous, it accommodates classes, projects, parties and smoke breaks. It is both the site of individual projects and collective celebrations. "made by hand" The material, form and construction processes are based on a limited set of operations, all accessible in-house. cutting --> information Each piece of aluminum and part is cut from the sheet using laser cut templates and a flush-trim router. Thus the laser cutter is extended beyond its material limitation, and the material is both cnc and hand made. bending --> material resistance There are two types of bends made to the aluminum: A global elastic deformation of the whole sheet and a local plastic deformation of the tabs. The tabs are sized to the dimension of the bending tool and the rivet gun. bonding --> registration and engagement The tabs are an open ended system of engagement. With a pair of holes in each tab, they allow for the dual functions of alignment and attachment. They are the nodes that stitch each individual act of bending and joining into the larger system of the pavilion.