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Grompies
Brendon Carlin and fellow students at the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory have experimented with liquid plaster set in stitched lycra moulds.
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Called Grompies, the project involved translating a computer-generated pattern into stitched lines across the fabric using a sewing machine and by hand.
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These textured fabric canvasses are then pulled taut and fixed to wooden frames before being filled with plaster.
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The project was a collaborative workshop by Brendon Carlin, Kyle Chou, Lluis Enrique Monzo, Carlos Piles and Faysal Tabbarah, investigating "matter as computation".
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Here's some more information from Carlin:
Grompies by Brendon Carlin, Kyle Chou, lluis Enrique Monzo, Carlos Piles, Faysal Tabbarah
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Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory - 16 month masters of architecture degree program.
Workshop: matter as computation.
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With due recognition to the work of Antonio Gaudi, Frei Otto and Felix Candela, among others.
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A virtual pattern is generated on the computer through behavioral rule sets which play out with no finite time limits.
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A moment is observed in the looping of those behaviors in virtual space, and captured.
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The resulting pattern is translated by hand and sewing machine into a stitched pattern on lycra by printing and tracing its form.
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The stitched sheets of lycra are fixed to wooden frames constructed of scrap material.
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A plaster, water mix is poured into the tightly stitched lycra pattern and left to set.
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Special thanks to Alicia Tam the London Royal College of Arts for material supply and to the students of the RCA‘s Innovation Design Engineering Unit.
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Tutors: Theodore Spyropoulos and Rob-Stuart Smith
Team:
Brendon Carlin - USA
Kyle Chou - Taiwan/Usalluis Enrique Monzo - Spain
Carlos Piles - Spain
Faysal Tabbarah - Syria
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