Flexible Railed Panels, Gallery Installation, Gainesville, FL<\/p>\n
This project was from a seminar class entitled: “Materials Exploration: Assemblies and Systems”. We were challenged to pick a material we were interested in and how to stretch it’s abilities and how to combine it with other materials for assemblies or as methods of working the material.<\/p>\n
I choose PolyCarbonate a plastic noted for it’s impact resistance and clarity, often being a glass replacement. After examining the various forms I was most fascinated with the tubes. The tubes could bend to impressive degrees without bending. To explore this I wanted to design a facade that could be flexed to any angle using the tubes as the backbone structure. Instead of an opaque facade the decision was to use a fabric that would transmit light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Flexible Railed Panels, Gallery Installation, Gainesville, FL This project was from a seminar class entitled: “Materials Exploration: Assemblies and Systems”. We were challenged to pick a material we were interested in and how to stretch it’s abilities and how to combine it with other materials for assemblies or as methods of working the material. I choose PolyCarbonate a plastic noted for it’s impact resistance and clarity, often being a glass replacement. After examining the various forms I was most fascinated with the tubes. The tubes could bend to impressive degrees without bending. To explore this I wanted to design a facade that could be flexedRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-44","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-graduate","9":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/architecture.michaelcporter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}