Saturday, December 4, 2010

Taylor, TX architecture project!

This is my final project for my design V studio. Like the Marfa project, our task was design shelter/art structures, only this time individually. We installed them in Taylor, TX at a community happening, and slept in them for the night. It was a great experience! I LOVED seeing what everyone came up with; 17 people, 17 completely unique projects.
My project came about with a mindset of sustainability. {I use that word seriously, and resent the fact that it's thrown around so much without true meaning and intent.} I saved the full bolt of fabric cut into 6" x 25' strips that we used in our Marfa project, and began the project wanting to reuse that material. My iterations of this project over the last month had much to do with investigating how to make fabric structural. I constructed the triangular frames of bamboo, that I got for free from a guy getting rid of it from is yard. What I made was truly a result of the materials I had on hand.
I'm really happy to say that I'm keeping this wacky hammock, and will hang it on 2 new trees as soon as I can. I'm glad that it's useful beyond this project. And it's comfy!
Here's me chillin. I wasn't done installing my structure yet (look at those frayed edges!), but some visitors were nice enough to offer to shoot my picture! 




A couple of my classmates' projects:






I'll be posting an accompanying video soon...

1 comment:

  1. Hi Dani,
    Your hammock looks cool and I am glad that you have so much fun. How about in winter time are you going to heat in it? I am kidding.
    We are looking forward to see you soon.
    Love,
    B+Z

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