investigation in iconic insects

A Sudden Highrise Design Informative

Passing before a
copious and tidy tower
draws audiences before the door.

Expressing design is
but a mere play on abstracting real-life.
Sketches stand before the door of creation.

Our tower is coming along nicely. 
Time to finish designing the waffle ceiling and move onto larger clients: the boards. 
Public Space model in progress. 

Plumbing System by Joseph Conway

Air Circulation by Joseph Conway

Geo-Thermal System by Joseph Conway

273 Year Tower

Concepts

Waffle Ceiling

My Sudden Obsession with Delicate Foods and Leather Shoes

How obtuse is photography of Food and Shoes?

Help

Three for a Dime

Puppy Tree

Patten Leather Shoes

Finally Final--Concrete cast and placement

Finally 

the grueling process 

of final casting concrete comes 

to a final complete halt. 

In finality, 

the cast became something powerful, 

tectonically spirited 

& finally experiential. 

"As light passes over the reptile-like surface, 
the texture of fabric is brought forth."

The Cast

The Reveal

The Casket

The Skin

What applications can be found through this research?
The use of concrete in forms have changed minimally over the past 100 years
so why not try something new, more efficient, more effective and more exciting?
The fabric form has a plethora of possibilities and applications including:
-modular systems
-foundations
-seating
-park facilities
-tables
-basketball courts
-sculptures

This obtuse way of casting concrete has found great favor with me.
My mind is swimming with alluring notions for future casts. 

Few Last Notes:
Mark West
University of Manitoba Architecture Professor
Previos Jobs: 
"University of Kentucky, Carleton University, The Collage of the Atlantic, and as a visiting professor at The University of Texas at Austin."
Current Research:
"The invention of fabric molds to produce light-weight, high efficiency, reinforced concrete beams.
The design and production of light-weight, pre-cast, compression vault and shell panels cast from flexible fabric molds.
Light-weight fabric molds that reduce the materials consumed in concrete formwork construction."

Thank you Mark for you revolutionary architectural idea.

Jars and Such

Final Site-Model

As we gear down toward completion of high rise designing,
we start to embrace production week[s]. 


This of course begins with the site model.
--again it pertains to industrialized area of San Francisco.

absquatulate:
The door erupts in a sound of great haste,
to which I have jumped out,
even while looking at my watch.




aWordPoembyJeremiahJohnson

The Weekend Casting

--Long over-do--
Here lays simple adornments of the weekend of casting.
My mold is about to burst with elation
to glimpse upon results

--which shall be on my 'doorstep' this weekend.

{The cast was glorious in shape and strength, though annoying to coerce into the cavity.}

We made our own concrete with Portland cement and crystalline sand

concrete mix

funnel out of a juice container

seeping concrete after shaking

placing concrete into mold holes

identifying the major & minor bulges

 Something obtuse?

Yes indeed! As this graduate class exists based on a few obscure project, our Research and Development in fabric form concrete is obtuse in the art world of today.

Next week: placing the final mold

Concrete Mold Completion

Unforeseen circumstance is the bane to architecture. 
Serendipity is the designer of architecture.

A slightly complex mold 9.4 feet long becomes too gigantic to move. 
End resulting weight nearly 300lbs.

After spending another few hours redesigning the mold, I finally placed  'rebar' and fabric on the mold. The result seems beautiful. I finished the mold with rope anchored throughout the mold as tie rods. Time to cast soon this weekend.

Rebar

pour holes

rope anchor

metal rope anchor

mold

Titled: "
Works of Shakespeare"

Titled: "Nail Ring"

Titled: "Bottle Light"