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Sujal Kothawade
Material Systems
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In this module the main objective was to understand different systems, materials and forces of a structure. We initially started with making models from the given prompts to understand the different sets of forces affecting a structure. My prompt was tensile and tensegrity. I had to spread it in 1mx1m. I started with taking inspiration from the process of stretching animal skin to make parchment. Here, I used a wooden frame & some nails to keep a tensile fabric in tension.
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Taking further the idea of keeping the fabric in tension I used strings to anchor the fabric upwards and weights to anchor it down. To keep a tensile structure in tension anchoring it on various points and levels is required.
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Exploring the form i tried with reducing the members or having limited members, and if the structure changed with change in the anchors, weights or heights
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FORCE DIAGRAM
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While concluding this stage of the module we learned how different forces act on a structure and the kind of impact they have when the materials are changed.
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In the second stage we got into pairs and designed a canteen for our school while using the learnings of the first stage
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We took inspiration from the previous prototypes and landed on the form of this petal/droplet.
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While we were referring to the petal/droplets form we explored the possibility of it being a continuous wall in tension, but we stopped since we started drifting from the idea of it being a tensile structure.
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Taking the form one more step further we came up with this structural form. But here what was missing was the sense of continuity, the idea of the bamboo being a long loop so we came up with another model .
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And that is how we ended up with this structure, where the bamboos in the roof are long continuous loops starting and ending at a particular point.
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