26th May

19th May

Being the final week before hand in there was a fair amount of pressure to get the pavilion right. The feedback we got from a couple of weeks ago was purely structural. We needed to find a way to make the bottle stay on their side without and glue or screen to keep them in place. Emily and Jasper stayed in the group and Steve Hight, Natalie Harris and Sam Mitchell joined to help.

Sam brought with him some inner tube rubber so we decided to use this with spun wire to create a grippy surface we can weave together and make a mesh for the bottles. We left Emily, Jasper and Natalie to look after the type while Steve and I made adjustments to the frame I built a couple of weeks before.

These was Natalie's contribution from he structural group to help with the pavilion.

We drilled holes in the sides and bottom of the box to make space for the wire and rubber pieces, Realizing that we had to connect the vertical pieces together we cut grooves into a piece of metal bar to create the top of the box.

The bottles fir on the wire well and the rubber kept them from slipping off. The wire could have been pulled tighter but in a full scale model this would be solved.

Once all the wire was in place the only thing left to do was to choose what part of the type face to show in our model. This was another pieces of feedback we got from previous weeks was that we shouldn't create a new type face to fit into the model but instead take a piece of the final type to showcase.

We also applied light to the bottles to see what it would look like at night.

To round off the project and show the full size I also did some sketch up renders and Natalie created the in context image.

12th May

For this week we left our main sorties behind and instead created new groups to tackle the main problems which each of the stories. The groups were Structure, Materials, Type and Visualization. I joined the Structure groups and we discussed the problems faced with a few of the pavilions. Since there were so many pavilions that had structural problems we instead decided to go away and find construction techniques that could be used by any groups to do with as they please.

I looked into dome structures and a few different ways that domes could be created. I feel this could be used to help out the Moon group as they were looking for a way to shine light through a material and show type. With a dome they could have their light source inside of the dome and stretch fabric over the dome to project the type onto.

5th May

I stayed in the same group this week as the feedback we got for the previous idea was very good. The others left to return to Ping Pong so I was given a new group. The group members I had was Emily Kan, Nathan Meek and Jasper Timoti Omeri. The feedback we got from the lecturers for the previous idea was to turn the bottle on their side so that only the ends of the bottles could be seen. This way the type would be much easier to read as the pixel size is much smaller and manageable. Knowing we would need more bottles we collected another 100 or so to add to out collection. 

We experimented with putting the bottles on their sides to create the grid pattern and decided to light the bottle to see what they would look like.

The other thing we tested was shining light through the bottle and use the bottle of the glass as a lens. This worked reasonably well and would be a nice effect if many people were doing it at the same time.

To house the model I built a U shaped box out of MDF and put acrylic sheet on the front and back to protect the bottles and make sure no bottles would fall out of the stack.

Once we had both the bottles and the box we worked out our plan of how to show the type face.

We experimented with a drop shadow effect but decided in the end that it made the shape too confusing and the letter was not very visible

We instead decided to create a simple letter and use the coloured bottle for foreground, background and border. This way the text is very easy to see and still uses all 3 colours of bottle.

To finish off the idea I made some sketch up renders of the full size model and created context images to show the scale of the final pavilion.