6 panel prototype, A,B,C 21, 22

Doris Sung featured in USC Trojan Family Mag. and USC website

http://tfm.usc.edu/summer-2011/digital-builders/

Fabrication begins

Fabrication of Sunny Side up will begin this week! 

Full Scale Prototype Tiles and Frame

Full Scale prototypes testing fluency between digital process and fabrication. 

Panels  A21, B21, C21 (aka. 91,92,93 East)

str panels

AIA Visit featured on website

http://www.aia.org/practicing/research/index.htm

surface modification and eco analysis correlations

Final engineering, fabrication test, and material delivery

final engineering test for buckling and deformation under lateral loads

600 lbs of flattened and cut bimetals make their way from shop to studio

test of custom "unrolling" grasshopper definition. compared to rhino unroll command

test of grasshopper unfolding definition, and panel assembly order

tile fluency tests 

aluminum frame mock up and laser cutting samples. 

revision options to frame connection detail 

first round of physical tests of digital unrolling and unfolding processes

 

site stacked out to check set back requirements and base assembly