Monday, March 26, 2007

response

i completely agree with the issue of material and weight in the booth, i cut out cardboard yesterday and even though it was a pitiful start (very flimsy..i don't think so.) just to see the entire length of the booth was actually kind of scary to imagine the whole thing. especially with materials i was hoping for. the sample booth i made is going to be much more open i think, lighter. the tracks on the ground as opposed to parking lines, i guess my take on the tracks was that they are a way to lock the thing in as a property of the park and not some free spinning shopping cart (literally) flying away. the computer renderings, yeah they look bad. dan wanted me to do a "full-scale model" on the computer and draw on them. it made me figure out some things but perhaps slower than just sketching them, but seeing that whole thing rendered helped me realize a little how bulky it was. what dan was sayign about the objects needing perhaps larger than 10 by 10 spaces, well i don't know if i want to just diagram where objects are, i designed the booths so that some of them can team up, or some can use from another space, or some are very empty and spacious. i think i need to categorize the spaces of the booths and maybe permutations the booths can form with each other. and yes i will get a better title. and i will make a full scale. and work out generally all the booths better on a bigger scale. and post more thoughts because i can't remember other stuff

3 comments:

Alex Gryger said...

i think you should keep working with cardboard because even if the real booths wouldn't be made out of cardboard you would learn a lot about how to build with light weight materials. Particularly in terms of how light, thin materials can be detailed to stiffen them.

bjones said...

maybe look into gator board, its like cardboard except I think its 1" thick and it comes in large panels (something like a 4'x8' sheet. would probably be good for large planar pieces. I've worked with it before and it is very strong (especially if you laminate it with chipboard or something.

Also, I'm not sure if you've seen how a really cheap door is made, but maybe think about building like that. It uses very thin material for the planar pieces with just a couple of rigid supports on the edges and it is just the thickness of these supports braced together with the very thin material that makes it so rigid.

Unknown said...

thanks guys, will look into it!