MArch: Reflective Journal

I have just submitted my Design Studio Integrated Technology C (DSIT C) report. This is the second component that makes up the MArch2...

As one of our two sessions with engineering consultants for technology was cancelled in the run-up to lockdown, and as we have been...

By this stage, the university and department have fully accepted that the closure of all campus facilities will continue until the end of...

By this stage, I have conducted a fairly substantial amount of research and investigation into most aspects of the construction process...

After testing out bracing, I've now moved back to the main set of physical testing, focused on fabric formwork. The latest aspect of the...

As an update to the blog post on the Fabricate 2020 conference from a few days ago, I have found out that the Fabricate 2020 book has...

About a month on from having a discussion with Chris Matthews, I've now had the opportunity to run my scheme past another engineer, Peter...

As I sit and write this blog post from my flat in Leeds, I was supposed instead to be in London attending the Fabricate 2020 conference....

As well as carrying out my own physical modelling tests, I knew that I could also learn a lot about the fabric formwork process by...

Having roughly devised a strategy for bracing the bamboo against the tension of the fabric and the weight of the cast material, based on...

For the next phase of physical testing, I wanted to look at how different types of fabrics or membranes would affect the casting process...

Keith Andrews organised for Rosemarie Andrews from Bryden Wood to come and talk to us and then give us each individual tutorials on our...

Over the many hours spent putting together Grasshopper definitions to create the forms that I am proposing, including the indentations...

A few weeks ago, Nick mentioned that a contact of his, Chris Matthews, a structural engineer from Atelier One, may be a useful person for...

Nick arranged for Adam, who had been the guest critic for our final review of last semester, to come and give us some tuition on Rhino,...

The initial two fabric formwork tests were both based on hanging the fabric loosely from a frame and then draping the material over...

For the last couple of weeks, I parked my physical modelling tests whilst I focused on pulling together my DS3 portfolio for the draft...

In the second iteration, the variable that I changed was the heights of the bamboos. I retained equal heights around the perimeter, but...

For the first fabric formwork physical modelling iteration, I elected for a full, uniform grid of bamboo – equally spaced and all of the...

I am wanting to test out the idea of fabric formwork initially through physical modelling. Because it is a concept that I have not worked...