Fabric formwork physical modelling: iteration one
For the first fabric formwork physical modelling iteration, I elected for a full, uniform grid of bamboo – equally spaced and all of the...
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Oliver Haigh
Jan 14, 20202 min read
Fabric formwork physical modelling: creating an adaptable base
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...
Oliver Haigh
Jan 13, 20204 min read
Technology DSIT B submission
I have now submitted my Design Studio Integrated Technology B (DSIT B) report. This is the first of two technology modules which make up...
Oliver Haigh
Jan 11, 20202 min read
Formwork: fabric instead of rigid?
My explorations into using living bamboo as scaffolding to support rigid formwork for casting concrete have helped advance my project,...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 29, 20193 min read
'Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes + Eco-Warriors', book by CJ Lim and Ed Liu
As it is the Christmas break from teaching,I decided to take some time to read the Smartcities book that I bought at the end of CJ Lim's...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 16, 20192 min read
Context Studies: Thesis – written submission
Submitting my Thesis concludes my Context Studies for the whole of this degree, after completing Stasis in the second semester of first...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 12, 20192 min read
Semester 1 final review
For the final review of the semester, I presented a few key conceptual things which had been present in the interim review, and then...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 9, 20191 min read
Critiquing 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate final review
I was glad to be asked back to critique the same group of undergraduate students for their final review of the semester as I had for...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 8, 20192 min read
Representing time: flick book
I am now satisfied that film is the primary medium that I should use to convey time-based changes of the site. However, as architecture...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 6, 20193 min read
Representing time: film
Having decided a couple of weeks ago that my printing experiments hadn't provided the best solution for representing time, I wanted to...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 4, 20192 min read
'Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes', CJ Lim lecture
This Wednesday concluded the Open Lecture Series for this semester, with CJ Lim coming to talk about his and Ed Liu's book Smartcities,...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 4, 20191 min read
Living bamboo physical model: reflection and drawings
Alongside the computer and physical models, I have also produced a series of sectional drawings to further illustrate this concept that...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 3, 20192 min read
Living bamboo physical model: casting in the formwork
Pleased that the first phases of the modelling process had been a success, I then wanted to push it further and try and cast in the...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 2, 20192 min read
Living bamboo physical model: assembling the formwork
With the base and forest in place, I then put together the faceted formwork of the card. Despite all of the pieces being cut precisely on...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 1, 20192 min read
Living bamboo physical model: making the base and the cut bamboo forest
Once I had completed the Grasshopper definition, I took the cut patterns that it generated and laser cut the model pieces. The base and...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 30, 20191 min read
Living bamboo physical model: computer modelling process
After spending quite a few hours in Rhino and Grasshopper, I have managed to write a Grasshopper definition which: Gives me cut patterns...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 29, 20192 min read
Living bamboo physical model: idea
As with testing the geodesic ideas, I want to use computer modelling, physical modelling and drawing side by side as a linked process....
Oliver Haigh
Nov 28, 20192 min read
Living bamboo as falsework
Using geodesic domes as the form for some initial computer and physically modelling speculation led me to testing the idea of bamboo...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 27, 20192 min read
Teaching Adobe Indesign software
Near the start of the academic year, a friend and I were approached about teaching some software to undergraduates. The undergraduate...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 25, 20193 min read
Representing time: reprographic experiments
Building on my work with historical maps, the first thing that I had decided that I needed to do was to redraw the maps that I had found...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 23, 20192 min read
Representing time: the need for cartographic graphic consistency
As has already been stated, a large part of my analysis of the site has been focused around the history of the site and how it has...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 20, 20195 min read
Context Studies: Thesis – presentation
About four weeks before our final Context: Thesis written submission, we were required to present our work so far in a ten minute...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 18, 20191 min read
Geodesic physical model: reflection
This tandem physical modelling and computer modelling and drawing process has been a really useful way of initially testing the concept...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 16, 20191 min read
Geodesic physical model: casting
The final modules to do were to test and demonstrate the casting on formwork process. For this, I used a card formwork/mould, built from...
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