What assumptions do you have about particles?
Above are the series of balloon inspired particles generated.
Particle 1 broken down to its individual layers.
Particle 2 broken down to its individual layers.
Particle 3 broken down to its individual layers.
Ideas about how particles can connect to one another. Looking at how suction and pressure along with rubber and plastic materials can work to create a connection or bond.
Suction of one balloon particle, molding into the next balloon through compression.
Interior balloons bonding to one another within exterior balloons.
The packing of particles shows the need to find inspiration on how interactions perform between the exterior skins of these balloon particles.
Balloon particles are broken down into parts and pieces to form a potential assembly of parts. Emphasis is placed on looking at the joint in more detail and defining how it may perform.
Pieces of the broken down balloon need to be assembled so that they can connect/bond to other surfaces in multiple dimensions. In addition this rendition tries to reformulate the balloons through the individual parts and pieces and how they perform together.
Still what is critical and can answer a lot of pressing questions is how does the joint or hinge perform. This is the smallest and yet the most detailed part of the entire composition of parts. This joint can also make way for the parts to connect in multiple dimensions and configurations.
The bond asks us to define the spacial / organizational diagrams and construction techniques that will tell us_
what is interlocking?
what is rigid and what is flexible?
does it matter where the chain reaction starts?
how does the form of interlocking result in effects? light , rigid-flexible, etc.
The unit is two hemispheres with shallow balloon properties and customized perforations on its surface. The bond / hinge has been defined by using a pearl like chain made of a rubber plastic. The upper hemisphere of the hinge and the bottom have a hole cut out at a specific angle that protrudes out of the hemispheres surface. Its shape invites the pearl like chain to weave itself into and out allowing it to connect with multiple hemispheres. The pearl chain can twist and turn on itself yet at the same time the custom designed holes within the hemispheres allow for a difficult exit. The holes in the hemispheres are designed so that there is some rigidity yet a percentage of flexibility. When the chain adds more hemisphere surfaces it can adjust itself and get comfortable within its own skin and atmosphere.
The particles transformation into a prototype. Looking at the grain and defining the structure while asking what is rigid and what is flexible? How does it taper or come to an end? The prototype spans the floor surface of La Tourette main chapel and reveals the void spaces below currently used for storage. These voids can be reinvented and not merely serve as transitional unoccupied spaces. .