Hyper-Component using a pot-holder to create lightweight structures

Students :
Abbas Kikali
Mohit Chordia
Prajakta Panchal
Varsha Subbarao
Viplav Goverdhan

Tutors :
Silvia Brandi
Rodrigo Aguirre

The first session of Lightweight structures started today with a gist of previous year projects. The brief for this year is to design from the waste of the future, year 2100. Silvia and Rodrigo took the class on an expedition to the Bazaar to pick materials for the same. We gathered materials that could potentially be used to design a hyper-component of our lightweight structure.

We, as part of Group 1, chose a circular metal pot-holder to work with, along with rings, glasses, clips, clothes basket. After trying different ways of interlocking, we derived a joinery detail using plastic tags, for two holders. Three of such components were fixed together to form a pyramid like hyper-component. We also worked with another material to create a prism shaped component as part of the process of deriving a hyper-component.

Review

We were advised by Silvia and Rodrigo to go ahead with the idea of pot-holders as it turned out to be more stable. They also suggested working with different sizes of the pot-holders and with different angles of the hyper-component to come up with dynamic forms and variations. This will be further developed in the coming sessions of the elective in order to make a 1:1 scale model eventually.

Components forming pyramid like structure

Basic Concept using the pot-holders