The metal tray was creates used two equal wooden ply templates. They sandwiched a piece of aluminium which would be rounded and shaped by the hammer until it too the shape of the try. However, the plywood would deform after being hit with the hammer, and so trimming and sanding the edges was necessary to achieve a level finish.
WEEK 2: The Torus
The torus was made by splitting the aluminium into three equal sections, and then bending them while also creating a curved shape. This provided difficult as the more you hammered to create the central channel, the more the metal wanted to straighten out. Patience was key as I had to keep hammering out the channel, and then shaping it to achieve the curve. Finally, the edges were rolled over, and the piece polished.
Architecture as a complex form of art, containing aspects of sculpture while retaining restrictions of form.
Here, a fluid form (seen in the roof) portrays a piece of art, a sculpture, while the practical box elements detailed with steel framing and wood-panelling restrict the building to it's practical nature. This bridge serves as both a faculty for the Built Enviroment, and a form of motion through the UNSW campus. Linking the Squarehouse, Roundhouse and NIDA, this form acts to also break down the closed atmosphere between each faculty/school of teaching, allowing students to draw sub conscience inspiration from all of the practices as they travel between different faculties to reach their specific classes within the structure. Ultimately, architecture is a complicated form of art, which has to abide by some form of rules, however that is not to say that one cannot find new solutions to these rules in their design process which brings forth a new sense of thinking.
