Elaboration Form Structure: Tense-Bridge-Ty

This project was coming at the last part of Structure and Form Studio. I and one of my friend were in a group. Before this, we learned more about three kind of structure, consist of active structure, structure based truss, structure based plane, and so on. This task was more about all of the compilation of our learning structure studio. Each of our tasks always had to make a model or mock-up. This "Tense-bridge-ty" was one of my task.

Tense-Bridge-Ty

First of all, I and one of my friend (called "C") was in a group that picked out randomly by the others. We didn't know what to do. We didn't know what to choose. So, we explore all of the architecture websites that related to "structure". At the beginning, we thought about making a Lotus Temple, folded structure. But finally, in the end of form exploration, there was a light come to our mind. We were really sure to make a decision for choosing "tensegrity". Our mentor was also agreed with us, even he was acquainting us with one of the magister student that studying and researching about tensegrity in our building. Let me called her by "R".

R was really helping us a lot. She helped us to understand about what is tensegrity itself, helped us making the basic tensegrity. Let me show you the picture below. This was one of the first basic tensegrity that we made. Firstly, we guess that this tensegrity was really hard to make. But after we were teached by R, it's really simple to make. All you have to prepare is a bunch of wood stick, a roll of yarn, cutter, super glue, pencil, ruler, and scissor, and also our power! For more about making basic tensegrity, see at another my posting about how to make a basic tensegrity.

Me and C's first tensegrity

After we made about more than 10 parts this basic tensegrity, we're going to the next step. We had to make a new form structure. All of this basic tensegrity were joined together, and we made something new, but not really functional enough. This picture below will show you one part how we joined all of the basic tensegrity. It became a tower(?) Hahaha we were not really sure about that.

Joined basic tensgrity

After we had so many guidance from our mentor and R, we're asking about how to make this joined basic tensegrity to a bridge system. They helping us too. And finally, well I'm not sure if the model is good and pretty enough, we made it! You can scroll up again to the first picture above in this post. We made it like that. We're so proud of our new experiment. Our basic tensegrity is really simple to make, and really awesome to see. Want to know this project more? Just call me :D