The studies are interesting.Your definition of "mold" also challenges any kind of traditional definition of a mold. I think you'd be better served by focusing on gaining control of the melted wax technique rather than using them as a study for some other thing (unless you already have this "other thing" and can show me on friday).
So what is lacking in these studies? It's a sense of measurement and comparison, of a set of constraints and comparisons. There's also nothing remotely close to "digital fabrication".
I think however you can develop these studies into a project that would be both parametric and digital. Moreover, while most projects are trying to break out of repetition, yours needs to break in to it. That is to say, I don't want you to do this project unless you can produce the same piece of wax twice. The only way you will be able to do that is if you can contrive a measurable, repeatbable production system.
Your project is painterly. A medium (wax) is placed on a kind of surface (the water) using some sort of tool (a pot?) which is manipulated by a gesture (pouring, moving).
So there are four major components: medium, surface, tool and gesture.
as an exercise try breaking each of these into their component parameters. For example, "gesture" resolves to the X, Y, Z location of the tool per time as it gathers wax from the pan and adds wax to the water. From location and time we can derive velocity and acceleration (as you say "a register of the form in time").
if you imagine the mill as your "painter" then this kind of parametrics is realizable. The mill could paint for you drawing a path between hot wax and cold water. Your "brush" might be drill bit and you can turn off the spin so as not to spray wax all over the place. The gesture is the key thing to design and to vary.
If this direction seems right to you then prepare a strategry for it before we meet on Friday: develop a scheme taking in to account the parameters you will need to control and how to control them.
You also need to explain to me how these "casts" would be used architecturally.
Greta,
ReplyDeleteThe studies are interesting.Your definition of "mold" also challenges any kind of traditional definition of a mold. I think you'd be better served by focusing on gaining control of the melted wax technique rather than using them as a study for some other thing (unless you already have this "other thing" and can show me on friday).
So what is lacking in these studies? It's a sense of measurement and comparison, of a set of constraints and comparisons. There's also nothing remotely close to "digital fabrication".
I think however you can develop these studies into a project that would be both parametric and digital. Moreover, while most projects are trying to break out of repetition, yours needs to break in to it. That is to say, I don't want you to do this project unless you can produce the same piece of wax twice. The only way you will be able to do that is if you can contrive a measurable, repeatbable production system.
Your project is painterly. A medium (wax) is placed on a kind of surface (the water) using some sort of tool (a pot?) which is manipulated by a gesture (pouring, moving).
So there are four major components: medium, surface, tool and gesture.
as an exercise try breaking each of these into their component parameters. For example, "gesture" resolves to the X, Y, Z location of the tool per time as it gathers wax from the pan and adds wax to the water. From location and time we can derive velocity and acceleration (as you say "a register of the form in time").
if you imagine the mill as your "painter" then this kind of parametrics is realizable. The mill could paint for you drawing a path between hot wax and cold water. Your "brush" might be drill bit and you can turn off the spin so as not to spray wax all over the place. The gesture is the key thing to design and to vary.
If this direction seems right to you then prepare a strategry for it before we meet on Friday: develop a scheme taking in to account the parameters you will need to control and how to control them.
You also need to explain to me how these "casts" would be used architecturally.
See you friday,
Josh