After our class meeting last Friday, it was apparent that we had a lot of work ahead of us. Because I'm on the Fabric team, I went online to research different ways of applying fabric to our temporary structure. Because of our limited amount of time, money, I wasn't too keen on the idea of designing a skin made of fabric that wrapped around the whole structure. I did some researching online of a firm I really like, Ball-Nogues Studio, and found images of installations they have completed around the scale of our project. The images I have posted include installations including:
Materials & Application (2005) Maximilian's Schell
MOCA Skin+Bones (2006) Installation
P.S.1 (2007) Liquid Sky
Shenzhen HK Biennale of Urbanism (2009) Built to Wear
I tried to upload images that show the way they connected the pieces of the skin to the structural frame. Although not all of their materials are fabric, I thought we could apply the method of construction to our project, not necessarily use the same materials. Because the weather during Coachella is known for being windy, I thought that instead of creating a single fabric skin wrapped over and around theframe, we could produce the effect of a scale-like skin made of many pieces of fabric that would work with the wind.
