FMP - week 3 (1)

I started doing drawings of my folded origami’s. During the holidays, I have been making more pieces and learnt through the process the different kinds of origami, like origami tessellation and 3D origami.   

Water Bomb tessellation

Origami tessellation- Magic ball

3D origami

3D origami

What did not go well was that I had a hard time with doing the intricate drawings. It took a lot of time and I struggled with doing perspective drawings. I asked the people around me for help. They drew a rough sketch of what I wanted to draw on scrap paper, and I try to copy the way it was done. 

Simplified drawings of my origami's

For one of my drawings, I had to draw a lot of hexagons of the same size that overlaps one another. I came up with the idea of cutting out a hexagon in the size that I want on cardboard and just trace the outline, this was a much faster method of drawing hexagons and saved a lot of time as I don’t want to dwell on doing drawings for this whole week. I was surprised to have come up with this idea, as I expected myself to just draw all those hexagons using a pencil and ruler. I was impressed that this method worked well, and if applicable I will continue using this technique for my other drawings. 

I did research into the different locations pods are situated. During my research, I discovered parasite houses. Las Palmas Parasite is a bright green prototype prefabricated house that sits on top of a warehouse’s elevators shaft. The parasite relies on the warehouse for its structural support. The Las Palmas takes all the utilities from the warehouse, the water, sewage and electricity. The concept is similar to my pod house, which is that it is attached to a existing place and the utilities comes from the main building.      

  

Fig. 1 Parasite Prefab / Lara Calder Architects (2009)

I also looked into Lara Calder Architects Parasite Prefab. The concept for this parasite is very like my idea, which is to populate spare spaces available in the urban landscapes. This research will be very helpful to my project, when it comes to the materials used and the way how the parasite is attached to the wall. The way it works is that they attach prefabricated panels on to the wall with a mounting plate. They then install the floor and the internal structure, and lay paneling on top to create a lateral bracing that secure it together. The materials for the paneling is made from compressed bamboo and recycled paper, which is a eco- solid surface material.

My tutor suggested to me to use Adobe Photoshop to attach my origami into different locations.

  



Figure 1. Parasite Prefab / Lara Calder Architects (2009) Available at http://www.archdaily.com/35859/parasite-prefab-lara-calder-architects/ ( Accessed on 26/05/2014)