Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Jon Turkula, Wayne Conger, John Becker
- Research Agenda
Storing Storage
Our research is predicated on the belief that from the extreme urban condition grows opportunities to explore the limits of compactness. As dwellers of New York seemingly at the mercy of stifling density and compressed living spaces, we will look to the metabolists’ static experiments with packed function and, more importantly, to the manual kinetic alterations employed by Rietveld at Schroder House. We will research the ability of the diminutive apartment to open, expand, and disclose unseen compartments; specifically, storage areas will reveal themselves when activated and remain hidden when disengaged.
Our Proposal tackles the issue of storage, a passive function that will remain dormant until approached. Murphy bed and the mirrored medicine cabinet are analog precedents for our research project. The effectiveness of both relies on a double skin. When disengaged, the underside of a Murphy bed creates a false wall with its programmatic elements-mattress, sheets, pillows-hidden within the wall cavity until rotated outwards like tool in a Swiss Army Knife. Similarly, medicine cabinets are installed near-flush to the wall surface concealing the storage volume is protruding and evident. In other words, our double skin storage wall will bear little resemblance to a protruding cupboard, cabinet or refrigerator.
Storage voids, stored within the cavity of the double-skin wall, will open and close according to proximity to the wall. The normal, disengaged state of the wall’s orifices will be constriction that holds objects in place and hidden. The opposite state is open showing the storage spaces and the objects they hold.
- Realization
Looking at previous constructions of motion triggered systems we will first assemble a working prototype of the input portion. It then becomes important for us to create a way to enhance the amount of movement created in the muscle wire as well as an even or equal distribution of the expansion. Lastly will be a study of possible finished materials of the elastic wall, be it fabric, silicon, etc.
- Spatial Impact
Ideally this system will allow for a controlled finished interior surface that conceals essential space saving storage, only revealing it at the occupant’s discretion.
- Research Agenda
Storing Storage
Our research is predicated on the belief that from the extreme urban condition grows opportunities to explore the limits of compactness. As dwellers of New York seemingly at the mercy of stifling density and compressed living spaces, we will look to the metabolists’ static experiments with packed function and, more importantly, to the manual kinetic alterations employed by Rietveld at Schroder House. We will research the ability of the diminutive apartment to open, expand, and disclose unseen compartments; specifically, storage areas will reveal themselves when activated and remain hidden when disengaged.
Our Proposal tackles the issue of storage, a passive function that will remain dormant until approached. Murphy bed and the mirrored medicine cabinet are analog precedents for our research project. The effectiveness of both relies on a double skin. When disengaged, the underside of a Murphy bed creates a false wall with its programmatic elements-mattress, sheets, pillows-hidden within the wall cavity until rotated outwards like tool in a Swiss Army Knife. Similarly, medicine cabinets are installed near-flush to the wall surface concealing the storage volume is protruding and evident. In other words, our double skin storage wall will bear little resemblance to a protruding cupboard, cabinet or refrigerator.
Storage voids, stored within the cavity of the double-skin wall, will open and close according to proximity to the wall. The normal, disengaged state of the wall’s orifices will be constriction that holds objects in place and hidden. The opposite state is open showing the storage spaces and the objects they hold.
- Realization
Looking at previous constructions of motion triggered systems we will first assemble a working prototype of the input portion. It then becomes important for us to create a way to enhance the amount of movement created in the muscle wire as well as an even or equal distribution of the expansion. Lastly will be a study of possible finished materials of the elastic wall, be it fabric, silicon, etc.
- Spatial Impact
Ideally this system will allow for a controlled finished interior surface that conceals essential space saving storage, only revealing it at the occupant’s discretion.
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