Month: February 2023Page 2 of 3

Architecture is built by extracting the nutrients at the earths expense. Considering that a parasite is an organism that lives by deriving nutrients at the other’s expense, architecture…

Concept For the final version of my parasite, I had to completely change my concept. For the past week and half I was focusing on using fabric that’s…

My overall idea was to display a virus encapsulating its host from all directions. I drew inspiration from the flowers that close up during a certain time of…

I started working with fabric forms yesterday around the lamp, and was pleasantly surprised at how the fabric, plastic, and lamp interacted to create and restrict movement. The…

Building on my previous idea of trying to show a parasite encapsulate a host. I experimented with different pneumatic shapes in order to create the motion I wanted….

This week I added dowels to the parasite limbs to extend their range of motion without actually having to create new pouches using the heat sealer: I did…

Parasitic Interventions Last week I explored what a parasitic intervention would look like if humans were the parasite to architecture. However, building fabric architectural elements that respond to…

For this checkpoint, I prototyped the most favorable of my design choices for the bladder to get the movement I wanted In addition, I tested the two input…

Mechanism For the mechanism of my parasite, I suspended a brush above a heat sealed pocket. I experimented with having two pockets on either end of the brush…