Photo Journal – Thursday 17 May 2012

Presidents, Picnics, & Pulling yarn…

I’ve been busy.. hence my delayed posting… Final projects, assignments, and reports are pretty much complete now… I have been packing and getting things ready for my trip… I leave the US today (31st May 2012), stay tuned… Here’s my journal for the 17th May…

It is a very beautiful day today… soo sunny! I got in early this morning and started some work.. Today we were having a Celebration Picnic in honor of President Hockfield in Killian Court… My friends encouraged me to go (food).. and so I went… I did not realize/ remember how gorgeous it was outside until I exited the doors onto Killian…

Look at the scene….

Students are so glad for the break from work for a bit…

Tables and stuff out… feels soo garden party…

I joined the line for food… Long line, but its moving quickly…

I always go for the cakes and cookies!! Love em! Red Velvet cake, cookies, brownies…. Mmmmmm…. Don’t worry, I will be sharing this with my girl Mik…

Everyone is really happy out here!

There was food and drinks for all…

Liquid Archive by Nader Tehrani in the background…

Liquid Archive by Nader Tehrani

Cops need to eat too..

Boston backdrop…

Ok.. back to work! I am working on my final project for my new textiles class… I am doing a string sculpture… a removable one…

Pulling yarn…

I would stick my tapestry needle in Antonio’s chair and thread as long a yarn as I could…

It’s going quite nicely…

The previous string sculpture I did.. after hardening with liquid plastic and removal from the structure…

So far so great..

Part one complete… now for part two…

Magenta colored yarn…

Almost done…

Part two (yarn number two) complete…

Part four, application of liquid plastic for hardening…

You can see more here New Textile Final Project >>>

Much love!!

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Photo Journal – Monday 14 May 2012

Fabrication Digital!!!!

Today we present our final… the completed bay of our curved pavilion… As I arrive, the exteriors team is installing their Semi Translucent Polypropylene plastic sheets.. Grasshopper was used to generate the modules digitally…  Great job!

Notice the pavilion is now on the foundations…

George and My doing some fine-tuning…

Continuing to apply the exterior sheets..

Clean, crisp connections and reveals!

Sean made an awesome choice with the exterior…

Still loving our interior.. which stood up extremely well to being pulled and stretched while exteriors installed their finish…

Look at that…

Our scaled model sitting, watching everything going on….

Looking through the past into the future…

Chris’s dogs came by for a bit… You know I went gaga and had to indulge in some much needed doggie time! “Yook at dat nosie!!!! Youuuu shweet!”

This guy is also happy to see me.. I think he smells my excitement and impending going wild on him with belly rubs, body rubs, and strange googie voices of delight! “Whooojjjj ah shweet boy!!!” Thanks for making my day Chris!

3d prints of our models along the way…

We got awesome pizza by the way… the best was chicken, and broccoli with some kinda Alfredo sauce on it.. it was yum!!! We were all starving!

Dr. Sass and reviewers..

Presentation finished… Baby is placed inside mummy.. and we are all very pleased…

Moi!

I am so tired.. I need sleep.. but I have to rush off to a meeting after…

The following pics are from my classmate George Lin.

Footings/ foundation… extremely well designed I think…

Materializing Design 2012 Team Photo.

Thanks for a great learning experience Dr. Larry Sass, Asli, my partner Linlin, and fellow classmates!

See here for documentation of the project – http://fabricationdigital.tumblr.com/

Have a great weekend guys!

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Photo Journal – Sunday 13 May 2012

Digitally Fabricated Curved Pavilion… here we come!!!

Today is going to be a long, long, physically demanding day… We will be assembling our curved pavilion… Today is sunny and nice day to be out…

Another lovely day in Cambridge.. Oh, and it’s Mother’s Day…

Before heading to the Woodshop, I head down Mass Ave. to the Economy Hardware Store to pick up some items…

After I got back to the Woodshop, I met Mik, David, Ki, and Chris going to get lunch… I figured I would grab lunch too.. We went to the Mexican place that Tom and I went to yesterday.. This time, I had the above… Lotta pepper! (or spicy as Americans say)…

Mik had the same…

Chris had this…

Mik and I

Our pile of parts…waiting for us… waiting for their moment of glory… (we hope)

Assembly is coming along nicely… We talk about our procedure and how we will assemble and erect this thing…

Labeling of our parts were key… it was assembling a life-sized puzzle…

I had to leave for a bit… My professor (Winston) and I had a meeting today.. He called and said he was in his office… so I rode across quickly to Stata to catch him…

Meeting complete.. back to Woodshop!

We are progressing nicely…

We erect our first section! Man it looks great! We feel a great sense of accomplishment…

Oh  yeah.. we were tired alright! We beat the hell out of those boards..

Taking a 2 minute break…

 Back at it!..

Quick photo! Say cheese!

We were having some problems here… turns out we had two incorrect pieces..

Nice!

Pounding away!

We now have to bring these two parts together…

Bit by bit we get there…

Lovely!

We’ve got them together… well almost…

It’s now almost 8pm… and we still have a way to go…

We pound and try to get our connecting pieces snug and holding our ribs securely together…

Had some floor issues, so we were checking our parts to see what was possibly the problem..

Okay… we’re almost there… main structure up for the most part… Time for interiors…

My partner Linlin and I are assisted by Mik on installing our interiors…

Almost done… Did a little dance of happiness… Mik caught me unawares… we laughed about it!

Tada!! Our ruled surface interior installed…

If given the opportunity to do this again, I would use colored rods for the ruled surface… made of a sturdier material.. wood, or steel, or plastic of some sort.. It looks great! but the main guides could have been better done… learning lesson for sure! Next time…

Almost finished… at this time we are REALLY, REALLY tired… Just wanna go home, shower, eat, and sleep! I have class before we present this at 2pm… The exteriors team still need to install their exterior skin, and we need to place it on its foundations..

I really like it!

After cleaning up….

Voila!!

Bye Bye little one.. see you later…

Stay tuned for the finished project (Monday 14th May 2012)…

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