C1Strategy

Open Column is a precise calibration of material relationships that yield a predictable structure. Key to its mechanical ingenuity is that it solely relies on the rubber’s material properties for its kinetic and formal performance. Each component’s hard/soft rubber ratio is properly negotiated relative to its location on the structure. This results in a singular but manifold construction whose emergent properties cannot be reduced to the individual performance of its parts.

Open Column is an evolving space that exists within a host space. Installed in a series it acts as a responsive skin that people interface with. The columns can be collapsed, fully stretched or any of the other positions in between, with each configuration offering a new set of parameters for inhabitation.


CARA(S)PACE 1: Open Column		Open Column is a collapsible enclosure that resides as a skin layer on the ceiling of a space. It can be activated to drop and create a free standing construction that stretches from floor to ceiling. Made from composite elastomers of customized repetitive parts Open Column is an example of a responsive architecture; constructions that reconfigure the physical and conceptual space of inhabitation. Where physical manipulation is the purview of technology (material, mechanical, structural) conceptual reconfiguration is the outcome of people’s compounded participation with architecture. This involves constructions that reorganize the programs of inhabitation by reflecting our actions in the environment.
	-strategy -mold (RCM-J) -prototyping -testing -construct


			Open Column is a precise calibration of material relationships that yield a predictable structure. Key to its mechanical ingenuity is that it solely relies on the rubber’s material properties for its kinetic and formal performance. Each component’s hard/soft rubber ratio is properly negotiated relative to its location on the structure. This results in a singular but manifold construction whose emergent properties cannot be reduced to the individual performance of its parts. Open Column is an evolving space that exists within a host space. Installed in a series it acts as a responsive skin that people interface with. The columns can be collapsed, fully stretched or any of the other positions in between, with each configuration offering a new set of parameters for inhabitation.
CARA(S)PACE 2: Gravity Screen
	-strategy -mold (RCM-D) -prototyping -testing -construct