C2Strategy

Gravity Screen is the result of a novel reconfigurable mold (RCM-D) that uses precut templates as formwork. These templates are added onto the mold to orchestrate sequences of hard and soft rubber pours. By modulating the width of the hard rubber the rubber begins to yield different gravitational resistance across its surface. The wider the hard rubber pour the greater the resistance. Like a fabric loom the reconfigurable mold builds layers upon layers of rubber whose final gravitation performance is an emergent property of this process.

Gravity Screen is a responsive structure in that its properties, formal and performative are a direct result of a relationship between materials, tectonics and gravitational forces. It is responsive in that it doesn’t take these relationships to be static and universal but evolving and hence alterable.


CARA(S)PACE 1: Open Column		Gravity Screen is a responsive architecture whose formal composition results from gravity’s effect on its material patterning. Composed from two elastomers of different shore hardness the screen is developed as a system that takes an organized form when hung and subjected to gravitational forces. Rubber’s high weight to volume ratio makes it particularly problematic as a self supporting structural material. However when rubber is properly calibrated it can offer resistance to gravitational pull. This comes from crisscrossing hard and soft rubber allowing the first to give the pattern structure while the second gives it form.
	-strategy -mold (RCM-J) -prototyping -testing -construct


			Gravity Screen is the result of a novel reconfigurable mold (RCM-D) that uses precut templates as formwork. These templates are added onto the mold to orchestrate sequences of hard and soft rubber pours. By modulating the width of the hard rubber the rubber begins to yield different gravitational resistance across its surface. The wider the hard rubber pour the greater the resistance. Like a fabric loom the reconfigurable mold builds layers upon layers of rubber whose final gravitation performance is an emergent property of this process. Gravity Screen is a responsive structure in that its properties, formal and performative are a direct result of a relationship between materials, tectonics and gravitational forces. It is responsive in that it doesn’t take these relationships to be static and universal but evolving and hence alterable.

CARA(S)PACE 2: Gravity Screen
	-strategy -mold (RCM-D) -prototyping -testing -construct