After Hurricane Harvey, my professor felt it appropriate to assign a project based on the data collected about the rainfall. The class was tasked with learning how to build a nerve surface in Revit 23 and then create a curve where the points represented a different city during different days. The
students then worked as a class to model the surface using irrigation tubing, playing cards, wood- en dowels, and 3D printed joints. The students were broken into groups of five to create a 3x6 foot section of the curve. The surface Kyle constructed was made from copper wire, plywood, PVC sheets, and staples.
students then worked as a class to model the surface using irrigation tubing, playing cards, wood- en dowels, and 3D printed joints. The students were broken into groups of five to create a 3x6 foot section of the curve. The surface Kyle constructed was made from copper wire, plywood, PVC sheets, and staples.
My team decided to use two different construction techniques in creating the surface. One technique was interlocking triangles tied with copper wire. This was partially to explore how to connect different surfaces together but also an exploration in trimming down the amount of waste material. The second method utilized by the group was shingling. Shingling is the use of module overlapping squares to create a surface. A portion of this experiment was to see if triangles could be compacted easier on a sheet compared to squares. The void in the center of the surface symbolizes the pain and loss that Houston felt after the hurricane. The supporting structure for the surface resembles the branches of a live oak, the symbol of Houston. This symbolically represents how even though Houston took a lot of damage and is hurting, it will come back strong and that everyone will work together.
