Rice Architecture
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Roy Chou, Barbora Malikova, Evan Glenzinski, Joshua Webb
How can we utilize organic natural elements within a system to demonstrate tension and compression equilibrium? Twigs, discs, and post-tensioned cables explore the balance of tension and compression through organic and architectural forms. Twigs were carefully selected for length, pliability, and interconnection, then balanced into columns, arches, and other variations. A seemingly precarious stack is made rigid through tensioned cables, and the possibility of iterations: subversion of structural hierarchies, multiplicity, exaggeration, cantilever, and arch. The result is a series of experimental models that merge natural irregularity with precise structural logic, revealing both the limitations and possibilities of equilibrium.
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