This reminds me so much of ID school, when last-minute disaster would strike in the studio.
Here we see the Fabrication Workshop, a 7,000-square-foot facility at SUNY Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning.
Students taking the Structures III course investigate structural members as design elements themselves, and build their projects in the Fabrication Workshop in teams.
Student Team Group 04 had an unlucky break this week, with their Tensioned Sheet project: They were attempting to cast concrete using a burlap form, hoisting the form upright from a ring as the concrete set. Then disaster struck:
“Sometimes projects don’t go as planned, but with a little teamwork big things can happen,” writes the Fab Workshop. “The team worked together quickly to reattach the fabric form to the frame, before the concrete could set.”
“The final photo is it pulled back into shape!”
“The remaining concrete coats will go on this week to solidify the form further. Then it will be released to stand on its own. Once it is complete we can post the finished piece along with the other full scale concrete tests from the course! The project will be finishing up this week.”
Student Team Group 04 consists of: Emily Bombardier, Madison Stafford, Alli Presutti, Irfanul Chowdhury, Ryan Allgaier, Juliet Luers, Dom Peracciny, and Jessica Renn.