For the last 3 days Sibyl and I have been trying to sort out and hopefully get two site models laser cut out of steel for assembly at Uni. The idea is each model is made up of sections which cut through the site, sounds easy but its not, the more you get into it the more problem that crop up, like the logistics of assembling such large sections of steel in terms of weight and the structure to support such a heavy model.
Random Lines
You would not believe how hard it is to draw random lines! Having tried to draw our own random lines, using various methods like closing our eyes and scribbling on paper and a weak attempt at writing a script for it which only produced one line we remember the Cecil Balmond lecture that we went to earlier in the year where for the Serpentine gallery they using a 3-2 rotation algorithm to produce an ordered choas. i know this is a bit of a rip off but time was getting on.
Once we had the cecil template we offset the centre and extended the lines to larger box then overlaid it onto each of the resective sites. The idea was also to make the actually site a more dense construction of sections so the template was scaled down by 50% and overlaid again.
Wire frame of the sections!
These were just some rough rendering of the Victoria deep water model with no legs, it's still very sketchy but these were only produced to help the manufacturers understand what we wanted to do so we could get a more accurate quote.
Finished DXF that was sent with the images of the model to manufacturers to get a quote. I have already heard back from one who said she'd get back to me by tuesday with the final quote. The trouble is because this is all new to us, obviously we don't really have a clue about price so the model might have to be simplfied or scaled down to fit into budget and the cabilities of the laser cutters. But we'll keep you informed of the quotes.
