Poly-Pocket is a sticky spiral staircase of tensioned spring-capsules. The Individual components are held together using only tension members and friction enhanced by the “stickyness” of soft pvc plastic. The sticky pvc is laid over stiff polypropylene, which uses tension forces to hold the surfaces in active bending. The video above shows the assembly process [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Poly-Pocket: A Sticky Spiral Staircase of Tensioned Spring-Capsules
Posted in Alessio Salvatore Verdolino, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Robert Douglas McKaye, Tobias Grumstrup Lund Øhrstrøm Comments closed
Shell/Geometry
ORIGINAL CONFIGURATION Our base structure was arches joined in a zip-way. We created a surface between and got a vault structure in case of better understanding of structural behavior.
Posted in Shweta Das, Sviatlana Matushko, Uncategorized Comments closed