A cluster of three bike frames, that was developed in previous studies on compact cells, is used as a spatial module.
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Cluster 1 : BIKE-FRAMES | warm-up analysis
While working with our idealized proto-bike-frame we soon realized that the reality differs quite a bit and most bike-frames out there do not have parallel head and seat tubes. Even though their angles do not match by only a couple of degrees, it renders a large percentage of the cells we intuitively found so far obsolete. When we picture a classical Gaussian bell curve, our (educated) guess* is, that the number of bike frames whose head and seat tubes are colinear falls at least in the area of two standard deviations, if not three…
Cluster 1 : BIKE-FRAMES | warm-up studies
Even though Vienna’s waste management agency, the MA 48, according to their own information, is collecting around 2500 abandoned bicycles within the city borders per year, it has turned out to be unbelievably difficult to get hold of any. Once an object has been officially qualified as “trash” (meaning: ended up in a dumpster – which is quite self-evidently always owned by someone – or simply being touched by official “waste management” personnel it seems) it is near to impossible to declassify it as such, and save it from being burnt, shredded, or melted back into undefined formless matter.
“In fact, it has been shown that over 70 percent of the total waste generated in Germany is held as fractions in technological processes (Statistisches Bundesamt, 2015b). However, the ambitious, technological goals of the circular economy have led to a strong separation between the individual and the institutional level.
The established waste system with its regulations can therefore also be perceived as a closed “waste regime” (Gille, 2007, 9; Reno, 2009, 21).“*
Ritzmann, S. and Birkhäuser Verlag (2018) Wegwerfen, Entwerfen : Müll im Designprozess – Nachhaltigkeit in der Designdidaktik, p. 32. Basel.
But we might have finally found a loop-hole and also possible other sources; so Lukas and I won’t have to go “Bonnie & Clyde” to get us a sample set. And this is our first legally aquired specimen:
Active connection-parts
Following up on the previous study, but mainly in continuation of studying systems with connection-parts, aggregation systems with active connection-parts are tested.
Graph Grammar
Continuing the study on cell closing, aggregations are formed partially using graph grammar.
Cell closing
Continuing the study on inter-connected structures, an aggregation is modified using the part transform functionality in WASP and Galapagos with the goal to find a closed cell in a given sequence of parts.
Connection-parts
Continuing the study on inter-connected structures, stochastic aggregations with a single transformed part type are stitched together by a second part type to create cross-connections.
Inter-connected frameworks
Building on a general aim from our previous project, this study investigates a discrete design system for inter-connected spatial structures.
Discrete Reuse
Reading through Ákos Moravánszky’s incredibly dense article “Der Kreislauf der Bausteine…” in Eva Stricker, et.al., Bauteile wiederverwenden, 2021, I found this astonishing project from the 1970s..
