I've been thinking about how to retain a desirable level of flexibility in the roof structure and a way of reducing the volume of the form when compacted. Some of the spacing techniques that I've been thinking of are a bit too clunky, unresolved and inefficient.
One of my next tasks is to model something similar to the images shown here from 'Digital Fabrications'. A key part of this will be materiality. Ideally, I would like this to be made of a very flexible plastic.
....but anyway, turns out many of my ideas and the terminology I have been using to describe them has already been thought of by someone else.....
[to be continued]
