The Triangle Collective

We, The Triangle Collective, is a group of 3 students studying Architecture at the University of Auckland who are participating in the annual Auckland Architecture Weekend 2010 competition- SKYRISE city.

The event will be held on 16th October 2010 in Sheds 1+2 on 135 Halsey Street, Auckland CBD.

The competition brief is to design a 8m tall skyrise with a 2m x 2m square footprint at the bottom.

Our Design 4 group brief is Recasting, where we have to recast an everyday material and put it into an environment that we will not normally associate the material to.

The blog is to note down important sessions, crits and experiments throughout our design process from the beginning to the night of the event.

Hope you enjoy the project as much as we do.

Thanks for your support,
Cameron, Kassidy and Kelvin @ The Triangle Collective

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

03.10.2010- 06.10.2010 Tamaki Session

WOAH ~ 10 days left! and our group is starting to get desparate and stressed. Working everyday, sewing, cutting, measuring, thinking, hastily trying to finish in time for the competition.
We cant believe how well we can work under time pressure, no time wasting at all.
Our project is still 2D, flat on the ground so we dont even know if it will work. It should. It has to.
Hopefully it will be done by the end of the week so we have time to fix problems.

Our working bay is becoming a mess.

Close up of the Sewing in the connection. Double sewing to strengthen the connections



Using long strips of wood to measure and tape the triangle size of the blanket. We need to do 48 of these modules.



Laying out our module on the ground. Its actually bigger than we thought.

different piles of tubes- need to cut and sew. need to sew connections. finished sewing.
Hury! 10 days only!
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