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

Sunday, October 10, 2010

07.10.2010 - 09.10.2010 Tamaki Session

Working very hard for the past few days, we are trying to get our tubes done as quickly as possible. We got told on fri that our health and safety officer will be seeing us on monday to see whether we can actually make our structure on the night. If it's too dangerous, they can cancel our participation.


We really need some sponsorship from v's.. going through at least 1 a day for the past week and we think we've grown immune to caffine to fight fatigue.



Our tubes connected in one layer of the net size of the blankets relative to the tubes

testing out against strobe lights


Cameron and Kassidy sewing connections with a pile of tubes caught between their legs


Both layers of tube ready to be sewn on top of each other to form a net
Posting at 2.30 am isn't fun. Need to sleep now. Goodnight.
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