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

Saturday, October 2, 2010

29.09.2010 - 02.10.2010 Tamaki Sessions

For the past week, we've been working at Tamaki every single day. After finishing a 1:1 prototype of the tube structure, as shown from the previous post, we have started on making the final thing.


Sewing Plastic connections from the 1:1 prototype

1:1 prototype inflated with a 1m x 1m x 1m equilateral trianglular base

Size in relation to little small minion


Net showing the structure and names of each parts. This net is the final design of the module. the top 8 levels consists of 6 triangles with base 2m and height 1m. The last level is more complicated to fit into a square base from a triangular prism at the top. This is to make more space to hide our blowers and lighting.
Emergency blankets will be sewn over each of the seams, cladding it and hiding the tubes.



Kas cutting plastic into strips for tubes




All the tubes cut and sorted into piles. We cut strips of wood into 2m long lengths that acted like a ruler




The different connections between each tubes. We made laser cut templates that we traced over.



layout of our module on the ground. It's actually quite big.


Hexagon connection for 6 tubes at a point



Pentagons for 5 tubes at a point



We used masking tape to make a seam line for the sewing to follow.


Watching gossip girl! Finished the first season in 2 days
2 weeks left guys!! Good luck XD
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