After a week we meet again.
This time it was at BMS College of Architecture and Engineering. Jackson had been working with the architecture students for the past week and they had already created quite a lot. So we started with some mingling with our BMS counterparts and jointly mixed a lot of soil, fiber and water into clay. After making mud balls we proceeded towards the BMS students' installation. They had created a sitting area inside the building. It was quite good and we were free to help, we were informed.
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Now BMS has a huge campus, so we went past the huge basketball, right now in a dilapidated condition due to the of unearthing soil around it. So we had to create an installation for the college and got to the site for it. We started weaving bamboos across each other and got quite an enormous structure. We secured the joints with nylon zip locks. We experimented with the different shapes and structures that could be made out of it. We were basically learning the tensile strength of the structure by bending it to an extent that gives it tension but also makes it very strong.In the end we settled for an S shaped structure which was closed off from one side, so it looked like a cylinder with a curved tail.
After lunch, we got back to work. We started cross weaving to fill in the gaps, so that it would be easy to put on the clay. Wherever necessary we secured the structure with nylon zip locks and string. After we were sure that the structure was well weaved, we cut it in an uneven shape,which gave a wave like look to it. We secured the cut ends, filled in whatever gaps we could find and put bricks along the ends, both from inside and outside to keep it upright. We also put some thick wood pieces on the inside to give it extra support.
That was all for the day. We gave each other some good back massages and went back home, tired and as always muddy.
This time it was at BMS College of Architecture and Engineering. Jackson had been working with the architecture students for the past week and they had already created quite a lot. So we started with some mingling with our BMS counterparts and jointly mixed a lot of soil, fiber and water into clay. After making mud balls we proceeded towards the BMS students' installation. They had created a sitting area inside the building. It was quite good and we were free to help, we were informed.
Now BMS has a huge campus, so we went past the huge basketball, right now in a dilapidated condition due to the of unearthing soil around it. So we had to create an installation for the college and got to the site for it. We started weaving bamboos across each other and got quite an enormous structure. We secured the joints with nylon zip locks. We experimented with the different shapes and structures that could be made out of it. We were basically learning the tensile strength of the structure by bending it to an extent that gives it tension but also makes it very strong.In the end we settled for an S shaped structure which was closed off from one side, so it looked like a cylinder with a curved tail.
After lunch, we got back to work. We started cross weaving to fill in the gaps, so that it would be easy to put on the clay. Wherever necessary we secured the structure with nylon zip locks and string. After we were sure that the structure was well weaved, we cut it in an uneven shape,which gave a wave like look to it. We secured the cut ends, filled in whatever gaps we could find and put bricks along the ends, both from inside and outside to keep it upright. We also put some thick wood pieces on the inside to give it extra support.
That was all for the day. We gave each other some good back massages and went back home, tired and as always muddy.
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