After being assigned the Wosk residence by Frank Gehry, I decided to focus on one particular material within the house: corrugated aluminum. There is a unique bar in this house, wrapped in this material, with a similar column rising out of it.
I was interested in corrugated aluminum’s ability to form a ‘wall’, but also to bend around a perfectly circular column. After a formal study, I decided to apply this material onto multiple surfaces around the room and also wrap the room entire in a continuous sheet, to observe how it curves and snakes around the furniture.
Using my formal study of corrugated metal and continuous ribbon, I decided to divide the room wrapper from P1 into three parts and weave it in and out of a section of my shed. Doing this allowed me to observe its interaction with the shed, how it may curve along the floor, create a hole in the wall, and move in and out of the bow truss structure. For P2 I was assigned the bow truss structure and creating an interplay of structure and the new material was important.
For the final phase, I decided to continue with the idea of the corrugated curve creating useable space, and apply it to my kindergarten-turned warehouse. I created more curves by lofting my existing three, then splicing them across the warehouse at a ten degree angle. This not only creates interesting cuts of space at the beginning and ends of the warehouse, but also creates a sort of mass of a ‘blob’ so all the curves have some relation across.
The individual strips of metal create unique conditions within themselves, with some breaking out of the walls, and some forcing the walls in to make up for space with new interior walls, as the secodary materials respond to these conditions by the outside coming in (concrete) or the wood floors continuing outside.
The space created by the corrugated curves is for students to play and learn on, teachers to sit and work on, and for the shed to react and respond to.