Digital Sketching | Impossible Clay

(fig.a) Digital Sketching | Impossible Clay

Current development of formed-clay features on a water-shedding surface. While the construction of the clay-components involve a process including 3d printed clay forms and hand-made forms. Each piece is joined together in Daoist temple- like precision. Overtime I would expect the glazing to wear and chipping might occur on the repetitive units. The components are joined by aluminum dowels which snap into place for a quick assembly. As with most of the parametric fetish, of which this is not generative form, the pieces and construction documentation is certainly an elaborate puzzle for the builder. Luckily, the economic spur of the local construction force will relieve this temporary architectural burden. In fact, the bas-reliefs along the facades thereof will include depictions of this fastidious construction endeavor as simulated on the local architecture here in Taiwan.  At the outset, the fabrication force for this large of a roof foot-print requires 50 laborers snapping the bits into place by a regular scaffold below. 

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