MATLAB PARTITION
DESIGN TEAM: Sydney Mainster, Travis Cook
MY ROLE: Project Manager, Fabricator
The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture's COOP Material Resources Collection commissioned me in 2012 to install a folding partition in the MatLab Materials Library at UT Austin. The concept springs from 'element as signage'. The lettering, visible when the partition is in the banked position, affects complex geometries occurring on the faces of the partition in the deployed position. Rhino and Grasshopper are used to generate 2D geometries. Using a CNC router and a 120 degree V bit, the 2D geometry manifests in a complex play of resulting facets and interwoven textures, which reveal the material in the third dimensions. Bamboo plywood are used to construct the hollow core panels.
