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Todd Grant, University of Detroit-Mercy
T HE project here is to develop a living environment that allows the user to create different spatial configurations based on their own wants and desires for habitation. Each component has one atypical seating position. Five other orientations form arches, walls and places to lie. The different components are connected with two spliced bottom brackets (axles and bearings) from a BMX bicycle. these act as a pin, creating a freely rotating connection. The pin is set-screwed inside a precision milled aluminum block. These aluminum blocks are held in grid coordinates by laser-cut mild steel. This enables the building components to be in any orentation and to form load-bearing structures.The latticework of bending plywood joins one of the laser-cut pieces (nodes) to another, making fragmentary pieces of a negative space, seats or a climbing apparatus in lieu of stairs. Once fully assembled the whole structure is free to move, minus one point of anchoring, like a giant mobile spinning on the ground.
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