COMPOSITE WING
RMIT Design Hub Melbourne Australia
2014
The composite fibre installation compresses surface, structure and ornament into one intricate and irreducible assemblage. The complexity of the project is made possible through the development of robotic fabrication techniques including the extrusion of the fine scale surface articulation.
CREDIT
Project Team: Roland Snooks, Cam Newnham, Drew Busmire, Amaury Thomas, Pei She Lee.
Structural Engineering: Bollinger+Grohmann Engineers / Sascha Bohnenberger, Clemens Preisinger, Robert Vierlinger.
Fibreglass Fabrication: Composite Constructions / Steve Campbell
Client: RMIT Design Hub / Curators: Fleur Watson + Kate Rhodes
RMIT Fabrication Team: Wen Yap, Milou van Min, Franco Zagato, Farah Rozhan, Sebastian Nicht, Jack Mansfield-Hung, Chris Ferris, Jesse Thomas, Emily Cipriani, Scohldun Beaver, Yee Shuian Sang, Say Huang Tan, Tim Cameron, Simone Tchonova, Kei Jin Pook, Yuxi Cheng, Jonathan Kim, Pat Anglin, Matt Ellis, Vincent Lai, Edmund Olowo, Fahimeh Mosavari, Sanghan Gang, Lijun Loy, Stephen Annett, Tuyen Tran.
The surface gains its strength through the location of the articulation that operates as structural beams within the surface. This strategy enables the surface to remain only a few millimeters thick while spanning and cantilevering considerable distances.
Composite Wing
