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ITERATION 2
MATERIALS USED: SPANDEX
FABRIC, WOOD, CONCRETE
MIX
VARIABLES: DOWEL
THICKNESS, MODEL HEIGHT,
STEEL BEAM MODEL
KEY TAKEAWAYS: THIS
METHOD COULD WORK BUT
IN FUTURE MORE
EXPERIMENTATION IS
NEEDED
For this iteration we used 3/4”
diameter dowels with heights of
8”-11”. The completed concrete
cast was 1’6” tall, 9” wide and
6”-12” thick at any given point.
The
concrete mixture used was 1
part water and 2 parts Portland
cement.
This mold was created in the
same way as iteration 1 but was
9” tall and the dowels were 3/4”
in diameter. A model of a steel
beam was made out of plywood
so that we could create two
halves of a column that would be
placed over a steel beam. The
fabric was placed and clamped
ready to go. The concrete was
then mixed and poured and then
the “steel beam” was inserted.
to keep the beam in extra pieces
of wood were placed on top and
the cast was left for 24 hours.
The indentation that was
created on the back of the cast
was too tight to allow the beam
to fit in any other way aside from
its original position.
Ideas from later iteration would
be combined to allow the casts
to be stacked.
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