Form and Function
The objective of this project is to analyze function within a structure and to see whether the structure’s form should express its function, or should it be its own independent function. This would give the students a deeper understanding of form and function involvement in architectural development. Within this project we did porotypes of 3 bridges and 3 functions and incorporated within one another. This gave the students an opportunity to have more than one solution to one problem. After analyzing different types of solutions, students picked which would be a better design to their solution. Our concept was to take a normal bride and transform it into a moving bride with an opening of 30x40. Within my design I choose a truss bridge and transferred it into a movable bride using crankshaft movement an order to operate.
The three bridges I choose to analyze were Sydney Harbour (Arched Bridge), Forth bridge (Cantilever bridge), Aiken street bridge (Truss bridge). These three bridges began a(n) ideal starting point to incorporate my moving mechanisms.
The three objects that I choose were two from a children’s toy and one for a children’s safety cabinet lock. I choose the joker toy Imaginext, within this toy it has two types of movement. It incorporates a hand-cracked movement and gears/pinion. The children’s cabinet lock assimilates a string-load mechanism.
3 X 3 Grid:
Preliminary:
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