WEEK 6
The Textile Scaffold

Choose 2 out of 3 techniques:

1.Use the method of concrete fabric forming to shape your fabric mold ( advanced: used 3D modeling software to simulate your fabric deformation, laser cut pattern of fabric)

2.Choose one Crystal and create a textile medium for the crystal growth

3.Create a CNC 3D mold and a textile composite

Class 6
  • SoftwareSublime, Adobe Ilustrator, rinhoceros, Grasshoper
  • MachinesLaser Trotec speedy 400 flex
  • MaterialsPlaywood, tape,concret
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Crystallization Wood textile

How to make textile scaffold

Laser Cut mold + textile

With the laser cutter I cut a 3mm mdf sheet with a pattern of circles, to try the fabric. The fabric did not stay inside the holes so, together with Oye, we decided to add the remaining wood from the cut inside the holes to keep the shape.

Adding the concrete

Then we mixed water and concrete to insert it into the holes created with the laser.

Details of the concret inside the textile

Here we can see the detail of the texture before and after adding the concrete. Personally, I really like how the pattern has been.

Concrete + wood

We need 4 cups of 250 ml of concrete to fill the entire surface, since most of the material went into the holes.

The concrete is dry

Here we can see the final result with a symmetrical but organic pattern, where you can appreciate the texture of the fabric and the wood.

Problems

The initial idea was to extract the fabric from the concrete, but the concrete adhered to the wood, and we could not extract it, so we decided to put the kettle in hot water to make it soft and remove it. The prototype was submerged 2 weeks in water but still too rigid to remove the wood without damaging the final result.