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Mamou-Mani, Maker by Louis Postel | Jan 5, 2017 | Ask Louis, Graphisoft, Grasshopper, Rhino Connection | 0 comments
Like explorers heading their tiny craft upstream, a pair of bicyclists oat over the sands of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. A dust storm shrouds them from 60,000 more inhabitants of their pop-up metropolis at the 2016 Burning Man Festival, known as Black Rock City. While the bicyclists advance left, a 30-foot dream-like, ame-shaped apparition approximately 30 feet high appears to shift right. Four years in the making, the challenge the building of this tower posed to its French architect, Arthur Mamou-Mani, his students at the University of Westminster in the UK, and his project’s 114 Kickstarter backers was this: how to make an inspiring structure, a beacon to the festival’s youth that points the way to a new kind of architecture, one in which the architect is once again the maker. “If you’re an architect just handing plans over to someone else to build, you can’t test what you’ve designed. We need to return to the time when the great cathedrals were built, and the Maker Movement can do that, open up an era of Master Builders where there is no separation between architects, engineers, and builders,” says Mamou-Mani. Mamou-Mani calls his response to this lofty challenge Tangential Dreams. It takes the form of a climbable, winding, temporary tower made from straight, run-of-the-mill, timbers. While it’s impossible to imagine Demna Gvasalia of Balenciaga tweaking a gown made of burlap, or Paul Bucose mixing https://blog.graphisoftus.com/graphisoft/mamoumanimaker