ENDS 411 Materials and Methods

SHAVONNE YU ENDS 411 MATERIALS AND METHODS

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SKEEGOLF MINIGOLF PARKLET

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BALANCE VOLUMETRIC CANTILEVER

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SAFE TO STEP ROCKITE CAST & MOLD

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SKEEGOLF MINIGOLF PARKLET

Installation Parmida Asadi, Marissa Campbell, Shavonne Yu PVC piping, safety fencing, bamboo, twine, turf, zip ties, thread, cardboard tubes, thermal blanket, duct tape, foam balls, spray paint, plastic cups, plastic cover

PARK(ing) Day is an international annual event where community members create their own one-day pop-up parklets in on-street parking spots. The event takes place on the third Friday of September each year. Our class had the opportunity to turn Vancouver’s busiest shopping street into a minigolf course, with a designated set of materials provided.

Tension and lift played a large part in keeping our structure standing - PVC piping was added as we realized that the safety fencing was much more malleable than anticipated. This initial rendering that I did showed our core concept of blurring the boundaries between shelter and ground plane.

Each design had to incorporate a rainproof shelter, seating space, and golf course. Our design mimics skee ball in our game approach - because the lot was so small, hitting the ball horizontally didn’t make much of a game, so we took it to new heights.

To secure all the different elements together, we devised a system that would allow the materials to act as one sturdy base. This involved drilling holes in each material to be linked via twine to each other.

Tension Cables

Safety Fencing

Bamboo

Plywood Pallet

To assure that the shelter could maintain its structural integrity, bamboo poles were inserted snugly into a plywood base. Safety fencing was wrapped around to provide friction as well as flexibility for where the tension cables would be tied.

Bamboo

Plywood

Wooden Pallet

Safety Fencing

1:25 Model Jocelyn Tang, Shavonne Yu Plywood, paper cups, bamboo, zip ties, paint, fishing wire, rubber grip fabric

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BALANCE VOLUMETRIC CANTILEVER

Starting with a plywood base and a paper cup filled to the brim with water, each group designed and built a cantilever aiming for different categories such as: longest, most volumetric, highest, most minimal, and most innovative details.

Core concepts included distribution of weight, backspans, and the principle where the farther away an object is from the centre of a cantilever, the heavier it is.

Building on this principle, we based our design off of a traditional scale, with objects on both sides of equal weight. The weight of one full cup of water at the end of the cantilever would equal the weight of a volumetric mass of empty cups.

When an equilibrium between the two weights were reached, the cantilever raises itself off of the floor and becomes freestanding.

Taking advantage of the slight curvature of the paper cups, we attached them in modules of 7, creating a sphere.

The base was modified to include a small notch for the bamboo stick, with a small rubber grip placed inside to mitigate slippage.

1:10 Model Solo project Concrete, thermoplastic 3D printing filament

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SAFE TO STEP ROCKITE CAST & MOLD

Each concrete step is cast within a locker, drawing a parallel between the seriality of steps to guests.

Shotglass Icecube Tray

Bucket Lid

Children’s Toy

Bubble Wrap

The relationship between positive and negative is explored through the repurposing of formwork for a rockite cast. Early explorations included casting studies using suspended fabric, enclosing space, and texture patterning. The final product was to be a detail within our studio project.

My studio project surrounded the idea of an everyday water park, serving its citizens as a place to relax, exercise, do their laundry, bathe, and sing kareoke. The mold for the stair is a locker inside this complex where visitors can safely store their items. This project relates the seriality of lockers with the seriality of stairs.

The final rockite cast is of a stair, with a crevice for water to flow through. A texture on the surface prevents slippage when trod upon.

On the bottom is a number, which corresponds to the locker number that is was cast from.

Visitors will experience a moment of recognition when spotting the step with the same number as the locker they had previously used..

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