Showing posts with label Egg Crates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egg Crates. Show all posts

5/12/2009

Surface Structures, Double Curvatures, and Egg Crates

















Yurt has been hard at work weaving together egg crates and playing with the various forms. Thus far we have produces 5+ units of 2 x 1 meter sheets of sliced egg crates. On Monday, Rebecca journeyed back to the place where egg crates are born, in Netanya, to buy another 6 packages. So far we have already cut up 4 of them.
We think that there have been two major breakthroughs this week in terms of our building technology. The first breakthrough came with the realization (a number of people arrived at this conclusion simultaneously) that if we cut single units and wove them into our sheets, we would make the sheets lighter, save material, create fenestration and allow ourselves the possibility of playing with an endless number of patterns that could liven up the monotony of our single design. We have made a few sheets with some experimental patterns, and will continue to do so.
The second breakthrough, which came this morning, has to do with the edge of the sheet. Our sheets are four cut egg crates wide: ~~~~ At three points there are overlaps, but at each edge there is not. This means that the edges are not nearly as tightly packed as the insides. We realized that if we run a wire through the outside edges and tighten them, the edges will cup and create a curvature that will strengthen the would structure.
We think that if we widen our sheets and continue to decrease the number of egg crates, we can achieve a situation in which the top cups in and makes a dome. We aren't yet sure that this is the form we want our final structure to take, but we are very excited about this discovery.

5/04/2009

New Concepts in Egg Crates







Today we disassembled our existing installation, recycled all its parts, and began work on a new concept. We aren't sure where it will lead, but we're plunging in head first nonetheless. Below are some images and a video that begins to illustrate the potential for this new system.


5/01/2009

Egg Carton Remainders






Here are a few early pictures of the thinly-sliced egg carton edges. More experimentation to follow:

4/06/2009

Egg Crate Factory



On Thursday, April 2, 2009, two-thirds of YURT went to the Hartmann-MAI factory in the Old Industrial Area of Netanya. We purchased six packages of 140 17 lb egg cartons. The factory was currently producing 20 lb cartons, so we were given another 50 cartons of that size as a bonus.
The factory is owned by Hartmann, a company based in Denmark. They are one of the companies responsible for placing and servicing the paper recycling receptacles around Israel. Paper is retrieved, mashed into pulp, purified and treated chemically. It is then shaped on a mold and fired in an oven for twenty minutes. The company also produces berry trays and bedpans for hospital use. In other countries, it makes high-end egg cartons as well.
Music: Albert on the Beach (For an Eggman) by Counting Crows.

3/20/2009

YURT - Egg Crate Construction and Yurts Galore





And a short presentation on Past and Present Yurts


Here is a link for converting powerpoint presentations to videos:
http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/convert-powerpoint-video-upload-youtube-ppt-dvd/2978/