NaturalsCool South Africa

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Mod. 1 | OVER THE EDGE: a course on Sculptural Architecture

A smart sequence of practical exercises and in-depth discussions on how to dance with flat, singly curved and doubly curved surfaces in unexpected ways. It's not just a course, it's an experience that'll change how you think about architecture. It's the stuff you were never taught at Varsity!

CAPE TOWN: 8, 9, 10 November 2018
from 8:45am to 4:50pm, Kalk Bay
JOHANNESBURG: 25, 26, 27 October 2018
from 8:45am to 4:50pm, Bryanston

R5950 per person | 6 CPD credits

BOOK NOW: https://www.naturalscool.com/courses/module-1/
More info: [email protected]

FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

GOING OVER THE EDGE: Course on Sculptural Architecture

Are you happy with the amount of originality you are expressing in your designs?
Are you satisfied with your present level of creative influence and impact?

GOTE is a three day hands-on experience that gives you a solid foundation to design sculptural buildings, interiors and environments.

Date: 15, 16 and 17th March 2018
Venue: at Little Stream Constantia - Cape Town

BOOK NOW: https://www.naturalscool.com/courses/module-1/
More info, write to us: [email protected]

UPCOMING 2018 COURSE in Cape Town:
March, 15, 16 & 17th

GOING OVER THE EDGE is a three day hands-on experience that gives you a solid foundation to design sculptural buildings, interiors and environments.

Our purpose is not to teach a specific way to do architecture but a design process to enhance your own and unique creative expression.

BOOK NOW: https://www.naturalscool.com/courses/module-1/

UPCOMING 2018 COURSE: March, 15, 16 & 17th

GOING OVER THE EDGE gives you a solid foundation to design sculptural buildings, interiors and environments.
This three day hands-on experience will have you designing outside the box in a way that is practical, beautiful and imaginative.

BOOK NOW: https://www.naturalscool.com/courses/module-1/

The reciprocal roof structure we were involved in at Jackals Kloof Biodynamic farm and training centre in South Africa.

An interesting talk in Cape Town, South Africa

Our latest exciting project, a Pool Room constructed from a free form timber lattice structure. Elle and I made the card board model, hanging it upside down at different angles in the studio to generate catenary curves from the strings.

We hardened these, inverted the model and photographed them to produce a 3D Rhino surface model on computer. It was generated with a series of catenary curved struts.

We made a small scale model in the garden to test the accuracy of the system. This was a fun week at the end of last year. This was a slightly different shape and a different construction method but based on the free form lattice system.

We e-mailed this as a complete item to Christian in Namibia and he manufactured the laminated beams, including the helix beams, directly from our model. He at times did 1:1 templates. He will soon be using a lazar projector to generate the profiles on the factory floor from the ceiling at perfect scale. His full scale is within 60mm accuracy to our 3D computer model!

The surfaces are single but mostly doubly curved. The structure is completely demountable and will be transported to Cape Town in due course to be erected on site.

This moves us into a new field of being able to generate sculptural forms with timber and lattice structures that arre enormously structurally efficient while being aesthetically delightful.

Thanks to Elle McIntyre and Christian Hesse for their amazing contribution.