Adaptive Cellular Structure | 活动立方

From the source of the experiment, the dynamic movement from the horse’s tail swings as the beginning of the experiment. To make a mechanical structure that can be linked, in order to break through the limitations of two-dimensional motion, the basic components are changed into three-dimensional form, and finally the component – the active cube is produced.

从实验的源点起,从马尾摆动的动态事件,作为实验的开始。制作可以联动的机械结构,为了突破二维的运动局限,将基础元件改为三维的形态,最终产生了单元体——活动立方。

在底面相连,数量为9个的⽴方单元体组成的系统中,每个单元体产生的变化,将这个整体演化成了一个适应性很强的多变结构,于是:什么才是这个系统的不同之处呢?这个由人的运动催生演化成的结构,如何与人体二次发生关系呢? 

In a system consisting of a number of cubic components connected to the bottom, the changes produced by each unit transform the whole into a highly adaptable multi-structure, so: What is the system? What is the difference? How does this structure evolved from human movements, and how does it relate to the human body?

随即,在其尺度的改变上,延展它能实现的种种可能,如果它与人等大,则人体需要与它互相适应,因它灵活多变的结构,可以允许人体的多数自由行卧,人体的动态能够成为一个有规律的带动机关,使它产生几种类别的变化样式。如课题之初,利用人身体的摆动记录痕迹一样,不同的是,作为一个系统,其单元体之间的联动性并不是整体的,其随机性也是通过机械装置产生的不可控效果。

Immediately, in the change of its scale, it can extend the possibilities that it can achieve. If it is large with people, the human body needs to adapt to it. Because of its flexible structure, it can allow most of the human body to walk freely. The dynamics can become a regular driving mechanism that allows it to produce several categories of variations. As at the beginning of the project, the use of the human body’s oscillating record marks is the same. The difference is that, as a system, the linkage between the unit bodies is not integral, and its randomness is also an uncontrollable effect produced by mechanical devices.

这个系统的趣味在于它认可了任意的因素,手⼯与物质间作用所产生的不可控,是感性的,存在物质本身的语言。这之中有一个空隙,即这个立⽅结构悬挂在完善的数学结构和生动的实物作用之间,手⼯和机械磨合出的模棱两可的张力却让人难忘。 

Project Name: Adaptive Cellular Cubic Structure
Course: CAFA Body Space Studio
Student: Zhao Yanan, Li Yiping
Course Director: Feng Xu, Shiqi Li, Liqun Zhao, Lichun Wang