A Basic Design Exercise

by Tuğrul Yazar | December 23, 2012 01:15

This was last year, Salih Küçüktuna had organized a one-day exercise at the first-year Basic Design studio. It was a quite successful event, both emphasizing the fundamentals of contemporary design ideas and also being very pedagogical regarding the method. We asked students to bring blank regular business cards and staples to the studio. The main idea was to design a component and multiply it to create a structure that spans a given distance. The results were very interesting regarding the time and resources used in the studio day. There were two main approaches to the spanning structure (as Salih expected); one of them was the “surface” model that utilizes components in a fashion that cards would lie tangent to the spanning surface. The second was the “component” model which uses cards to populate components perpendicularly. Here are some results of that exercise;

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