Surfaces

Last week the floor is concreted in and the rendering is done. Sadly my photocamera isn’t working anymore.  I’m taking pictures with the video camera or use stills from the video but the quality is not great.

Now the bricks are gone the surface comes to the foreground and we see the wall as one curving warped surface. I’ve tried to sharpen it by giving the top of the wall an edge. Now its waiting to get it all dry for painting. Swatton will finish the site with leveling the soil and lay grass turf .

Edge and floor

Subbase

We were lucky to finish the brickwork last week while it was still dry. Now we hope to construct the concrete floor, which will be cast on the subbase.

The images of today show the compacted ‘MOT Type 1′ and an indication of the shape or edge of the concrete. We will add to the concrete some black dye to colour it as dark as possible. The triangular line in the floor will be steel, and refers to the string used to create the shape of the ellipse with three foci. I used strings to draw this shape at the beginning to sketch and draw the initial ideas and Robin Hankin created an algorithm to make it possible to model it in 3D. Now its great to see the result of this mixture of digital and tactile way of working.

Today the Project group (Reps of University, Rolls-Royce and CDC)  had a meeting about the opening. Probably somewhere in November but more about that later…