SUBSTRACTION

SUBSTRACTION

 

PLACE: MUNICH, GERMANY
YEAR: 2017
TYPE: ACADEMIC WORK
PROF: PROF. DIPL.-ING. UTA GRAFF, CHAIR OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND CONCEPTION, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN
TEAM: LENA ALLEKOTTE, FELIX SCHRÖDER & ARMIN ASCHENBRENNER

For this project, the assigned task was to create a subtractive object inside a volume of 21x21x21cm. The chosen solution was reduced to the minimum intervention necessary to change the tectonic structure of the cube into a Möbius-band-like object by inserting two 6mm wide cuts which touch in the center. This was realised in plaster, using three thin plexiglas sheets for each cut, enabling to remove the middle sheet and then the lateral ones without damaging the cast.