Tessellation

A tessellated plane seen in street brickwork.

Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.

Wallpaper of Painted porcelain, China

"a collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps.... In Latin, tessella is a small cubical piece of clay, stone or glass used to make mosaics.^[1]"


"For an infinite tiling, let a be the average number of sides of a polygon, and b the average number of sides meeting at a vertex. Then (a − 2)(b − 2) = 4. For example, we have the combinations "

"Coxeter groups in the plane with equivalent diagrams. Domain mirrors are labeled as edge m1, m2, etc. Vertices are colored by their reflection order. The prismatic group [I^~₁xI^~₂] is shown as a doubling of the C^~₂, but can also be created as rectangular domains from doubling the H^~₂ triangles. The A^~₂ is a doubling of the H^~₂ triangle."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter%E2%80%93Dynkin_diagram

Thanks to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Example of wallpaper group type p4g. From ''The Grammar of Ornament'' (1856), by Owen Jones. Chinese No 1 (plate 59).

Modular beauty

"King’s College Chapel, an example of late Gothic architecture, was built from 1446 onwards, over a period of 100 years."

King’s College Chapel at Cambridge


Big Ben in London

What can be seen in these ancient Gothic buildings is repeated modules. The notion of modules doesn't necessarily imply a "modular" construction technique, in fact the building components for these examples is of a fraction of the scale compared to the immediately visible modules.

It must be remembered that any form could be referred to as a module, the stones that form these buildings are indead modules on a small scale. Also interesting is that every Gothic stone probably came out of a workshop (aneX factory) individually labeled for their position in the assembly. many of them would have been identical because of the repetitive language of the structure. this simple arrangement makes the manufacturing of the building components far simpler as they can be done on mass.

Just as the good drawer draws like some bite their nails, the good workshop produces modular components  incessantly, constantly increasing precision and reducing demands on resources.
Design is the feed back loop between: Creation - Utilisatioin - and Demolition

model and inital quote thanks to barnabu
second image thanks to http://www.tufts.edu
Third image thanks to http://www.londontoolkit.com

Sears' catalog offered 447 models, selling over 70,000 houses between 1908 and 1940

"Sears Catalog Homes (sold as Sears Modern Homes) were ready-to-assemble houses sold through mail order by Sears Roebuck and Company, an American retailer. Over 70,000 of these were sold in North America between 1908 and 1940. Shipped via railroad boxcars, these kits included all the materials needed to build a house. Many were assembled by the new homeowner and friends, relatives, and neighbors, in a fashion similar to the traditional barn-raisings of farming families."

Image and text thanks to Wikipedia

Go aneX catalogue 1.0

The consumer is the focus, what can aneX (my presentation) provide?

• Information
• construction detail/methods
• cost information
• relative time periods
• how to
• pros/cons
• Commands
•  do this...
• Products
• UberOOws2030 summer edition
• McFroogle bunker
• shoestring Daminion
• aneXikea season 2010 carbon weave
• Demonstrations
• kid size model -for kids to play in
• desk top model -build yourself
• virtual model - for planning and demonstration purposes
• 2D interpretation, stickers, badges, magnets,..

this can all become too much if it is not restrained.

so step one -- aneX catalogue 1.0

What to sell

 I have been as Damien says "spread eagle" in trying to cover everything. This can be good or bad depending on what you are trying to do. I have an assignment to do, a presentation to make and an architectural, academic and social audience.

Not everything should be conveyed to all people, this I have touched on in the thought of individualised user catalogues. In this case I am not marketing to the builder or the council but will as most products do advertise to the end user. There are many things the end user will be effected by. I believe what should be presented because of the constraints of the project, is what all markets do and advertise the most popular and most desirable options.

For aneX this means breaking the concept into clear digestible packages for the consumer.

REMEMBER YOU MUST EXHIBIT

"opening of the exhibition will be Friday 11th December 2009 at the Light Square Roma Mitchell Arts Centre

The format of presentation will be:  
One single poster; Width 1682mm x Height 1189mm (NOT NEGOTIABLE)
The poster will need to be finalised and handed into the office no later than 3pm FRIDAY 27th NOVEMBER, in a Jpeg or PDF format, maximum 600dpi, on a CD that we can take to the printers. (you won’t be getting this CD back)

The cost for printing will be $100.00 each person, this is not negotiable and we know that you won’t be able to get your poster printed and hung for a cheaper price.


Everyone will be responsible for hanging their own posters on the Thur 10th December; we have organised to have the assistance of the gallery technician to help arrange posters and lighting." -The Exhibition Committee.

image thanks to - studenttheatre.net.au