Acrylic Mountains
Acrylic Mountains
When asked by a photography friend to design a wedding altar that would double as a backdrop for photography sessions, allusion to mountain-scapes and the large, singular pine trees throughout their land provided inspiration. A series of conical forms of various heights and directions were conceived of as a family that could exist together, in multiple configurations, or individually as follies across the land.
Acrylic Mountains
Acrylic Mountains
The cones are constructed by and alluded to through digital fabrication 101: a waffle structure of 2D contours created through CNC routing. Rather than focusing on the novelty of the fabrication process, the design seeks to explore ways an increasingly-ubiquitous construction process could yield intriguing aesthetic effects, namely through the use of acrylic sheets that are almost completely transparent yet create diffusion through layering and incident.
Preliminary Design Schemes:
The CNC process also makes customized etching and carving quite simple, and each sheet receives a custom “tattoo” of wood’grain hatch pattern, which plays on layering, incident, and translucency through a playful and ironic misuse of disciplinary convention: the wood-grain hatch also alludes to more “natural” objects like mountains and trees despite the seemingly artificiality of plastic platonics. More to come.