I’ve decided to sourcemap the House for New Orleans exhibited at the Home Delivery exhibition at MoMA this summer (). I had worked on the house as a part of a class on digital fabrication taught by Prof. Larry Sass. This house is an example of a digitally fabricated, mass-customizable, friction fit, plywood construction system for post-disaster reconstruction. I wanted to compare this house to a vernacular dwelling of the Bharia tribals of Madhya Pradesh in central India based on earlier research work I had done on their architecture. Below is the 3D model of a typical Bharia house that was used for the source map calculations:
This house is made of locally available unprocessed timber, adobe and thatch. The reason for the sourcemap comparison between these two houses is that I want to find a way to integrate material sensing with digital fabrication to allow digital fabrication techniques to better cope with irregular and unprocessed materials.
Here are the sourcemap results:
Tags: Bharia, futurecraft, MoMA Home Delivery, sourcemap
