Wil Natzel recently sent us photos of his thesis project Cardboard Beam with Giant Squid – a corrugated 30 foot cardboard beam hung from two opposing walls. Assembled using hot-glue and precision laser cut cardboard, the cardboard giant squids buttress the beam against the wall at either end. Each end of the giant squid contains 9 cardboard tentacles cantilevered in mid air.
Attempting an expansion in architectural Eclecticism, I endeavored to explore and revel in the expression of patterned surfaces and dare I say, Romanticism shunned by purely performative architecture. In doing so, I have allowed and made space for narrative to exist, to construct a Spatial Graffiti. In attempting to reach such ends, I chose the lowliest of materials, cardboard, to extract an ephemeral existence. With the application of cut cardboard layers, I have created a place where pattern and decoration can thrive in Architecture and not be immediately cast aside as purely historicism, to counteract the banal.
Give me cardboard and hot glue and I’ll struggle to make a decent gingerbread man. Pretty amazing work. Check out his site and architecture portfolio at www.icecycle.com.
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very cool.
6:41 pm
Are you sure it isn’t Siamese Octopuses? Or a giant neuron? It is cool to the max, though!
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