Notes
1.
Le Corbusier,
Towards a New Architecture,
The Architectural Press (London), 1923,
p
10.
2.
Donna Haraway, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’,
Simians, Cyborgs and Women,
Routledge (London),
1990,
p
293.
3.
Mark Yim, ‘Dynamic Rolling for
a
Modular Loop Robot’,
International Journal of Robotics
Research,
8
(6), 2009, pp 758–73.
Text © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Images: pp 60–1 © Ibañez Kim, photo Lendl Tellington;
p 62 © Ibañez Kim, photo Kate Raines; p 64 © Ibañez Kim; p 65 © Ibañez Kim, photo Joseph
Giampietro
Indeterminate Environments
The RolyPolygon Confessional series (2016) was an enquiry into
lightweight monocoque shells for deployable shelters. Working
with the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia,
carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) was wound about
a
temporary frame in
a
pattern that produced rigid self-support after
being baked in
a
large-format kiln at the school. The resultant
RolyPolygon Confessional is
a
human-sized pod that is lighter than
a
concrete masonry unit, made within
a
day, and can be tumbled
into various positions for different human occupancies. Each shell
is based on
a
sphenoid hendecahedron,
a
family of polygon that
is able to aggregate
efficiently
into larger assembly so that
a
pod
