On our second day we had to design and then build spaghetti sculptures which must hold four balls per person with the option of working in pairs. Again I worked with Daniella Avanzi. In the morning we designed the spaghetti sculptures in our sketch books while waiting for a free space on the glue guns.
I found it quite difficult to manipulate the glue gun whilst holding the spaghetti because the spaghetti would break easily in the lucky event that you were not burned by the glue gun! Although fragile I noticed that curiously the spaghetti would bend because of the heat.
We decided upon a triangular sculpture design.
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Fig 1 : Spaghetti Sculpture ( 2013) Daniella Avanzi
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Fig 2 : Spaghetti Sculpture (2013) Daniella Avanzi
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Fig 3: Spaghetti Sculpture (2013) Daniella Avanzi
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| Fig 4 : Spaghetti Sculpture (2013) Authors Own |
Our next task was to try to protect our piece by using one sheet of A1 paper and three sheets of A4 paper. We decided to scrunch up the paper and fill in the body of the sculpture as much as possible to add structural rigidity. At the end of the day, our tutor tested each of our protected sculptures with a basket ball to see if any of them were fit for purpose. Unfortunately ours was not basket ball-proof!
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Fig 5 : Filled Spaghetti Sculpture (2013) Authors Own
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Fig 6 : Filled Spaghetti Sculpture (2013) Authors Own
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Fig 7: Filled Spaghetti Sculpture (2013) Daniella Avanzi
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Fig 8: Filled Spaghetti Sculpture (2013) Daniella Avanzi
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I thought that the final spaghetti structure was very effective in the original purpose that it was made for, it was able to several balls quite easily as well as having a strong structure as a result of using more than one strand for each connector. This coupled with the fact that it was a rough triangular shape ensured that the structure was stable and strong. I also like how the structure is not directly pointing upwards, it almost curves away at the top that makes it quite interesting. If you were going to take this design further I would suggest either making it taller or add structures that come off from the sides that would allow more balls to be balanced on it.
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