The Montreal Proposal

As an FYI for those who don't know, we're going to Montreal to meet up with another architecture school (RPI from Troy, NY). We will combine our work with RPI's pneumatic structures to create some theatrical installation. Our studio has been broken into groups to work on developing a response to RPI's structures.

I am working with Chelsea, Dana and Kyle to develop a response to the work of Erica, China, Barbara and Matt at RPI. They are proposing to build 3 darted/pleated wall sections. Each wall has two air panels. The wall would curve and "stand up" as one of the air panels is inflated. Deflating that panel and inflating the other one would cause the wall to curve the opposite way.

I propose using the electric typewriter as an output device that would record the motions of the whole wall system. The keyboard of the typewriter would be interfaced with switches placed throughout and around the walls, so that as the walls move, the switches are tripped and send keystrokes to the typewriter. The typewriter would type out the actions of the whole system (in gibberish). The typewriter could also take sensor input from Chelsea's Elmo doll to record its actions as well.