In our process, we mobilized the idea of an apparatus as an extension to our understanding of intuition as a method. The framework of an apparatus allows many possible exchanges within a system. It can open up possibilities to afford computational and iterative logic by which we shape materials. the space of the apparatus allows and affords errors and glitches within its systemic framework to produce partial and structural possibilities. It enables us varied opportunities in the duration of a specific sense of time generated by intuitive methods and not industrial logic.


In our process, we mobilized the idea of an apparatus as an extension to our understanding of intuition as a method. The framework of an apparatus allows many possible exchanges within a system. It can open up possibilities to afford computational and iterative logic by which we shape materials. the space of the apparatus allows within its systemic framework to produce partial and structural possibilities. It enables us varied opportunities in the duration of a specific sense of time generated by intuitive methods and non industrial logic of making.
Making of The Apparatus



Apparatus Ver 2.0

The cube

Our index started with the cube, a cube has a framework—a framework with an ambition to explore gravitational force to shape form materials. Material becomes a dynamic and formative aspect of the apparatus that works with gravity. It allows point co-ordinates and segments to suspend materials into gravity. Its space frame is where surface materials and line-ar elements can be hung to explore gravitational effects on material form.


Apparatus Ver 2.0
Deliberation of design

In this experiment, we changed the apparatus itself. Instead of a cube, we then started to look at the possibilities where the cube could also animate itself. The gravitational pull becomes the real-time; where we can change angles, we can change the location and shape the surface within it multiple times without unmounting the material. We made this possible with movements or degrees of freedom within the system of the particular cube that we made and into an apparatus for it to allow possibilities of material passing through it.


Contriving while constructing
Once we worked out the preliminary designs, the construction of the apparatus began. Here design and making were a parallel process where the drawings and building kept influencing each other until the ideal detail arrived. Changes and developments were made based on weight requirements and the flexibility of the flow of the apparatus. The arrangement of angle locks can be viewed as an iterative design process to find a suitable position to facilitate the movement of materials associated with the operations intended.






Unit assembly

We started with the assembly after working out the details and fabricating each unit to desired proportions and angles. Each unit had to fit into the other precisely so that maintaining set parameters for creating the desired object could be measured and recreated. Once assembled, the apparatus was then polished with wood varnish. Marked and numbered to set parameters at every angle and distance in space in the cube. Also, to end and prevent damage or hindrance to the cube while casting, we wrapped the cube in cling wrap to easily remove the overflow of casting materials.








Final Apparatus
Innovative concepts in design are highly valued not for their own sake but for their contributions to reducing costs and improving aesthetics, comfort or convenience as embodied in a well-designed facility. However, the constructor and the design professionals must appreciate and understand the technological complexities often associated with innovative designs. Since these concepts are preliminary or tentative, the team could improve the apparatus and its functioning hereafter. Because of the ambiguity of the objectives and the uncertainty of external events, experimentation studies call for uninhibited innovation in creating new ideas and informed judgment in selecting the appropriate ones for further consideration.