I studied the American architect and designer Richard Buckminster Fuller, who became famous for his geodesic dome. The best-known is the biosphere, the exhibition pavilion of Expo 67 in Montreal.
He developed innovative concepts and structures that stand out for their energy and material efficiencies such as a car model, bathroom, building concepts and the idea of tensegrity.
The art piece and structure study is filigrain and transparent on the one hand, but also quite massive and present within the space. It uses different principles I found out within studying Fuller's visions.
This object is a result of the first-semester basic class at MSD .
The basic idea behind this piece was to design an object by analyzing a famous designer, artist or architect and to adapt his way of using form, color, structure etc.
I did not try to construct concrete ideas developed by Fuller, but took a basic body, the tetrahedron, and searched for rules, types, and potentials of the body. Similar to Fuller, I tried to concentrate on the essentials and make it big.
In the object, the minimal material was used to ensure the function and stability. Folded with simple fanfold paper, it takes on the function of the windmill and creates a space. The four sides describe four edges of the tetrahedron. By simply folding the object can be brought to the minimum packaging size of a paper strip.