Expo-hacking artifacts.
A collection of modules consisting of plywood circles with artificial grass on top that users can carry around the area to sit on.
The artifacts act as a conversation starter about urban hacking artifacts and the concept of given public spaces alternative uses. The artifacts are going to be distributed among the audience of a design festival event during a specific cluster timeslot and will be activated in the end through a communal meal in collaboration with the other members of the cluster.
Each module works by itself as a floor siting surface. The initial concept was to provide a simple sitting alternative for a design festival event in an old industrial infrastructure.
It then grew into modules that can be arranged to create paths or bigger surfaces. The concept allows the exploration of different ways to use the existing infrastructure.
The artificial grass material consists of two layers of polypropylene woven together, meaning it can be laser cut. For this, the cutting file was nested in a 60 cm by 100 cm surface to be fitted in the machine.
The plywood selected to perform as a solid base for the modules was low quality 9 mm plywood which proved to be enough as it doesn't add any aesthetic value to the object and its function is only to lay on the floor.
The modules where cut using a large format CNC milling machine with an 8 mm down cut mill bit.
"Green Patches" by David Granizo
CCL v1.0 — All phases led by humans. AI was not used in any stage of the process.
AI – v1.0
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