This project allowed students to explore the idea of the molecular structure of form. They experimented with the system used in the Watercube, an installation at the Beijing Aquatic Centre designed by Chris Bosse. The Watercube is based on the geometry of soap bubbles, with the swimming pools wrapped in a translucent skin that is made up of facetted spheres. The fantastic pattern of the soap bubbles results in an spectacular interior.Spatial Origami also used this idea of a pair of molecules that join together to make the overall form, but instead of soap bubbles the molecules were Thylacines.
With numerous Spatial Origami Tigers joined together the project developed into an installation for the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania. The installation took on its own life and became a large chandelier, made up of 210 individual Thylacines, grouped together in seven sets. The chandeliers recast the old railway shed of Launceston’s Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery with a layer of spectacular decoration, rolling out the red carpet for the 10 Days on the Island art festival.
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