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Final Portfolio

June 5, 2015by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

Plants on the Move Workshop and Exhibition Centre Guided tours, specified route patterns and focussed material, constitute the large majority of today’s cultural establishments. Led by an interest in the […]

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Plants on the Move

March 20, 2015by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

Based on an earlier demographic appraisal and suggested archetype for each of the economic botany collections, I have chosen the Plants on the Move exhibition as be the first to be designed. […]

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Economic Botany

March 13, 2015by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

On a second visit to Kew Gardens I discovered the People + Plants exhibition in Museum number 1. It is currently the largest display of the worldwide uses for plants and for […]

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Tensegrity Variations

March 6, 2015by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

With the basic principles of tensegrity understood, I took to computational design and parametric modelling in order to test the possibilities of altering the generic sticks and string modules as showcased by […]

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Understanding Tensegrity

February 20, 2015by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

Analysis into the natural precedent of Slime Mould revealed a structural system of tensegrity within the cytoskeleton of cellular organisms. As a result, I set about gaining an understanding of […]

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Bio Tensegrity

February 6, 2015by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

Finding nature’s representative of Tabula Rasic learning was one thing. However, in order to extract a structural system from Slime Mould, I had to delve into the microscopic. The questions […]

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Slime Mould

January 30, 2015by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

Of the formerly explored growth patterns in nature, none truly contained an inherent investigative approach to their growth. Slime mould however, does. It is a single celled organism, forming a super […]

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Growth patterns in nature

January 16, 2015by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

As a way of discovering natures epitomic of Tabula Rasic learning, this page is devoted to numerous autonomous growth patterns in nature. Mycelium A network of branched, tubular filaments (hyphae) […]

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Tabula Rasa

January 9, 2015by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

Tabula Rasa Waiting to be found, are unthinkable treasures. Explore, look around. While Kew Gardens is renowned for its beautiful botanical gardens and natural species, some may not know about […]

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Brief’s A & B

December 19, 2014by paul.thorpe Leave a comment

Brief’s A & B represent the early investigations into nature and structure, with early developments into single surface structures. These understandings will be carried through as a story is developed through discoveries […]

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