The subject was to design and build a plaster shell that could be at the same time aesthetic and resistant.
The workshop started by a form finding process at small scales to understand how shell structures work.
The prototypes were made using a special process: an elastic foil was filled with plaster. As the foil work only in tension this was a way to unsure that when the shell was flipped, the shell would experience compression forces only. The final prototype was built on a wood structure. Once the plaster was dry, the wood structure was cut and the resistance of the shell tested. The result was pretty impressive, the 1cm thick shell was able to support more than 50 kg.
