CARD SIX
Rice paper
Ingredients of the food rice paper include white rice flour, tapioca flour, salt, and water. The tapioca powder makes the rice paper glutinous and smooth.
We tried two different brands of rice paper which provided us with a range of thickness, stickiness and shape. As the original state of the rice paper is usually sold dried in thin, crisp, translucent sheets, it breaks off very easily and weakly. However with hot water, the paper loosens and can be sculpted into any form and shape we want if treated carefully. With this flexibility, we experimented different ways how the material and the texture of the rice paper can be used effectively to uplift aesthetic sense and support structural elements.
The translucency of the rice paper allows the skeleton of a structure to be visible rather than hiding the structure which can celebrate both the structure and the envelope of a building. In real life, rice paper can be translated as a murky thick glass material which can be very well found in swimming pool recreations.
CARD SEVEN
Seaweed
A seaweed may belong to one of several groups of multicellular algae: the red algae, green algae, and brown algae. As these three groups are not thought to have a common multicellular ancestor, the seaweeds are a polyphyletic group. In addition, some tuft-forming bluegreen algae (Cyanobacteria) are sometimes considered as seaweeds — "seaweed" is a colloquial term and lacks a formal definition.
Like the rice paper, this dried seaweed clips and breaks when folded even with the lightest pressure. Experimenting with its fragility and delicacy, I scrunched and crumpled a paper of seaweed and created a mesh.
A seaweed may belong to one of several groups of multicellular algae: the red algae, green algae, and brown algae. As these three groups are not thought to have a common multicellular ancestor, the seaweeds are a polyphyletic group. In addition, some tuft-forming bluegreen algae (Cyanobacteria) are sometimes considered as seaweeds — "seaweed" is a colloquial term and lacks a formal definition.
Like the rice paper, this dried seaweed clips and breaks when folded even with the lightest pressure. Experimenting with its fragility and delicacy, I scrunched and crumpled a paper of seaweed and created a mesh.
we carried on experimenting with the breaking part of the seaweed and gathered broken pieces and looked at the breaking moment of the seaweed and the ridged lines.
CARD SIX and SEVEN combined
Seaweed and Rice paper
After experimenting with the following materials above, we decided to combine them together to create a surface or an internal enclosure keeping with the second life exploration design process. We discovered when layers of seaweed is embedded in between layers of rice paper on a balloon, the internal texture is smoother, shiner and silkier. It rather looks like a thin plastic sheet than rice paper.
After experimenting with the following materials above, we decided to combine them together to create a surface or an internal enclosure keeping with the second life exploration design process. We discovered when layers of seaweed is embedded in between layers of rice paper on a balloon, the internal texture is smoother, shiner and silkier. It rather looks like a thin plastic sheet than rice paper.
we also experimented with the movement of the two materials and light. By combining them, it creates a sense of solidity and pattern; it creates a character.
as seaweed paper is a compressed component of small elements of seaweed, after soaked, the layers of seaweed loosen up. From the above image, we peeled off the seaweed which leaves the bottom layers of the seaweed on the rice paper creating a marble like texture. The bottom layer of seaweed has to be reasonably dried before peeled off and because the rice paper is also wet, it is quite difficult to peel the seaweed off perfectly.
CARD EIGHT
Crepe paper
-Crêpe paper is a lighter tissue paper that has been coated with sizing and then creped to create gathers.
-Crêpe paper and tissue are among the lightest papers and are normally below 35 g/m2.
Below are photographs of existing lamps which involve tissue paper and light.
The existing lighting lamps and covers above show the close relationship between light and tissue paper. The thinness and lightness of tissue paper reduces light intensity and creates a cozy atmosphere. The volume created the crease, crumple and fold of tissue paper is very intriguing and interesting.
After dipping the paper in the water, we discovered that the paper absorbs water very quickly and the contrast between the dry and wet is very vivid.
Crepe paper
-Crêpe paper is a lighter tissue paper that has been coated with sizing and then creped to create gathers.
-Crêpe paper and tissue are among the lightest papers and are normally below 35 g/m2.
Below are photographs of existing lamps which involve tissue paper and light.
Using Chinese lantern and muffin cups, a floral lighting cover is created.
Crepe paper characteristics:
Other than lighting research like above, we also wanted to experiment its relationship with water and how it dissolves water.
We have ripped, folded, crumpled and scrunched tissue paper to explore the mesh-like volume that is evident in the lighting photos above.
The series of photographs above exemplifies the speed of the tissue paper absorbing water and the transformation of it from dry and wet.
After it gets soaked, we squeezed the wet paper and reduced the water capacity that is sucked up by the paper. The paper hardens up and becomes much harder.
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