WIREFRAME ELASTIC BAND

HOUSE ANALYSIS

The house looks great with the bands acting as additional strength to the structure. the afferent colours on the second layer give the house more interest and essentially a character about it.

PROBLEM HIGHLIGHTED

I had already done a wooden dowel wireframe model but unfortunately it snapped in one of the dowels. As a result i wanted to re complete the same model again using more glue and applying an additional two dowels to each side for strength. As a way of obtaining a model with multi materials i decided to apply elastic bands for both aesthetics and strength function. the initial notion was that the band would maintain and essentially hold the structure together with tightness (obviously this did not work successfully).
THE BANDS
YELLOW - thin, 6cm diameter flat
PINK/PURPLE - slightly thicker in both width and height diameter, stronger, elasticity 


Whats shocking to see is how the elastic bands have changed the form of the wooden dowel frame. I left the structure standing for the weekend and found out recently after that the joints on the wireframe model had broken due to the elastic pressure of the bands. 
BRITTLE JOINTS
I want to explain in depth why the joints ultamately failed the house model. 
Firstly its down to the process method of actually joining each individual wood dowel together. Because i used glue (hot glue gun) there wasn't enough strength in the joint. Although it looks like i have covered the joint completely in glue in-fact most of it has just set on the wood (doesn't have any effect on the strength of the joint). 

The bands are trying their hardest to return to their original shape which is understandably less than that on the house model. This results in a elastic energy which pulls/bends the frame of the wooden structure inwards to its core. Whats happened here is two of the joints have been unable to cope with this force and turned the house inwards to a more deconstructionist model. it looks more intriguing but unfortunately isn't what was required in terms of meeting the dimension criteria.