What is that pink rabbit doing at the market?
Starting in November, in 10 weeks students from the Architecture Minor Archineering designed a pavilion for the Delft Fringe Festival. A pavilion where ticket sales, meeting and performances take place. The bright pink Delft Fringe Rabbit is the winning design of students Bartek Kotlicki and Ben Provan-Bessel. The pavilion design is so strong that the Delft Fringe Festival is going to use it as a new logo.
Minor students deliver 15 versatile designs to choose from
Thirty students from Architecture, Industrial Design, and Mathematics & Technical Computing, among others, entered the Archineering Minor (BK) in teams of two to work on the assignment. The assignment was structured in five phases: play, desires, conditions, reality check and finish. "On the one hand, they were challenged to choose untrodden paths; on the other hand, there were concrete conditions that the design had to meet. For example, a maximum of eight cubic meters of cross laminated timber (CLT) was available," says Koen Mulder, lecturer at TU Delft. There were 15 different designs.
Archineering
Archineering is a third-year free choice minor that focuses on making and materialising as an essential part of design. Archineering is composed of two parts. The first part consists of a series of short assignments that focus on approaching design from different domains and physical experimentation. For example, there are assignments where students work with digital fabrication and 3D printing. In the second part, students work in different phases on one longer ongoing project. Archineering is an Architecture minor - but because it is a free choice, it also attracts many students from other faculties who want to become familiar with design & making.
For more information about the minor, please contact Roel van der Pas.
The winning design: 'Animal Theatre
From the 15 designs, an expert jury chose the origami-based design by Bartek Kotlicki and Ben Provan-Bessell, called 'Animal Theatre', as the winner. Bartek and Ben were fascinated by origami models. It is true that folded paper is different from thick pinewood glued crosswise, but it undoubtedly led them to think quickly from facets. In addition to technical ingenuity, they also had a fine sense of design. The two students created an ingenious zoo of wooden origami objects consisting of 'crane benches', 'butterfly parasols', a 'stage duck' and the seven-meter-tall ticket booth rabbit. A highly functional pavilion that will rise high above the audience with its long ears. At the same time, it forms a beautiful logo for the festival that, last year, had an illusionist as its winner.
Bridge between technology and culture
From Saturday 29 May to Sunday 6 June, this seven-meter high wooden origami rabbit will stand on the Markt in Delft. It is as high as the Hugo de Groot statue. It will be the new festival pavilion of Delft Fringe Festival, a performing arts festival playing its 10th edition this year. Roel Beeftink-Funcken, director of Delft Fringe Festival: "We are extremely happy with this special collaboration. This will give the relationship between culture and technology a place in our festival and allow us to strengthen the connection between the historic city center and the TU Campus, both iconic aspects of Delft, in the coming years."
More information in online exhibition 'The Origami Rabbit'
In the online exhibition 'The Origami Rabbit' you can read and see everything about the collaboration between TU Delft and Delft Fringe Festival and the trajectory of the rabbit from design to construction. You can also find the other designs of the other teams here. The online exhibition can be visited from 29 May at https://delftfringefestival.nl/expo. The Origami Rabbit will be placed on the Marketplace 29 May.
Read more about the origami Fringe Rabbit (pdf)
Delft Fringe Festival
The Delft Fringe Festival is a theater festival where talented young, often recently graduated makers get lots of playing minutes right away. Dance, music, theater, cabaret and other theater. In total there are 400 performances spread over 11 days. There are performances for children, there are 'language no problem' performances and there is a special Studium Generale program. The festival is online this year. See www.delftfringefestival.nl.