LOUP #3 - Marriage
For my wedding this past august, I worked to design a few elements. Since we were conducting the ceremony in a single (nasty, ball-)room we needed a flexible way to create a more intimate space for the ceremony, and a more open space for the reception. I created a mock-up of the room for seating purposes using Revit to be able to parametrically manipulate and “schedule” (count) the number of chairs for the reception (boring…). I then exported the model to Rhino to play with the schemes for the hanging curtains and stage lighting. The final setup was constructed by The Design Company out of Charlottesville, Virginia and pretty close to what I had modeled.
The Curtains were hung from the same track that the ballroom dividers use (those nasty doors used for conferences, etc.) and a pipe was inserted in the bottom of the curtain so that it would splay out at the bottom. To further sculpt the shape, fishing wire was sewn through the curtain about 2/3 the way up and buttons (button!) were used to constrain the shape of the curtains (to restrict the width of the wire). Since the room needed to be converted quickly for the reception following the ceremony, the staff needed to only remove the piping at the bottom of the curtain to tie them back during the turnover.
The last piece that might be of interest was a “computational design” written in Processing that served as a backdrop for the ceremony. The 90″ x 240″ design was based off “Sands of Time” by Jared Tarbell which was adapted for the ceremony. One of the technical challenges here was to get processing to write out such an enormous file (each was about 400 megs) while still being able to view the progression of the algorithm in realtime. Here are a few variations of the designs (we used #3), which was split down the center for printing.
Variation #1
Variation #2
Variation #3
Variation #4
Variation #5
Variation #6
Variation #7
Speaking of printing, special thanks to Jonathan Healey and Colleen Gove for their help with the last minute printing - it took about 2 hours for to print each banner. I hope I can be as helpful for their wedding (congratulations guys!)