british council @ latvia announced a competition for a tent placed @ positivus festival.
(..) invited to participate in the art and music festival Positivus 2010 (..) We need a tent (..) to create an environment where to engage with people and to awaken their creative spirit, open people’s minds, boost their creative entrepreneurship and encourage innovation and networking. That must be a place which lets people think about environment, sustainability and our responsibility towards our planet.
The requirements for the tent: made of environmentally and eco-friendly, recycled, sustainable materials (..) incorporated logo of British Council

made me think. more on other things than the actual tent, but... decided to enter the result here.

what about the form? how to use waste directly? recycling form?

what? logic?

MASS CONSUMPTION OF GOODS GENERATED BY MASS PRODUCTION MEANS

• mass production ... k equal parts
• mass consumption ... k equal leftovers
• k equal leftovers ... k/n regular n-gons of leftovers

REGULAR N-GONS SHAPED BY LEFTOVERS CAN BE TESSELATED

tesselation

A tiling of regular polygons (in two dimensions), polyhedra (three dimensions), or polytopes (n-dimensions) is called a tessellation. (..) The breaking up of self-inter-secting polygons into simple polygons is also called tessellation, or more properly, polygon tessellation.
/WolframMathWorld/
A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps.
/Math Forum/
A covering of an infinite geometric plane without gaps or overlaps by congruent plane figures of one type or a few types.
/Merriam-Webster/

REGULAR TESSELLATIONS
REGULAR POLYGONS
(MONOHEDRAL TILINGS, 1-UNIFORM TILING)
TRIANGLE, SQUARE, HEXAGON

SEMIREGULAR TESSELLATIONS
REGULAR POLYGONS
(DIHEDRAL, TRIHEDRAL .. n-HEDRAL TILING, 1-UNIFORM TILING)
Regular tessellations of the plane by two or more convex regular polygons such that the same polygons in the same order surround each polygon vertex are called semiregular tessellations, or sometimes Archimedean tessellations.

DEMIREGULAR TESSELLATIONS
REGULAR POLYGONS
(k-UNIFORM TILING)
For a tiling with tiles of regular polygons, we call it k-uniform if and only if it is k-isogonal. Demi-regular tiling is defined as k-uniform where k >1.
A demiregular tessellation, also called a polymorph tessellation, is a type of tessellation whose definition is somewhat problematical. Some authors define them as orderly compositions of the three regular and eight semiregular tessellations (which is not precise enough to draw any conclusions from), while others defined them as a tessellation having more than one transitivity class of vertices (which leads to an infinite number of possible tilings).

While following the rules it is possible to cover infinite plane with a tent. Detach. Attach. Scale. Would this qualify as recycling into form(?)

in search for British Council logo @ waste

leftovers at hand that could be tesselated in a tent

A1 paper roll core-tubes.
Author has been gathering & breaking them for ~5 years, currently only 45 pieces left.

Specs:

• L = 607, d_outer = 55, d_inner = 51
• weight: 152 g/piece
• strength: try...
• cost: saying thanks

the tent

Tentstorming and sour coffee

161 pieces needed.
Cover works as suspension string. Some extra wires could be used.

joints

The ground plugs are pine branches found in situ. So are the inner joints. Cost - the hassle of picking up.
Alternative- cut wood (presumably plywood) details (X, Y). Could search also for some plastic tubes.

cover

Cardboard boxes from local supermarket. Cost - saying thanks.
Veneer leftovers from a joinery. Cost - a bootle of wine.
Waterproof canvas tarpaulin. Cotton 40%, linen 60%; 470g/m²; water resistance ~100mm. Cost: ~2 LVL/m²

additions

The structure allows users to extend (tesselate) it, add hanging division walls and entrance covers, uncover top to create natural headlights, display the workshop artworks. Whatever. Tesellation is process, such should be the tent.

mockup