Friday, April 18, 2008

Friday, 18th april 2008

This was the final day of Tencellity Tower assembly. At 10AM there were just another 14 cells to go to reach the top. And at 10PM everything was finished. Team work and common understanding lead to the planned result.

Anas and Gabriel adding node poins for later attachment of the "skin"

Assembly at the cell number 12

Look downwards

Pure detail

Cell detail in the middle of the tower

Less than half way to go at 3PM
Three hours later, at 6PM we reached the cell number 15, height - 7,8 meters

Last five cells on the roof of our university building

Waiting for the last cells to be assembled

Meanwhile... Blazenka showing the scale of Anas, for representing the total height of the Tencellity Tower - 10 meters

Some minutes before finishing the tower - 9PM, fridays night (108 hours since we started on monday morning)

Group photo next to the finished tower

Look downwards to the finished tower

Look downwards to the finished tower

Look upwards to the finished tower from the middle

Tower going through the middle part of the stair constructions

Close-up detail with the Moon in the night sky

Finished tower in all its beauty at the UIC Barcelona campus


Final words
On behalf of the Biodigital Masters team we would like to thank Dennis Dollens for his infinite will and participation, helpful hands, advices, thoughts and tremendous energy in leading the project "Tencellity Tower". We all are glad and happy You could come to teach us biomimetics and share your great personal experience here in Barcelona, in the spring semester 2008!
Welcome back to see us during this year and we will be glad to see you around LA as well...


Dennis taking group photo of us

 
Digitally signed in Barcelona by:
Arne, Antonio, Diego, Pau, Juan, Andrea, Alessio, Joana, Vivi, Theo, Isak, Anke, Anna, Blazenka, Marija, Gabriel, Daniel, Julian, Elif, Lamila, Aref, Anas


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