Road Building

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MIT Core 3 | Fall 2018 | Professor Rami el Samahy

A preemptive group research project exploring road building as a method of construction and source of materials. Our initial inquiries investigated types of earth movers and retaining wall traditions associated with the creation of roads and the types of effects and spaces these construction methods created.

We took the information we gathered on earth movers and developed a set of small prosthetics which, when attached to the ends of our fingers, mimicked the motions and cuts of their mechanical counterparts. In conjunction with these tools, we created a scale set of objects — gabions, sheet pilings, and precast wall units. With these parameters set, we sought to investigate the types of spaces and effects we could make with these construction methods when they are applied to our eventual program of a winery.