Metamorph | Barcelona, Spain | Unit 21 | 2024
jess.georgelin.20@ucl.ac.uk

The Centre for Lepidoptera research sits on the Turo de la Rovira hill overlooking Barcelona. A feedback system was developed as a way of rethinking rapid prototyping tools, where the final outcome was a product of the tool’s process, rather than a fixed outcome. The maker-object system involves objects that are both observers and observed, such as the interpreting apparatus that allows the makers movements to be translated into useable data, for the 3d printer to interpret. This medium acts like a transect, the method of collecting voltine data for lepidoptera, where species are counted repeatedly within a specified area. The printed transects become the basis of a building system that has ecology at its heart.

Process Video

3D printed experiments

CNC transect stones

Plans and Drawings

Final Film