Orthogonal 2024
Updates to the project2024
Simon Penny
Overview
Orthogonal is a project to develop a prototype for sustainable decarbonised community sea-transport for island and coastal communities. The design is based in the strucutures and dynamics of indigenous designs of the traditional asymmetical sailcaft of the western Pacific, and utilises modern materials of kinds that are easily worked in low-tech contexts.
The following five videos were developed over July/Aug 2024 for the GEtty PST exhibition Embodied Seaways at UCSD Sept-December 2024.
Below these are photgraphs of the 8’ (2.5m) scale model of Orthogonal assembled for the exhibition.
See also Orthogonal 2017-2020
"Orthogonal: is it art and what kind of art is it?"
Research-Driven practice and Design for the real World.
"Indigenous Pacific Seacraft: 3500 years of innovation"
"Orthogonal : Design elements and building process"
"Orthogonal move-out: Moving big things with ropes, muscles and care"
"Orthogonal: A hybrid Atlantic Proa with a novel shunting rig."
(3D renderings and animations)
Scale model of Orthogonal exhibited at Embodied Seaways exhibition, UCSD 2024.
