Tomato cage concept

Team space frame has been playing around in the computer and have come up with a 'tomato cage' concept. Calculating a total mass of bottles meant we would have to collect upwards of 25,000 bottles per lima bean, and after visiting the recycle plants this isn't really feasable. The space frame concept reduces the number of bottles used to make a similar sized module to around 5,000 each. We estimate that in the upstairs studio after a good hall this weekend we have about 1,000 bottles.

Here is the concept we have been developing. It consists of a structural system(yellow) supporting programatic elements (green) nested withing the voids of the structure.

These nested items give a dynamic element to the boring and static element of the space frame. The frame begins to disappear behind the dynamic tubes of light collection and filtration. This rendering only starts to convey this but there would be many more tubes interwoven into the structure.

Each node in the space frame requires twelve connections. This is easily done using zip ties and rocky's method of cap connections. The skin tubes can simply be screwed into a node from the side.