Fine Art Foundation Degree

 Chicken Wire Chicken wire is a a sheet of thin, flexible galvanised steel wire weaved together to form hexagonal gaps. It is used for a variety of thing such as pens to hold, or keep out, small animals and construction.  Charles Barward, a British ironmonger, built the first wire-netting machine in 1844 and based his design on cloth weaving machines.  During WW1, the wire that was being used for chicken wire was repurposed for large wire ground mats for radar systems to even out the random reflections caused from uneven ground. In WW2 it was put on helmets of the German soldiers to help camouflage them with plants and branches.  Chicken wire, by itself is relatively weak, it can easily be bent, cut or deformed, however when used together with other materials, such as glass or concrete, it can make the material a lot stronger. Chicken wire glass was invented as a safety measure during the industrial revolution. These panes of glass were often used overhead in factories as the mesh prev

 Honeycomb Project Idea After realising I wanted to focus on structure for my project, I thought about the structure that is most interesting to me, this being honeycomb. This is because although many designers and architects have been inspired by natural structures or products, nothing has been used as much as the honeycomb structure has. I believe the simplicity of honeycomb allows it to be useful in so many products ranging from aircrafts to cardboard and packing, which is remarkable for something that was originally designed and made by bees to live in and store their honey and larvae.  Honeycomb consists of hexagonal wax cells built by honey bees in the hives to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen. Bees are frugal with their wax, and will use the most optimal method of distribution to reduce the total material used, whilst providing the most strength.  Hexagons are the highest-sided polygons that fit together, comparing tessellated triangles and hexagons with the s