KINAN KHATIB kinan.khatib@mail.mcgill.ca

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Design Considerations..

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Materials & Mixes

3- Creation of a Time Measuring Machine, For this part of the project I decided to work on a finishing material that would record the passage of time. My first ideas consisted in layering several textures of earth mixes to create a whole that would erode gradually with the passage of time and uncover color after another of the layers. The erosion being caused by the flow of people on this surface.

For this to be possible I had to start testing mixes of clay, sand and various compounds to be able to determine the layering I needed to do. To simplify the task I decided on working with 3 layers only, with a forth layer as base. To identify these layers I tested about 9 mixes, 5 of them are included in the scan below.

These are the tiles I produced: each of them is an improvement or modification of the one prior. The contents in sand, clay, plasters, natural colors and dry plants are subject to testing in order to identify needed strengths, colors and textures.

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Close-ups of the previous tiles: Some of them broke with handling and some of them proved more solid. The colors are mainly concentrated tea coatings in order to test it as a possible coloring method (instead of mixing the concentrate inside the tile mix)

The next tile is a mixed product which proved to be very hard to control during curing because the mixes combined but not mixed of this experiment can never be identical in water content to allow controlled and homogenous curing

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