Transportation is one of those logistic components that often gets thought of at the last minute. Fortunately the teams from Ryerson University's Department of Architectural Science were able to get the experience from past executions of the Night Market to get the works out of the shop and safely transported to the site (take note of the blankets!). When the teams brought all the carts to site the last minute checks on lighting and setup were done in preparation for the big event.

On Stools and Heat Shrink Membrane

The 2016 Night Market Cart design by [R]ed[U]x Lab consists of the re-appropriation of some of the old studio furniture that would have been otherwise thrown out during the renovation of the Architectural Science studios. The team decided to use the old drafting stools as an endoskeleton that gave rise to the geometry of the cart. The team had to use heat shrink film to serve as a unifying membrane over top the structure that also proved to benefit the design's illumination capacity.

Heat Shrink Membrane and Framework

Here are the [R]ed[U]x Lab Night Market 2016 team members bracing the structure for cart in order to allow for the taping and wrapping of the heat shrink membrane.

Night Market Cart 2016 Fabrication Commences

The [R]ed[U]x Lab team behind the 2016 Night Market Cart has been extremely productive in transitioning from creating scale prototypes on the laser cutter to the execution of full scale components on the CNC router. This also allowed the team to investigate a full scale mock-up of the heat shrink membrane with the re-purposed stools from the studio renovation in the Department of Architectural Science.