ABSTRACT
"Busta Lines" is one of a series of projects developed in a course taught by Heather Roberge at the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. Roberge's course worked with a company called Superform. Typically, their processes are used to manufacture complex airplane components such as the lip of a jet engine, or the elbow between the wing and the fuselage. The process employed for superplastic-forming tile began through the computational development of a form worthy of production. The intention of these shapes were to evoke the qualities of a range of other materials, some included in Roberge's syllabus were; wrinkled satin, carved marble, stretched latex, fluid filled organic membranes, armor, and cast ceramic. Roberge introduced a vocabulary of terms to help describe the various components of each tile's geometry, in addition to its possible reconfigurations across a field, including translation, rotation, mirroring, and gliding.
