Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Project 2 - Sass
I used form Z to create a digital model of a memory well then photoshop to compile the images. It's based off the themes found in some poems. This one deals with landscape, echo, nostalgia and reflection.
Project 2 - Weller
After reading "In a Station of a Metro" by Ezra Pound, I was inspired to create a space that reflected the shape of the wet bough. I wanted to use the reflecting character of a wet surface, and the vibrant colors of petals. After experimenting with 3d physical models for exercise 9, I created a tunnel composed by half circle layers that are joined by sitting benches on each side. The reflection created by the layers on the bench, makes it seem as if its a cylinder like I had created in my physical models.
Project 2 - Ensor
My Concept was an idea of enclosure by different edge conditions. Also the space is a progession of different types of enclosure.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Project 2 - McNally
My inspiration for this project was the second poem, "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island". In the poem the man records his observations, they are simple and sweet. At the end of the poem the narrator states, "I have wasted my life". At first I was confused by this ending. The whole poem describes nice and appealing imagery and then he ends with a negative quote. When I started to analyze the poem I realized he said this because all of the observations he was listing were ones that he was just noticing for the first time, his whole life he had never taken the time to seize the moment, stay in one place, and appreciate the simple things around him. To express this architecturally, I was immediately reminded of Frank Lloyd Wright. When touring a FLW building, you are rarely just experiencing a single space or experience at one moment. Instead you are constantly in several different places at one time, making it interesting but kind of hard to focus on "the simple things". So in formZ I created my own mock Frank Lloyd Wright model and began to explore views. I made the walls and floors semi-reflective surfaces because I wanted them to reflect the spaces around them, therefor supporting my concept. In the upper left hand corner I included the plan of the building and an axon diagram. I really wanted to include these images to show some diagramatic imagery but wish I did it in a more subtle way. The background image (with the spiraling stairs) is one of the more interesting views in the model that shows multiple spaces at one time. The ground level image is a perspective taken from the model showing the reflective walls.
Project 2 - Horton
This is my take on the last poem with the train station. I had some trouble when formz crashed but i tried to get the scale and spaces involved in the train station the poem had in it.
Project 1 - Weller
I tried to capture the reflections being created by the "mere labrynth of letters". Layering diffrent rendering techniques, I composed an image with multiple views of the model, and attempted to merge them together to create one view.
Exercise 8 - Weller
I tried to represent the voids I had created for exercise 7. Because they are essentially voids, I decided to use transparent acrylic as the material to model the cube.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Project 2 - Joseph Oros
This image conveys the experience of the poem describing the trip the countryside of Minnesota at dusk. I am using plan, section and a perspective to give the viewer as much of the experience as possible.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Exercise 6- Cramer
This project drew from the story Crystal City in Bldg Blog. In the story, a small village started slowly crystallizing, and then the crystals began to rapidly grow, consuming everything in their path. I used the terrain tool the model the rapid growth of this crystal.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Exercise 8-Rameez M.
These two models dealt with the weather bowl portion reading in the book. The models are suppose to represent storms, specifically a hurricane and a tornado in this case.
Exercise 8- Cramer
For this exercise, I wanted to model trees in an abstract way to show how they can create an outdoor room. Unfortunately my laser cutter knowledge made the model come out very small and some of the smaller pieces for the top of the trees got lost in the laser cutter. So I'm definitely going to improve on this model for Exercise 9.
Project 1 - Horton
After reading the text, "The Library of Babel," I decided to make a direct interpretation to how he describes the Library and thus life. He paints a pretty clear image of the unknowable depths involved in both and the sense of being lost in the disorder of the Library in all its infinitude. I therefore made a universe-like image with its sense of infinity but with an underlying sense of order in spite of feeling lost in it all. I used words from the text as a means to show these feeling he makes the reader feel but then centered and enlarged the main line I felt he wanted us to take away from it.
Excercise 8 - Horton
For this exercise, I meant to convey the overall qualities of water, when at once still, gets hit by an object or another drop of water and both goes out in rings and becomes a warped surface. The indents are there to show how water goes in and up in waves while the ripples represent the outward rings that begin at the point of impact and spread outward.
Project 1 - Gorbunova A.
My project focused on demonstrating a one-point perspective of various views of the galaxy I created. This view is framed by a zoomed-in perspective of one of the cells of the galaxy. This project demonstrates the ideas of infinity of the hexagonal galaxies depicted in the reading and provides a variety of morphed and straight-forward forms to illustrate an ordered system through different shapes and views.
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