Exercise 8 - Ensor

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.

Project 1 - Myers

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 1a - Myers

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.

Exercise 8_Khakbaz

Project 1_Khakbaz

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.

Project 1 - Ensor

Project 1 - Sass

Project 1 - Joseph Oros

This image serves to identify, what in my opinion was the main concept of the library. It is a very ordered space, however as ordered as it is, it is equally as formless and chaotic. I thought about the library on different scales. Could this view be of the library at a microscopic scale? Or perhaps this image is of the library on such a massive scale that neither I or you could comprehend. Whatever the answer, it seems irrelevant in terms of infinity.

Project 1 Svensson

In the reading there was a passage that spoke of the vindication. It spoke of how the libraries and towers reached a point where everything was known and as a result people began to attempt to change and control what was occuring and existing in the library. This reminded me of another text in which it spoke of building towers that grew to the point where the top no longer understood the bottom and vice versa. From this I took the concept of conflict to be the basis for my model. Through iterations and studying what conflict is I came to the metaphor of a forest, it is this that my final model grew from. While there is order and organization to a forest, there is conflict to be found. What tree lives or dies, what tree grows where, are ideas that are attempted to be represented.

Project 1- Cramer

My final board demonstrates the progression of my 3 main ideas of the reading throughout the process of the project. For complexity, my idea began as a series of complex connections between the scattered hexagons. As I developed my project more, I thought about complexity not as connections about in terms of each hexagonal gallery in itself. I saw the galleries as being cave like, and as one enters they get lost in its complex geometries and must find their way through. For connections, my previous idea tied in with complexity in that the galleries were a series of complex connections, with the hexagons all extruded to different lengths and heights. As I developed this further, I saw the connections more as these snake like hexagonal pipes that connect as they drift off into infinite. Finally, I originally saw the concept of infinite as a series of disordered, scattered hexagons all over the place. Developing this further, I looked at each individual gallery and having each one have the perception of being endless, until you reach the next gallery. In this sense, they aren't infinite but if you refer to the connections image, one can see that the galleries do go on and on.

Exercise 7 - Gorbunova A.

Exercise 7 - McNally

In approaching this assignment, my goal was to create a relatively simple space that could ultimately portray intense and complex and aesthetically appealing shadows. By constructing a simple colonnade, I was able to find certain shadows and light reflections easily. By adding, subtracting, and altering light sources in formZ I was able to experience different moods and personalities in the views, just by simply changing lights. I also used different rendering and composition tools in order to make views and images more interesting.

Exercise 7- Rameez M.

The space and pattern i used was a swimming pool. Originally i started with a rectangular pool and tried to make the water appear as solid and the surrounding concrete to appear as void using light. In the axon image the water reads as more of a solid because the texture gives it more weight than the white. In the worms eye axon i was attempting to give the water a solid mass that reads as a heavy solid as well. In the zoomed axon i used light to create implied edges which arent easily seen in reality. So the light provides an end to something that seems endless. In the top image i tried to get into the space a little more. I changed the shape to an L-Shaped pool and tried to use the boundaries of the pool as the foreground of the image.