new year’s resolution
I’ve devised a project in representation for myself. Originally I thought that my ‘project’ for the new year would be to take a photo each day and see where that took me. Yet upon reflection I realized that as much as I love sharing what I’m up to with everyone I know, I’m not excited about sharing such things (like the faces and places) with the world. So, I’ve decided upon an experiential project. I think the beginnings are going to be a bit shaky (how does one sum up a day in a photo? In a sentence?) but hopefully it will evolve (for the better) with time.
here we go!
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when did it become october?
what a month. i don’t know where to begin so i’m not sure i will try. we (my studio and i) have been worked to the bone and have yet to fully come up for air. this is immersion at its best and worst. our professor is rigorous, but in an extremely rewarding way.
we are working with ‘rule sets’ to design with, without getting caught up with algorithmic architecture (blah). the hardest part so far is just getting over the fact that our designs must originate from rules. i originally thought that this would take the beauty or poetry out of a space, but at our last pinup the professor said that my work had poetry. so much for admonishing rule sets…
today i am working on our second pin-up. this stage of the project is focusing on buckminster fuller’s concept for a dymaxion map: a “construction” in the truest sense of the world. fuller’s construction was a part of his attempt to demonstrate his “one-town world” concept which relied on seeing the world from a “dynamic, cosmic and comprehensive viewpoint” in which the political borders of nations are erased and replaced with a single contiguous border–the “one-town world.”
to integrate this idea into our performance-form pavillion, we are creating modules. each module is a “cousin” of one another, meaning that it follows a similar logic of construction but can look fundamentally different. the pavilion would be made of three of these modules combined in a certain pattern to create structure, lighting systems, seating, and pin-up space. this pattern will then be “unrolled” in rhino to create a composite much like fuller’s rendering of the world.
while i’m still working on the basics, here is my “rule-set.”
photos of coffee lids, organized by rules
i’ll try to get a few photos up of the violin transformation…don’t have a black background at the moment so being as photo-picky as i am, there won’t be photos until there’s a background 
project one segue
this is looking up into the cloud
the edges of the structure 'bloomed' to move into the second wave of logic
bits of the canopy
georgia o'keefe does coffee lids
done with my first project! i wasn’t the happiest with the project as a whole, but after working (and re-working) the photos, i’ve become quite fond of the “anti-hive” we created. here are a few tastes 
this project was about a ‘surface-form’ and the next project leaps off of that idea into a ‘performance-form.’ these photos are going to be used as that springboard…
one week
made of coffee lids and binder clips: looking up
this past week has been such a whirlwind! i will post more photos once they are all done, but these are explorations of an elevator interface. this one’s name is the cloud
whoa.
My professor from Smith, Jim Middlebrook, wasn’t joking. He said that grad students don’t sleep, they just eat, think, and breathe architecture. Yeah, sure. I already do that. Nope. Wrong. This is eating, breathing, living architecture. My friend just moved here a few days ago and i have STILL not seen her. why? too busy. so the posts are dropping off drastically. It would be prudent to check on saturdays, as one a week is my goal toodles!
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new here
oh well, a head start is definitely a head start. by friday we’re having a pin-up so i plan to spend the rest of tonight going through the catalogue of rhino tutorials. ciao! 
