here we go!

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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

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…

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

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