Cleaning Up...alone!

Hannah and I were the only ones from the oasis group to help move the concrete pieces from the parking lot to the storage area. we along with Tristan Haley Rebecca sharon Kristina and Philip moved all the concrete pieces from all the groups even though some of the groups had none of their members out to help. We spent a little over an hour making multiple trips from the parking lot to the storage area. it seems like the same people who were out helping clean up were the same people who did the majority of the clean up when we moved our stuff from the inside storage area to the outside storage area. 

Presentation

Stones

This is an image of our stepping stones. i helped add the texture and round off the edges of these particular stones. we had to add the texture ourselves to a lot of them because the natural texture made from the cardboard did not work on all the molds.

First Model.

This is a picture of the first model we made. we originally wanted to make pillars and a full path of stepping stones. We were told that the pillars would take a month to dry and we decided against a full pathway because there would be too many pieces to make.

Getting Molds and Getting started.

I got these images from our class blog http://finalprojectphase1.blogspot.com. The pictures of the shoe boxes are a bunch of boxes that Hannah and I collected at the mall. we went around to all the shoe stores asking to get their boxes. the other image shows the process of us using those boxes to create our stones

Notes

these are some pages from my sketchbook of notes that i took during in class discussions throughout the process of this project. there are a lot of notes and drawings and small sketches to show what we talked about in class.

Top View and Section

this was my top view and section drawing of our pieces. the top one shows the dimensions and shape and the over lay of tracing paper shoes the texture of our pieces.

dialog

the top one is my second model and the bottom one is my final.

Dialog Drawings

Unity

These are my drawings for my unity project. The top left image is my graphic. i also put up the gesture drawings, contour drawing, plan, and elevation.

First Iteration of Dialog Project

This is the first iteration of my dialog project. It has a clear two spaces, however i plan on adding some folds and variations to give the dialog between the two spaces more energy.

Unity

Process Drawings and Sketches for Unity

Comparing Unity Projects

I decided to compare my project with Neal's project. Our projects are very different yet there are still some similarities. Neal's project has more movement than mine however in my project is take advantage of the aspects of simplification in that my project has simple modules that are repeated throughout the project. In Neal's project he manipulates the planes so that they curve, this is very different from my project in that my planes remain straight. The proximity of my levels and planes being together is closer than the proximity of Neal's planes to his base. Another part of this that differs from my project is that his project has a base and my project does not. Some similarities of our projects are that we both have layers or levels. Neal's project has 3 levels while mine has six. Both of our projects create some sense of pattern. The three wave like levels create pattern in his project while the spiraled openings of my six levels create pattern in my project. Neal's project seems to expand and stretch out more horizontally while mine clearly expands and stretches upwards vertically. My project uses more alignment than Neal's project in that all my rods align and all my planes align. Both of our projects have a sense of continuation in that my modules continue upwards while his plans continue horizontally. Both of our projects have a sense of the Gestalt theory in that The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We both created separate pieces that were put together to create one unified project that works better together than apart. 

Unity Iteration #1

this was my first iteration of my unity project. it differs from my final project in that there are only 4 levels and there are no openings in the 4 levels. each level has three planes instead of two. it also differs in that there is a stand at the bottom where the three rods are visible. 

A Box for 12 Twigs

the brown box at the top was my final project. the box that looks half covered with drafting tape was my first iteration and the black box was my second iteration. i am very happy with how my final box turned out in comparison to my first two. 

Studio Theory Hour

I found the lecture on sustainability and architecture 2030 to be very interesting. i like the way the speaker talked about humans being a storm and i found that it is a very good point that nothing can be constructive without being somewhat destructive aswell.

the speaker talked about the founder of architecture 2030. his name is edward mazria. the concept was adopted by the aia. the concept is to have fossil fuel reduction starting at 50% now, 60% by 2010, 70%by 2015 80%by 2020 90% by 2025 and 100% by 2030 which is why it is called architecture 2030. the idea is to produce as much carbon as we use.

One of the main points made was to get energy and carbon from sustainable sources like water, wind and the sun, these sources will never run out and they are free.

Another point of the lecture i found to be interesting was the idea that the greenest buildings are the ones that already exist. this was followed up by the idea of "long life loose fit" which means we need to create buildings that will be here for a long time and will be able to acomidate things that it was intentionally built for. if we create a building that can only be used for one certain thing then what good will it do us in the future.

In the lecture the speaker talked about different organizations like LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) which focuses on green building. it was interesting to learn about the proximity hotel

interim critique

Today we had our interim critique for our box for 12 twigs project. the most common issue for the projects over all was probably the craftsmanship. this is sort of ironic because we had to read an article about craftsmanship this week. For my own project this issue applies. i was told that i could use a black tape instead of coloring my cream colored tape black which is something i am going to investigate.
Another issue that we found in a lot of the projects was the focus, and relating to your precedent not too literally. if your precedent is a flower, it doesn't have to look exactly like a flower because that takes away from the focus of the 12 twigs which is what the project is really about.
One issue that we had in our critique was making sure everything had a reason, and everything related to each other. we had people saying that the reason why the did something was cause it looked cool, or they were playing around with paper and then it just happened. with my personal project i said that i made my box black and it looked like leather but that really didn't have anything to do with my 12 twigs or my precedent which was a CD case, so i have to find a reason for the surface of my box.
overall i think the issues that we came up with in the critique today will help me improve my project a lot. i have ideas now on how to change my box for the better and i got a lot of constructive feed back.

precedent for twig project

the precedent i found for my box for 12 twigs is a cd case. i am going to make my box small and short and have a lid that opens from the side much like a cd case. it holds the cd on the inside and when you open it you reveal the cd. the cd is held inside by something like my twigs will be in my box.

Place for a Leaf

my place for a leaf