Stitching, Cutting, and Weaving

Looking at the weaving and cutting part of the assignment as part of the site and the form intertwined

For the first part, I used the same stitching pattern weaving together. I isolated two different line patterns and colors to use as a guide to the weaving of the pattern

In this folding, I saw the pieces of the voids as the form intersecting the landscape. Cutting through ground and weaving back up

In this weaving, I combined two of the stitching patterns together. As I created this one, to me it became a diagram for the site and the movement  of visitors to and from the form

Fabric Research

In preparation for he final part of our three part project, I have been doing some research on different types of fabric, specifically South American styles and what I have observed has very influencing



 

        




From what I have seen through this research, in terms of color, it is vibrant and eye catching. Many pure colors that contrast and play of of each other.
The patterns are very geometric, going horizontal along the fabric and including triangles and diamonds that play off each other through the horizontal lines that run across the fabric

Folding of the Millard House

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Millard House, also known as "La Miniatura", is Wright's earliest "usonian" houses. The house is innovative because of its textile block building system.

Folding the paper was interesting and very challenging in terms of finding spacial sequences in the plans, I found the most difficulty in trying to fold and create space that related to the Millard House

These two attempts were some if the most successful, in mu opinion, of creating a nice spacial sequence or a some kind of form
( the bottom one even stands up!)

The Drodel below was special because I used a hierarchy of the program to create the folds, the important pieces of this floor, the entry level, the dining room, kitchen and the entrance were folded up while the service and storage areas were folded down

This actually worked to create some interesting side views which I believe would look good in section

The negative side of the fold also looks very interesting with the moving planes

Final "Drodels"

 Axonometric Section and Views [ in relation with the columbarium ]

Plans and Concept of Roof in relation with the columbarium 

A Different Kind of Casting

Test Pencil Holder

_ results of first casting experiment

 _ while I am not able to get the bottle neck out at the moment, I see the experiment as an overall success for a first try, the colors work well and the textures semi-worked
         - the scoring on the front came through slightly [ would probably have to make them deeper for better              success ] last picture
         - the scraped chipboard on the bottom and side made a good impression, actually looks somewhat                  like concrete   second and third picture
         - the glue came out the best, leaving an overall relief on the back that looks very clean and came out                easy [ could possibly work in the future for doing orb forms or for more organic tracings ] first picture

_ Experimenting with Casting: Making a Pencil Holder

 _ Experimenting with Textures, Color, Shapes, Molds

           - Using Ink to turn the mold black

           - Trying a Bottle Cap to create the void to hold the pencils

           - Using different techniques of marking the chipboard to create texture on the holder [ hot glue,                        scraping the chipboard, and scoring it ]

           - Layering molds on top of each other [ putting regular plaster on top of black plaster ]

Exhumation Process

Stay tuned for finished carving of Hauchon Hexagons

After a lot of flip flopping, I decided to make the Hauchon Hexagons in relief, so as to appear as if the "king and queen" at the end of the perspective are "looking over" the "town"

You can see I have mapped out the perspective in this 3D look at it with the relief on the bottom of it

Inspiration for Exhumation

GOTHIC GRAVITATION

Andre Rocha, Portuguese Surrealist Illustrator

- this drawing emphasizes the city at a human level

- When we walk down the street we perceive the city as a            perspective 

         - therefore, our perception is narrowed slightly

Creese argues for a redesign of the city at a broader scale and a better urban planning to better the human experience

Barry Parker's Ideal Combination of the Cauchon Hexagon with the Radburn Scheme (right)

Actual Settlement in Northenden District, Wythenshawe, England (below)

- realization of the scheme to the right 

   

     KING AND QUEEN, Shawhead, Scotland 

                   Henry Moore, 1952-53

"The British citizen would know that loneliness and anonymity in a given situation were the common experience of the modern world, even for kings and queens"

                                                                     

PERSPECTIVE OF A BOOK

              

Exhuming the Book

PRE-CARVING

The Search for Environment: The Garden City Before and After by Walter L. Creese

      

     Creese examines the the evolution of the Garden City and suburb pre-Corbusier, comparing philosphers and architects of the time connected to the Industrial movement in England and America during the 19th century. 

     Creese then seeks to answer how did this affect housing in the 20th century and what are its implications?

 "The men and women who now lived in blind streets had lived, 

themselves or their fathers, beneath the open spaces of heaven.

In the high moments of his history man has answered the beauty of nature

with the beauty of cities, but for these exiles the dreams

of mind and hand were as faint and distant as the mountains and forests

whence those dreams had come. No public grace adorned their towns;

religion was too often a stern and selfish fantasy:

music and painting were strangers, at home among the elegant rich,

but doubtful of their welcome in this raw confusion.

- J. L. and Barbara Hammond, The Age

This quote expresses the authors feelings about the architecture of the time during the Industrial Revolution and what Creese is trying to prevent. We see the emotions of the people and how gray dank architecture affects them.