Feb 21 – Making Reviews Productive
What are the most important things to communicate to reviewers? Conceptual design – underlying ideas to be the building block for the project. including what is important from the site context. (site problems/issues /interpretation) Narrative – why are you designing,…
Music Response: Step Out
Step Out by Jose Gonzales is an anthem of sorts, full of peaks and valleys that drive a sensation of rising, movement, and the experience of standing on the precipice. The collage I created is a response to this. Taking…
Collage One: Industry + Nature
In an effort to visualize the experience I hoped to get from my design I created this collage. The image contrasts the industrial steel forms of the production labs with the hardscaped urban rainwater filter. The greenspace carves a valley…
Hot Stuff: A Material System Study
Since the inception of this project I have found myself studying different types of feedback loops ranging in form from natural growth and decay processes to urban circulation systems. When considering possible material studies another feedback loop came to mind,…
Material Study
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Wax
More of these will be coming later. These experiments didn’t turn out at all as I was expecting, but I stumbled onto the fact that these strings became a hell of a lot more stiffer after pouring wax on them….
Branding and MakerKitchen
We were tasked with coming up with a new brand and logo for our project. I got a little excited and carried away with this project, just check out my notebook! I then brought all of this into Illustrator…
Site Diagramming
This analysis started off by another student and I creating an urban masterplan for Zidell Yards. We looked at multiple urban plans for the site and combined the best parts of all of them. We continued the checkerboard pattern of…
