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For my first project, “the hidden room,” my final model was a “3-D print” from a thermojet machine, which works like an inkjet printer except that instead of spraying ink on the surface of paper it builds up height by spraying layers of gypsum powder and wax. The assignment was to design a building with four rooms plus a “hidden room” which had to have access from one of the four rooms and the exterior, yet be easily missed by a visitor. Since this was our first project, there was no actual site, program or user, but was more of an exercise in geometry. If you’re REALLY, REALLY interested (… you shua you’re shua?), you can read the project description and constraints that had to be met. Here’s a very interesting article about a full-size 3-D house-building machine.
These were study models made out of paper exploring two earlier possibilities. |
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This is a view from my desk. Compare this to the scene when I arrived at school to empty desks in September (page 2) and to later views around my desk area at final review time on page 5. Notice the display panel with a printout of the “hidden room” project at the top of this page.
Fall colors at Holden Green, my housing complex. Compare this to when I arrived (page 1).
A final project for a drawing class, where we used tape to create perspectival illusions. My group made it appear that there was a line of columns receding into the background.
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This was a study model for my second project: an elevated walkway through the triangular courtyard between three office buildings. This was nicknamed “the lobster” by everyone who saw it. |
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Views of the final model showing the interior and the view from above. View the project description and constraints that had to be met here. I already find myself becoming spoiled by the state-of-the-art equipment available to us at the GSD: the plexiglass shapes for “the lobster” project were quickly and easily cut using a computer-controlled laser cutter and the hidden room project model at the top of this page was created on a 3-D printer, but these are tools which may not be readily available to us when we get out into the “real world.”
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A study model for the third project, a “tripod building,” that provides studios, offices, auditorium and other facilities for an institute of advanced studies. The tripod building is so named because it connects and sits on top of three existing buildings on the site. (More about the tripod building on the following pages.)
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