shit storm

can someone tell me what's going on here?

one man's trash...

in the beginning there was a pile of shit.

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what happened?! i blacked out.
when i came to, i had this thing in front of me.

two overlapping paths wrap around a central theater space.
one public path, is rendered with solid floors and light walls, the other, below, is rendered in opposite materials.  reveals provide visual and auditory connectections between the paths and enhance the atmosphere of each through reverberation and echo.

orpheus. down down down. underground!

A-Periodics?!?! NO....just A tile.

Finishing up my final studio project this quarter for the M.Arch 1 program and this is what i'm left with. 1) a piece of code for danzer tiling, 2) Connection points to make clean connection among tiles, and 3) 100 extra pieces I was never able to put together.....

The built portion of this project consist of roughly 6oo surfaces glued together (4 straight days of building)....the process was a difficult one due to the scale of the pieces. Its a little odd to say that the 1 to 1 scale mock up might have been easier to build then this 3/4 model was...but time will tell after break. Hopefully I'll be able to build this during break! Wish me luck!!

b4; timelapse ii

our second night of group work. things are getting dirty. we're working hard to polish this bad boy up.

so far.

frame:
1 x 2's + mdf

topo:
1/8" cardboard

context:
3/32" chipboard [yeah, i know, wtf were we thinking]

application:
gesso
pigments + india ink
acrylic
tissue paper
cheese cloth
newspaper
pigments
beeswax
pigments
fire

more, i'm sure to be applied

my fingers are still gray/black from the last night's marathon rally

b4; timelapse

for brief 4 @ gsapp we're charged with designing a climatology lab for a group of 10 scientists and a whole host of spaces for public interaction. the site is in the shadow of the brooklyn bridge near pier 17 on the old peck slip. it's offering up untold treasures of texture, context, potential and inspiration. hard edges, long shadows, people milling about everywhere, rusted metal, driftwood, more more more to come.

ps. great job everyone. it's going to look killer. updates to come...