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!

articulated cloud

by ned kahn
Pittsburgh Childrens Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. 2004

Composed of thousands of translucent, white plastic squares that move in the wind, the artwork is intended to suggest that the building has been enveloped by a digitized cloud.

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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction."

 _albert einstein

"Imagination to more important than knowledge."

... i think this was my high school graduation quote. he also said that.

KICK START

For my final project as a first semester MArch I at the GSD, I hastily created this stop action in the wee hours of the morning and began my presentation showing this film.

Lock Project

The project program, while perhaps in a way arbitrary, is a series of theaters and tight gallery spaces. The spring board for the work for each of us was a simple mechanism; mine was the Oldham Coupling Unit. I concentrated on the subtle movement that creates big shifts when the pieces are allowed to slide past each other, requiring inscription. Each sequence in the story of the building creates a new arrangement of program, allowing and disallowing passage, opening and closing the theaters and expanding them. At one special moment, the very bottom gallery reveals a secret corridor, allowing a body to pass into the wet grotto below, and to step out into the inscribed and carved earth work.

Structure studio pt. 1

 

 A study on bending concrete waffle systems. 

 The studio focuses on how to manipulate structural ideas, and of course for me a new set of protocols! This study is created by 7 different sets of protocols which not only creates density into the surface but coffers each panel different. There is a gradient of subdivisions from base to cantilever and also a gradient of porosity. The overall form is based off of 3 flowers created from A triangle, basically creating 3 over sized pilotis which connect to each flower at a point more like a point arch. The center space you see here is an that was created naturally due to how the flowers were created. That is all for now, i'll get into more specifics when I have time, and i'll update you all on my tensile structure in a couple days :P


Until then!

spring is here!

the steps came alive in front of alma mater this afternoon. spring is here.

[interrogating] hades chamber

the icon: the pear

 

 

plan strategies

formal taxonomies

model photos coming!

...into the underground

the images are edited from my midterm presentation.  my first, of the advanced studio sequences.  it started out the same as most.  pushing abnormal schedules, and working through the night to plot, model, and do the presentation mash-up.  oh what fun we have in 500S (gotta say, sick view of campus - overlooking the central square. nosy pigeons and water color sun sets [/rises]).

carving out terra firma for a pear shaped performance space, light and air.  the sequences leading up to 'hades chamber' (complete with three-headed guard dog) are meant to architecturally spatialize the story of orpheus entering the underworld in search of eurydice.  the procession is broken (for now) into four acts; the threshold into the underground; the grotto; the river of styx; hades chamber.  haunting reverberations of civic infrastructure and orchestral maneuvers in the dark echo as one approaches hades pear-shaped performance pit.

check it out... so this is all happening at the old trolley station at delancey and essex!  after receiving (surprisingly enthusiastic) feed-back the push begins to re-organize and re-visualize this project in sexy (but, informative) images and models, models, models. 

more clues coming later!