Imagine:Design::Tell:Story

STORIES:

Almost everything in life tells a story. You look at each person's desk in the studio and it describes a little about who they are and what they like. From this past week I have seen several stories through artifacts, fairy tales, Pat’s piece of furniture, “Midsummer’s Night Dream”, religions, and dress. I have seen stories mostly through dress this week from my psychology of dress class. The way someone "dresses" themselves tells a story about who they are.


ARTIFACTS:

This week we have seen several different artifacts in Design history and theory, as well as in everyone's opus from Suzanne's class. These artifacts have a special meaning and purpose behind them either to someone or a group of people. A cross is not only an artifact to me as an individual but as well as to the Christian family.

MULTIVIEWS:

We see multiviews of objects, stories, people, and other things to get a different picture and understand of things. I have seen several multiviews in the movie we watched, "Midsummer's Night Dream" through people. I have also seen it in drafting for Pat's piece of furniture by doing multiview drawings. By recognizing there are different views, we get a better picture of what we need to be seeing and analyizing.

CYCLE:

In our history and theory class, we have been learning about the cycle of reusing ideas from the past. Not only buildings, but furniture and color patterns all repeat theirselves at some point in life. This happens for different reasons, just like history in the United States. It is important to realize and learn this for future purposes and success.

TRANSLATION:

In studio this week, we have had to do a lot of visuals from text. Our fairytales produce different moods, colors, textures, pictures, etc. Through this we have to translate what our views are onto a board and create an artifact. This helps with our creativity and product making. We are able to translate thoughts, ideas, and images from our minds to create something visual and physical.




THROUGH THE ENTIRE WEEK, WE HAVE SEEN STORIES, ARTIFACTS, MULTIVIEWS, CYCLES, AND TRANSLATIONS. ALL FIVE OF THESE TIE TOGETHER BY TELLING STORIES. NOT ONLY IN MY INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE CLASSES HAVE I SEEN THESE WORDS BEING USED, BUT ALSO IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND PSYCHOLOGY OF DRESS. THE WORLD AROUND GIVES US DIFFERENT IDEAS AND THOUGHTS TO CREATE AND IMAGINE DIFFERENT DESIGNS. THESE DESIGNS THAT ARE CREATED TELL STORIES.

CITATIONS:

http://hubpages.com/hub/bodymodificationsmodify

www.onlineathens.com/photo/archive/2006-40.shtml

www.freefoto.com/preview/05-08-10?ffid=05-08-10

http://www.mediablvd.com/forums/index.php?act=calendar&code=showevent&calendar_id=7&event_id=573

http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-identify-antique-wooden-furniture-for-refinishing.htm/printable

Drawings/Model

These are some of the drawings and models of my concrete structure. This also shows the model to scale of our building edge with our concrete structures placed in their given destination.

Concrete

At the beginning of this project, we started by gathering information on the parking lot. We then broke into smaller groups; mine being the building edge. We observed our area and made a "throw-up" drawing. We then gathered ideas on what we thought about creating with concrete. This structure is one of the four that my group came up with. This particular one was the one I helped create with Kathy. We made our mold and used bubble wrap for a texture. We then caste our concrete and came out with a 12 inch circle with a 6 inch square in the middle. We were very happy with the outcome, and ours did not crack so we left it as it was.

Dialogue

It took me a couple tries before I knew for sure what I was going to do for the final project. My first idea was very simple and straight. I decided that I wanted to do something a little more complex and came up a better design. The folds within it gave it a different and unique look as well as upped the complexity. The new look created several different pathways, gave off different effects, and came together with unity and dialogue.

Rod and Plane Sketches

These were some of the sketches I did for the project. I realized that my model was much harder to draw than I thought.

Rough Drafts

Both of these were examples and rough drafts of how I got to my final project. I did not know what I was about to do or construct and basically played around with the skewers and paper.

Site Plans

12 Rods and Planes

As I began this project, I had a lot of problems of producing a design using all 12 rods and all 12 planes. It took me several different tries to decide how and what I was going to do. My first attempt was very unorganized and did not use all the materials that were necessary. As I kept working on it, I came up with a similar idea to my final project, but then decided that something else needed to be change because it did not satisfy me. The way I had the paper positioned on the rods bothered me, so I as I worked with it, I arranged the paper in the way it is on the final model. I felt like this gave a good view from top, bottom, and side. It produces spaces within the paper, as well as within the rods. They are all connected to one another and hold each other together forming unity. This is how I decided that my final model would work for the final presentation.

Unity: Compare & Contrast

As I looked around the critique room today, many of the projects captured my eye. I saw a lot of unity and a lot of different ideas and techniques. One that I found that stood out to me was Kalani’s. It reminded me of the Shell that I have previously learned about in Patrick’s class.

It is obvious that Kalani’s and mine differed in appearance in the fact that his was more rounded and curved. Mine on the other hand is more straight and direct. It has flat planes instead of curved ones. They also differ because my skewers are very parallel. Kalani’s skewer’s are a little more tilted and do not exactly lay parallel to the one another.

In comparison, there are spaces made within both of our projects. In Kalani’s project, there are definite spaces that are formed between the sheets of Bristol board, as well as with mine. Patterns are achieved by this, but also with the use of the sticks. I believe that both of our projects show a lot of care and precision. They appear that each skewer and each sheet of Bristol board were positioned according to their perfect place within the project. The sizes and how much space is revealed was also a concept that appears to had been carefully thought about.