Project 2: Things I cant live without

This is early collage of things which I am unexplainably interested in or fond of.

I feel to me my interest in architecture derives from the feeling that the only way to prove and idea to myself is through its physicality.  Everything is this collage is something physical, something you can learn from or use to prove something.

I will try to draw connections and themes out.
Paining, architecture, art, technology, materiality, density layouts, nature...

 On the surface, technological design and its seamless integration within an object or building is something I am interested in.   I believe the best new technology is one that is quiet, something that is unseen or seamlessly integrated into the product.

All of the canvas paints shown have the similarities of a unclear image as well as a imaginative aspect of artist interpretation.  I enjoy the pollack style of painting for its sense of ambiguous composition as well as the connection of the reader to the audience due to the imagination of how he painted the painting.  I believe this imagination strengthens some forms of art.

I believe just as intention to designer connection can be strengthened through imagination, so can architecture.

As much as I enjoy the sexy smooth concept car I also am very fond of holding dirt in my hand while squeezing it as it falls though my fingers.

Automated building processes also interests me and although I believe dynamic architecture is not valid form of architecture right now, I am intrigued to see how long it can be resisted by the field.


work in progress basil aeroponics shelf prototype.

The ceramic pebbles the plant will sit are seen through a glass front face.  This front is meant to show the contrast of above and below with the ground plane being a thin piece of wood.  The roots will hang down through the baskets and get misted, along with the ceramic pebbles, 15 minutes of every hour.  The reserve in a future prototype would be hidden further away as well as an exploration in a fogger rather that a mist-er.  

At this point I see apartment agriculture as a possible future activity.

Do not yet support the benefit of it as a plausible offset of food production and transportation.

Interesting books, one about ambiguous spaces which discuses the idea that architecture can not be a means to an end to its extreme.  The second is ecological urbanism which is a book I agree with most of its preaches, however the main motivation in this book is for the environment.  If all the projects were implemented to create a city, maybe it would lead to a more dynamic place to experience and live.

Buildings of interest.
I was very impressed by the exeter library.  Its a masterful building which  I am drawn to because it is so carefully designed at every scale, without feeling over designed.  I also enjoy how the building brings you through a variety of spacial experiences starting from the exterior, as the building sits in a flat field, up into the main space, and then through each dark stairway as you move up through the wooded spaces.   The final destination being the carefully laid out study spaces which then focuses you back out towards the landscape.  Materiality and light are used to enhance these spaces.  I do think at times some moments felt as though the design was close imposing on you, for example there is a couple areas in which the chairs face out a window which is facing straight out a window.  The window is just shorter than eye level.  My mind was changed when I found the chairs were being populated by many people in the library.  

The thermal baths is a great building to me.  I think its obvious use of stone helps the experience feel more natural as though you are within a carved out space.  I appreciate the selective use of ceiling light which plays with the heavy feeling of the space.  My favorite room in the building was a pool room which had a very small opening and was only about 8 ft by 8 ft.  The room was maybe 20 ft tall and had rough edged stone the whole way up.  I enjoy spaces maybe for its strong sense of enclosure or maybe just because to usual spaces were exposed to.  

The well at St. peters is a building i've never been to but I think would be a very enjoyable space to experience.  the building is a double helix made to walk horses down to the water well at the bottom.  I think the unusual proportions, structure, circulation, and lighting all could add to a very enjoyable and slightly uncomfortable spacial experience.  

I have always been intrigued with associative modeling and generative design. 

However I am undecided about its benefits.
I think it's reference to natural occurrences is something which relates well to ancient proportioning systems, which find much of their validity to proportions within nature or the human body.
  Associative design also has an inherent ambiguity which I appreciate.

  I can't help but get excited by images like this.