Mid review for studio tomorrow; totally unmotivated to give them the drawings that they want. Trying to keep interested in my project. Rendering I did as part of “concept development”
Finally I have some more work to post: This series shows the visualization of web exposure of companies in Toronto’s “creative industry” area of Liberty Village (like Vancouver’s Gastown) and represents their physical location as the centre of the sphere and the size of their internet exposure dictates the size of the spheres.
The bottom is a model made using the Rhino digital model and the 3d printer at our school to create a physical artifact (my first 3d print).
CNC Training/Rhino Cam exercise for Intermediate Computing Class. Three foam blocks designed to work with the machine path and cutting bits. Not the most amazing samples but a good starting point to more CNC’ing
Pretty much took the whole weekend off of work (if you can count 5 hours combined as no work). Super nice fall weekend + saw some friends + ate some tacos + drank some margaritas + got schwagged out with a sour cherry pie.
Back to it this week though.
Wrapped up a competition for a Zoo tower in downtown Buenos Aires with some friends Sunday evening but have been too busy to post. Unfortunately it’s frowned upon to show images from the competition until the judging is done. I had the flu and it was up to the rest of the team to bring it together late night Sunday. Pretty rad work.
Tonight Zach and I put together perspective images for our studio deadline that we rendered up and photoshoped in a 30 minute-ish photo-shop off. Here are the two images:
And now, late night, time to get to bed: Just finished a model and printed our panels for our studio deadline for tomorrow (4:17 AM). Something so satisfying about having all your work printed out, cut to size, and ready to go for deadline. Time to sleep.
Diagram for studio course; layers of new proposed urban infrastructures. Work in progress.
The following is my contribution to my group work for the Cities Workshop. It is a 3d visualization of the zoning regulations for our site and a number of predictable scenarios that might work given the floor area ratio. In order: total built envelope, underground area including subway line, residential podium towers, commercial towers, and a low perimeter block. The study was to analyze the site in a way that is beyond a planar site and show the three dimensional potential.
It’s probably no surprise that I’m super busy right now. A couple things are going to be finishing up at the end of this week; I’m excited to post those as they finish.
We’re doing an all school design exercise for the whole week as part of Dean Richard Summers “Cities Workshop”. 300 Students, 15 groups. Up the workload. Pretty good experience so far.
A highlight of the workshop this morning was a designer from somewhere in the US talking about how much he loves Wall-E and how Wall-E was inspiration for a design project he did. Also, hearing someone who went to Harvard’s Graduate School of Design faculty calling themselves “just another a-hole who went to Harvard” and talking in an interesting way about hip hop and mashups in relation to architecture was rad.
