S&P1
Project3b conclusion
Tingru Yang
1. Use different information to present your work such as sketch, drafting, and images. For drafting drawing should be clearer, the line way is important, different line way indicate different condition and material.
2. Label the drawing such as scale, title, are, and dimensions.
3. Think about the images how to connect to your works.
4. We should be aware of our arrangement in our presentation.
5. Use a position of people and also think about the lighting, shadow in montage.
For my presentation, the drafting drawing should be clearer such as line way and also included all part of site. I need to use two images to show different situations of model. And also show the drawing how I can put the model away.
Naomi Faison
Studio Practice 1
Amy Campos
Project 3c
Conclusions
Over all, I think everyone has major improvements to make:
Presentation quality- order and consistency of worked pinned on wall, labels, making sure things are at an appropriate eye level for viewing.
Amount of work presented: Including sketches, making sure important details such as material, dimensions, and human scale are included.
How the design will function: Considering different ways the design can be used, how well it will actually work in designated are? Where else can it function? What changes can we make to our designs so that it can have multiple uses? Considering small details such as wheels and locks.
For my project in particular I need to adjust my storage system by making my storage compartments functional once rolled away from table, and putting compartments in the storage bens. I need to improve my presentation by providing more detailed explanations of my design through montages, sketches, photos, and labels.
Critical Feedback:
I found all the feedback helpful and relevant, however the most critical feedback received was on how I can improve my design through my techniques and strategies. It was brought to my attention that I was not consistent with certain successful strategies used in my models, such as making separate but similar area within my model. In order to have all my models be as successful I can start with simply solutions such as eliminating a base and better defining the interior spaces within my models.
The theme I choose while designing my three final models was that each space,( rest, conversation, and concentration) , can be a dual space for all three activities. From growing up in an apartment, and living in dorms I believe that it is possible to have multiple activities take place in the same areas. In order to rest, the average person needs a space to lie down that is big enough to allow comfortable movement, a low level of noise, and dim lighting or no lighting at all. In my models I created multiple areas with screens that shielded light and created a different mode with each section. It would be up to the person to decide wither they want to rest, converse or concentrate in the chosen area since everyone has a different preference. Typically in order in concentrate a person will need a seat, desk, and good lighting. Each of my models have areas with different light conditions, so if a person prefers a low lighting one day and high lighting another than they can be accommodated. In order to converse, a person needs to be comfortable. Lighting and noise would depend upon the casualness or relaxed nature of the conversation. I believe that a person can use a space with various lighting conditions, seating, and scale to do virtually any of the activities which is why I concentrated on making a my spaces multi purposeful.
It can be transparent, telling of its age, it will rust and weather, it can form an elliptical shape, it has been described as having an ever-changing and sometimes ephemeral quality, it glistens and is reflective of sunlight, while at night becomes transparent and glows from internal illumination. These are some of the words and phrases I found associated with the behaviors of metal and properties of various metals depending on the way they are used.
Through precedent research and some hands on experimentation, I found that qualities, behaviors and properties of metal to be a very stimulating and satisfying material to learn to manipulate through the use of tools and techniques, treatments, or even by little to no maintenance of the material allowing oxidation and weather have its way with some of the metal, particularly steel.
The rust inhibitive primer was applied after this process began to halt the advancement of harmful levels of rust that would compromise the steels integrity.
A good example of metals reflective quality can be seen in Raum Zita Kern.
This belongs to a woman who is a scholar of literary arts and a farmer. It is situated in a suburban farming area in Austria. Here, aluminum is used for its inability to rust and benefit of low maintenance care for that reason. The changing sky creates a heavenly site at eye level as you walk by.
- Transforming and using different strategies to creates spatial experience.
- The form the models should be related to spatial effect of sequence.
- Using nylon as a tool to create the condition of light.
- Exploring and considering the transition between each boundary.
A comment made by Ancha in response to one of Iza's models was her sophisticated use of angling a structure to create a point in the shape like a V or L while also narrowing the height and width of the space it stems from. The addition of the transparent material hung at this point of transition caused the other room to have more privacy because one cannot look dead on into the next space, and anyone on the other side of transparent material is only a silhouette also giving them more privacy even when they are in view. I intend to keep this in mind when trying to create multiple spaces versus adding a wall to create separation between spaces or to add privacy.
Another model from our class had a sort of honeycomb pattern that was made by adding multiple strips crisscrossing each other. This model, on its opposite end, had the same pattern, but was instead created through a more subtractive approach by using the negative space left when illuminating shapes from a plane. I am very interested in this subtractive approach to design. I believe it to be more sophisticated and part of my responsibility as a designer not to create more, but to create more effectively from what exists.
Another tip I gathered from the critic was that spaces could be designated as different areas just by their point of view. For example, within the space of another model there was an area that stepped down from the rest of its plane. This is reminiscent of residential homes which used to have a stepped, either raised or lowered, living room or dining room area all within one space, without the addition of walls, but that was which was observed as a new space. Another clever way to distinguish separations in difference of use without completely severing the room with a wall. Again, I will work to integrate this thinking into my future models.
One of the most common problems in almost every person is the clearly defined boundary. We all thought about conversation, conservation and rest should be in three separated spaces, which made our models uninteresting. I remember what Amy, Rebecca, and Margo said about transition between each space, it doesn’t have to be something between spaces to define the space, but the conditions, such as lighting and surface can change the feeling of the space.
Secondly, the used of material should be more concise. Mainly I used nylon as a decoration, but what nylon should be is as a material. I know nylon can dissolve light by layering nylons together, but if layering the museum boards also have the same effect, using nylon becomes unnecessary. Nylon is stretchable, and different tension creates various conditions of light and layering. Exploring the properties of nylon and applying it thoughtfully to the models are also important for model making.
Another point made in the critic is the chronological order of the three spaces, I always think about the three spaces as a transition of public to private. Conversation for me is like an open public space, conservation is like a semi-private space between conversation and rest, and rest is a totally private space. However, one of Jeanell’s models used conversation to separate the space of concentration and rest, which seems interesting to me. People can choose from public to private or public to semi-private, they don’t have to go through from semi-private then to private, which gives the chance for people to choose their own path in the space.
As the result, I think it would be better if I can play around with the spaces, not thinking too rigid of the spaces. Space shouldn’t be defined too clear. My light and volume model define the three spaces too obvious, and the spaces are in order, there’s no interest for people to walk in my order of space. I should think of engage the space with people.
2. 2.Regard the nylon as a tool to control transparency and translucency.
3. 3.Two space not just stick together but there should be relationship between them.
4. 4.Consider myself as a part of the space.
5. 5.Think the teal meaning of “rest” “concentration” and “conversation”.
6. 6.Details. For example where to place a small part of nylon and think of its function.
