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.
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