Posted By: Jordan Parsons
Our final project for the fall semester began with this brief.
The thesis of your final project this semester investigates the american tradition of the freestanding country house situated in the open landscape. Applying the spatial lessons of the prior exercises as well as the new topic of spatial transparency, you are to design a landscape in similar architectonic terms as a devise for developing and extending reciprocal spatial relationships with those of your project eleven cube.
(more…)
Posted By: Jordan Parsons
We just finished a project to define space with playing cards. That was the simple version. The project brief read like this.
“How can planes be combined to define a composition of spatial volumes within a larger single volume? Using an everyday object — “a deck of playing cards” — you are to explore how to develop a series of slots in the cards that will make a number of implied spatial volumes when the cards are combined…”
(more…)
Posted By: Jordan Parsons
Meet Mike, Mike is the reason I have gotten next to no sleep since Monday. Our assignments up to this point have been designed to teach us basic skills, such as spacial recognition, basic model making, and learning how to accurately represent something through drawing. We have been working on isometric projections, and perspective drawings in our drawing class.
(more…)
Posted By: Jordan Parsons
Well, here is a design for some T-Shirts we may print for my studio. Its just a real preliminary thing. And abstraction is a term that the studio sort of focuses on right now, so its sort of an inside joke, but mostly a cool word.
(more…)
Posted By: Jordan Parsons
Well, its been 5 days short of a month that I came to Carnegie Mellon. After a week of orientation I started classes. So far we have done 7 projects with one due Monday, and one Wednesday. Our projects have ranged from making a 2×4 from rough cut lumber, to projecting planes through our studios. The plane project was very interesting. It was not super creative, but it was an interesting exercise because it made us think both about the outline of the studio, and the negative space that outline represented.
Anyway, I’m now working on a project involving 73 2×4s, and creating a volume with them that uses no adhesives or binders. Its actually quite interesting. I’ll be sure to update with more info and pictures. Also I plan to add some portfolio items up and just some random opinions.
February 15, 2009 at 4:50 am | 
