Jordan Parsons
- Second Year Architect

S09 Final: Knot

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The assignment was to take an existing project, and use our final three weeks to take it even farther. There were stipulations of course, and I was steered towards my knot project. The knot project was a wood shop project, that was to interpenetrate a knot into five segments. I had chosen the taught line hitch knot to make out of cherry. For this final project the five segment design was to be turned into a space to hold five pieces of art in the side of a cliff. This seemed like a stretch, but it lead to interesting results. Gallery – Jump to the pictures.

The Process began with looking at the spaces created inside the knot. I started with projecting planes along the sides of the five segment knot to enclose it, selecting the outermost planes and working them around the knot resulted in an outer shell which was the mass of the museum. I struggled with the internal divisions, I was not happy with them for a while, they were too simple for the semi-chaotic outer shell. My professor suggested that I try to be more chaotic with them, so I went along those lines at his suggestion to attempt to create disorientation for someone experiencing the space by hiding the art pieces, and by moving them across uneven levels.

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Light Modulator

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Our latest IDM assignment was to create a light modulator. Working with my partner Aaron Chenault, we designed the following setup for our light modulator. We have yet to laser cut it, but when I do I will have pictures of the cut and assembly. So here are the details of the assignment along with some quick 3D stuff to get a feel for how it will look.

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It is now cut, with the renders and photos taken, pictures after the break.

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S09 Water Project

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This project was done with Aaron Chenault as a group project for 48-105 Architecture Design Studio.

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House of Cards

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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…”

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