Well our professors have started a website for our studio. It’s full of fun and games, I mean architecture. http://cmuarch2013.wordpress.com/. Go check our some of our projects and some interesting material.
This project was done with Aaron Chenault as a group project for 48-105 Architecture Design Studio.
February 15, 2009 at 5:16 am | Comments (0)Our final project for the fall semester began with this brief.
It all started with a joint. Or more precisely the making of a joint as pertaining to architecture. Our professor gave this as a prompt to a classmate and I to make a small presentation about. They immediately then told us not to make it technical, so types of joints were right out. We interpreted this as using architecture to join different areas, such as a buildings site, context, and some other aspects of buildings. We took context as a jumping off point, and since both of us were from suburban areas, on opposite sides of the country, but none the less suburbia. After we made a few comments, and showed a few projects by other architects, most importantly New Suburbanism by LTL Architects.
We just finished a project to define space with playing cards. That was the simple version. The project brief read like this.
September 24, 2008 at 11:50 am | Comments (3)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.
September 19, 2008 at 11:27 am | Comments (0)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.
September 16, 2008 at 3:23 am | Comments (1)This is just a little piece of design work, its one of my favorites.
This is a 2250 frame fly around of a project I am working on as a personal study. I know I could have done a little better with the camera, but for a first attempt, I’m pretty happy. There really is no meaning, its purely a study. My biggest issue is the flickering that can be seen around the floor, but I think now that I have 3Dsmax I can correct that. View the video by clicking more.
September 14, 2008 at 2:01 am | Comments (1)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.
