Posted By: Jordan Parsons
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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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Posted By: Jordan Parsons
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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Posted By: Jordan Parsons
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.
Posted By: Jordan Parsons
This project was done with Aaron Chenault as a group project for 48-105 Architecture Design Studio.
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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.
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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.
July 27, 2009 at 12:41 am | Comments (0)
