ARC 204 / Michael Meredith / AI: Phi Phan

Jeongyoon Song

ASSIGNMENT / ONE

OBJECTIVE

The project uses the analogy of a museum to portray the increasingly public nature of individuals’ lives and unintended exposure to others. The exterior is deceiving in its solid walls and rooms that are close to being full enclosures. However, the translucent walls facing inside leave individuals in the compartments exposed to glances of others who enter from the center right entrance. In that sense individuals who go into the rooms seeking rest or private space have entered a place that ironically places them in what could be considered cages or exhibi-tion spaces. The project seeks to fulfill the objective with the use of: (1) translucent glass as material, (2) adjacency in the rooms, and (3) circulation and publicity in the center that acts as an “examination” space.

MATERIALS

The main material for the project is translucent glass. The material was chosen because one can never fully see the other side. The partial transparency allows those outside to vaguely see movements within and the partial obscurity provides privacy to a certain extent.

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exterior walls - The exterior wall will consist of black finish. Black was chosen because of the solidity and cover that the color evokes.

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INTERIOR WALLSIn the beginning of the process, although the interior walls undulated horizontally,

the vertical axis. In order to accentuate the sense of stretching of individual compartments and tension between compartments, the walls were distorted into morphed shapes.

they were very much straight lines along

PLANThe plan began with rectangular compartments of the required room sizes. Then they were made active: the different compartments begin to shift into each other’s spaces forming outward and inward curves.

SECTIONSThe variations in the walls are reflected in the sections below. One instance an individual will feel as if he’s walking through an open welcoming space and then the next feel claustrophobic between two bulging enclosing walls.

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ELEVATIONS

The interior wals were made shorter than the enclosing walls. Although each compartments seem to be completely private enclosures, in reality they are parts of a single connected space divided by almost-walls.

AXONOMETRIC

ASSIGNMENT / TWO

The project began with these two processes. The first experiments with surface treatmen. Instead of thinking first of the paper as a surface to form volumes, the paper was methodi-cally altered in different ways to form two-dimensional patterns. Process 1 is a conclusion of these surface treatment studies. The ridges (or pleats) formed after the foldings created a crustacean-like undulations that seems to be a two-dimensional object with hints of three-dimensionality. The second process is the complete opposite of the first. This time, the original gridlines remained and the corner triangles were arbitruarily folded or joined then lightly scrunched, forming a three-dimensional figure. The final form of the project is based on the combination of these two different processes.

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ASSIGNMENT / THREE

HUMAN MOBILEThis was a group project in which the assignment was to create a mobile. Our team came up with the idea of creating nets where the human body can climb onto and around the net as live loads. Each and every move made by the body changes the form of not only the whole net but also tighten and shift the knots wherever load is applied, making it a dynamic structure.

ASSIGNMENT / FOUR

POINT CLOUD SYSTEM:

Instead of connecting each adjacent floor to one another, a point system was used to connect corner points to corner points on nonadjacent planes. This was done in order to formulate an external surface that would allow room for circulation.

System for freeing space

STEP 1:

Variation D’s rotations and variation in floors gave the optimal free space between the edges of the floors and the virtual cylinder. Using the corner points of D, the external surface was derived by connecting three of the nearest corner points, creating a surface of multiple facets.

STEP 2:

The original floor plates were deleted all except what would become the floor of the top level in the structure. The elimination of these floors allows a dual function of the “hill” as it creates a hill on one side and becomes a wall dividing the climbing side from the occupiable side (on the lower floor).

The processThe last project was very much based on the process of editing and coming up with alternative solutions. I began with the notion that with four points on the cylindrical outline one can either create floors that can either block or open up circulation. Variations for the floor plate shaeps were created by altering a single corner point’s distance away from one of its adjacent points. Additional variations were created by rotating these at various degrees: 0, 30, 45, and 90.

Connecting each floor with the one directly above it lead to an enclosed volume that left no room for circulation within the volume or between the volume’s exter-nal surface and the virtual cylinder. In order to solve this problem, a point cloud system was created.

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System for floors

Variation A: 3 fixed corner points

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Variation B:rotate 90 degrees

Variation c:rotate 45 degrees

Variation D:rotate 30 degrees

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Using variation B floors

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Using variation A floors

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System for connecting levels

Direct connection between vertically aligned corner points of two adjacent levels.

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Using variation C floors

Using variation D floors

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SECTIONS

scale: 1’ - 1/4”