tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50043361914070410392012-01-29T09:40:42.693ZSketchbook of Architectural Design and Research Works | Taipei | London |Bradley Slivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10369763987639083949noreply@blogger.comBlogger1551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5004336191407041039.post-20077991080859843402012-01-29T09:40:00.000Z2012-01-29T09:40:42.700Z

A behind the blog look into a hand sketch I prepared entitled "land" I was interested at the time to integrate typography directly into the landscape as a plan formation. Here I'm simply drawing on intuition and creating hypothetical spaces replete with lantern canopies sand hills, high reliefs, and other interests at the time.  Image and Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva |

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Mid-Term progress critique at Shih Chien University Mid-term project critiques at Shih Chien University, Department of Architecture.   Image Credits: Pie | Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva | Experimental Studio | All Rights Reserved.

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A Rumination about the Mystery of Mixolydian Island "Somewhere along the terrain of Mixolydian Island rests a stage especially crafted for an audience of a few inhabitants. Here, the delightful musical progression resonates through the soil and foundations of the island. Strings, taut to key, are routed into diagonal tunnel-chambers in significant metrics below grade. A concrete saddle

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Linework produced from a historical revitalisation project in Fort Worth, Texas. This piece entails the 2d documentation of particulate matter in the architect's detail palette from the 1920's. The building on which the image was inspired is a 2-storey brick-facade building with a fenestration of wooden-framed windows. Flower-like entablatures add richness above the transoms and moulding

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I'll be giving a critique to Diploma students at National United University: Department of Architecture: Miaoli, Taiwan 18-DEC-2011 Invitation by Möore Chen

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(Fig. A) Interior Ethereal statement | x-view (Fig. B) Exterior Field | Possible In-situ. Non Street. Untitled W.I.P. researches into radial application of 3d casting onto oval surfaces. Each 3d cast anticipates unique sculptural casting morphology.   Image and Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva | Experimental Processes Studio | All Rights Reserved.

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Falun Gong is a complicated cultural issue concerning human rights in the People's Republic of China. Their existence as an organization is inflammatory in the eyes of the government. Yet, their grassroots efforts abroad have led to the discovery of practices in the suppression of speech among other policies.(1) As a matter of fact, the notion of protest is part of an underlying narrative in

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A piece from the Merged Symmetries series.  Size: 609x914 Media: Canvas Image and Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva | Experimental Studio | All Rights Reserved unless otherwise noted   

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(fig.a) Super Asian Gothic refined. (fig b) bas-relief decorative clay A year in review, I needed to refine the terminology of the Super Asian Gothic. Super Asian Gothic is a manifesto on the new aesthetics borne of the post-Globalist hemispherical relationship of architecture. Presented here, (fig. a) is a concept image of the new syllabus for the polemical juncture of Asian Genius Loci

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(fig a.) A recent design project (a digital model) (fig b.) A recent design project (a physical model) The architectural efforts of model-building, drawing, and computer drawing is a constant gap I'm trying to bridge. Here are two examples of how I feel I'm getting closer to ameliorating that previously frustrating gap in my design / creative process. While I still feel my physical

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Friends & colleagues, check out the forthcoming edition of OUTPUT: November 2011.  It features the award-winning piece entitled Line.Scape Topologies. The forthcoming book will be available on Amazon soon.

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(fig.a) Digital Sketching | Impossible Clay Current development of formed-clay features on a water-shedding surface. While the construction of the clay-components involve a process including 3d printed clay forms and hand-made forms. Each piece is joined together in Daoist temple- like precision. Overtime I would expect the glazing to wear and chipping might occur on the repetitive units.

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(fig. a) Distortions of buildings and the machines that build them. A ...recent analog piece I've been working on will be featured in a group exhibition. Date: August 13th, 2011 Location: Bopiliao Historical Block 剝皮寮歷史街區 Curator: Association of the Visual Arts in Taiwan Featuring the following artists: Bradley Sliva、王仁傑、王志文、王鼎超、白如伶、朱麗麗、何孟娟、何季圜、何政宏、何瑞卿、吳心荷、吳易澤、吳祚昌、吳極、李思慧、李慧娟、李燕華、林志偉、林志賢、林怡君、林芸

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(fig.a) Extant condition | Aberrant Rock Formations (fig. b) New condition | Aberrant Rock Formations Without a doubt, the idea of returning to the playtime of childhood is an interesting connection in the meta-narrative of the aging process in the education of an architect. Here, on the beach, even the most distant mnemonics of sandscapes and seascapes harken the impulses of the

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(fig. A1) Accretion Theatre | A Nascent Sketch (fig. A2) Accretion Theatre | Development Sketch Citations for the sake of literary fictions¹ allow my design process a respite. While forms, shapes and spaces categorize and re-organize (themselves) into a cortex of visual diagrams, the outputs begin as a nascent diagram available for follow-up.  Dizzying concoctions of non-standard

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I'll be stopping by Shih Chien University to sit-in on an final architectural review and critique on Friday, June 24th.    Image & Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva @ Experimental Processes Studio

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(fig. A) Stairing, Fodder Fodder for stairing | Towering developments.  Image & Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva  

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While you were absorbed, the meshes were refocusing the habitats into curves-turned nurbs. Contours refashioned, sections flexing their sculptural muscles of pattern methodology. Unlike fashionable modes, studios, that is, the method of application is purely un-parametric. Which is the utter bore of those with Architectural Associations. Rather, it's much more akin to a Victoria Secret

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(Fig. A) Pushkinksy Revisited (Fig. B) Pushkinsky Original New horizontal red carpets (concept-design) I designed for the Pushkinsky Theatre in Moscow, Russia. The red pods would allow for LED integration, and would feature the latest theatre and movie/showing on the facade.  Here, the rendering is depicted in red, to illustrate the idea of the ephemeral red-carpets, which harkens back

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(Fig. A) Accretion Theatre | Rationalism, thereof The dialogues of my work oscillate between speculative forms and the craft of artifactual production. Notions the fever-dream and the bastardized phantasmagoric academic architectures mesh and collage together with the haptic-constructs of human connectivity and perception to objects both digital and real. Enigmatic capitalist-flows and

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I was pleased to sit in on a architectural review at Shih Chien University in Taipei. With special thanks to undergraduate tutor: Redd Hung. His students were charged with re-thinking the idea of the Taiwanese wedding banquet. I appreciated the students non-linear approach to wedding practices whilst using the tools of the banquet (tables) to communicate a polemical stance on the institution.

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Experimental Processes Studio New Website. Please visit my studio's new website.

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Writing: Forthcoming to the web, I'll be releasing a few photo-documentaries and writings based on my travels in Europe and Asia. These travels have been a formidable educational experience in addition to a so-called formal architectural 'training'.  At the moment, I'm debating on titles to wrap up the narrative, as this kind of cohesive urban record – a pursuit in constant need for a memorable

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(Fig. a) Facade Test. Glazing, internal view and pods Image & Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva @ Experimental Processes Studio

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(fig. a) Index facade | digital sketching v.2 (fig. b) Index facade | digital sketching v.2 screenshot more process on my other website:: link

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(fig. a) polymorphic modules | testing limits Production of polymorphic module testing.  Image & Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva | Experimental Processes Studio

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(fig. a) pv arrays and nano-fab skin Current development:  Dual-coated nano.fabric connected to the welded-steel, irregular-web structure. The web supports a bio-mimetic multi-branch photovoltaic array of high magnification pv-pods. The nano.fabric is a proprietary system. The mesh (also flexible) anticipates double-curve geometries. fig. a, rough study model demonstrating pv array.  

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Grapes of Collapse x 2 #3. Artwork created for private collection.  Part of a limited production series of rough-drawings/sketches featuring the (touch-and-go) bio.mimetic literalism in drawing production. Again, the architectural drawing transforms itself into a 'fine-art' endeavor through exercises of conceptual drawing of an unbuildable, unfinanced architecture: and instead, the

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(fig. a) panels on tendril development Picking up on patterning¹ techniques on amorphous tendrils. Rapid prototyping allows the piece-by-piece construction of otherwise difficult-to-build geometries. Number assignments are categorized for each tendril, and panel information is printed (etched) upon the surface. (see image) Panels are unique, but as a concession to practicality the assembly

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(fig. a)| Decontexting Typography study Preview from the Decontexting Typography Series. A focus in the series features figure-ground diagram of speculative conceptual neighborhoods. Created for a private collection in Taiwan. Ink, Graphite, 5.2"x6.5" on re-used printer paper. 從印刷術的Decontexting預覽系列。該系列中的一個重點特徵圖地面圖投機概念的街區。油墨，石墨，5.2“x6.5“關於重新使用的打印紙。 Image & Text source: Copyright of the

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Analog Sketching | American South Thailand This featured rough sketch is merged from two pages from my sketchbook spanning different time periods in mid to late 2010. The torn seam occurs vertically and irregularly down the center and grafted by mechanical instrumentation, flora, text, plan diagrams, and a bus ticket. Lines (mostly heretical and abstracted), approximately depict content

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Best in Category | Richard B. Ferrier Prize, KROB2k10 I'm pleased that a work from my Line.scape Topologies series was awarded the first-ever Richard B. Ferrier Prize in the 2010 Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition. Esteemed Jurors: Dan Wood, AIA, LEED AP | Co-Founder and Partner, WORK Architecture Company  Gary M. Cunningham, FAIA | Founder and

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(fig. 1) @_@ | Digital Sketching "@_@" Studies for open-aired spaces. Architectural elements untethered, gridded frames (Cartesian backdrops). Plentiful arrays of circulation spaces combined with interstitial spaces for the super-structure. Ground plinth, loading docks, etc. Image & Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva @ Experimental Processes Studio | All rights reserved

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(fig. a) Digital Sketching | Graphene Dream (fig. b) Digital Sketching | Graphene Dream (fig. c) Digital Sketching | Graphene Dream With announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize award to Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov for their research of Graphene(1), the pursuit of ever stronger materials becomes more enlightening to those of us practicing the application of high-end materiality.

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討論 Discuss | Recent Works A discussion with future practitioners within the architectural profession in Taipei, Taiwan. Thanks to: Milton Chen Architects for the invitation to engage other professionals in the field.  Image & Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva Photo: Milten Chen, Architect.

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(fig. 1) Self-Editing & Revisionist Process Self-editing and Revisionism. Revisionist control over digitality[¹] is one the more tedious efforts in drafting digital form and space. Here is a 'behind-the-blog' view into my process. This specimen, from 2008, is a poly-mass architectural concept. The mark-up, very crudely and expeditiously, depicts the linking of the aforementioned volumes.

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(fig. 1) shin kong mitsukoshi shopping arena | curb appeal (fig. 2) shin kong mitsukoshi shopping arena | curb appeal Click here for description: link here Image & Text source: Copyright of the Author, Brad Sliva

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(fig 1.) Conditioned Chaos | Digital Sketching (fig 2.) Conditioned Chaos | Digital Sketching  "La Trahison des Images"  The Treachery of Images ¹ (fig. 4) Conditioned Chaos & new sheath | Digital Sketching (fig. 3) Conditioned Chaos | Extant Abundance |Taipei City     A treachery precludes build-ability? But is this truly so? Future possibilities, manifested in

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(fig.a) SOGO Festooned SOGO¹ Versus Shin Kong Mitsukoshi shopping Arena. Hong-Kong, Tokyo, Taipei. The plot-defined battle for consumers of apparel continues in the matter of technically engineered vocations and plodding planners. Metropolitian megaplexes strut along the upper-tiered income strata like belligerent peacocks. Devices, which offer incentives to the kinetic advertising to act

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(fig.a) shin kong mitsukoshi arena |Merging politically unfriendly commerce (fig.b) shin kong mitsukoshi arena |virgin commercial real-estate (fig.c) shin kong mitsukoshi arena | horizontal vectors escort shoppers shin kong mitsukoshi asian shopping arena | Chapter One. Meet us at the lobby near the ice-skating rink. No, silly not the entrance by the chain fashion store, the one by

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(fig sag.1) Super Asian gothic | Digital Sketching (fig.sag.2) Super Asian gothic | Digital Sketching Like convoluted columns of Daoist Temples, [the possible predecessors to the Convoluted Flesh], there is also an attempt to reconsider the Asian Super gothic, at least for a brief moment to re-institute the interior space occurring within the traceries of architectural decorations. Moreover

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(fig. d.2) Losing Ground | Bloated Tendrils | Massing Clusters Losing (Gaining) ground is the  connection (relinquishing of) to a given context. Where are we in the predominantly inert and innocuous architectural debate? Formerly, notions of genius loci (literally, the spirit of the place) applied to the body of work for an architect grounded in the ontology of place [no small endeavor];

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(fig. c.1) Architectural Aquarium | Overbearing Atmospherics (fig. c.2) Architectural Aquarium | Business Fish Ancient schools of architectural fish acquiesce to the tidal flows presented within the architectural aquarium. The vibrant, undulating  jungles of corals mesmerize and enchant the onlookers and buoyant bodies alike.  Taxonomy of the following orders: Fortune fishes of

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(fig. i.) Orderly Fashion | 2d line kindergarten (fig. h) Orderly Fashion | Perspective Sketching unscripted. Image Source: Copyright of the Author

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Image Source: Copyright of Brad Sliva

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(fig. e) Perspective (fig. f) Perspective (fig. g) Perspective [v.2] .2 cross-sectional ribs subdivide the underlying double-curved sheath geometry. A heirarchy of 3 systems foster the poly-dimensional section primarily consisting of semi-perforated sheath, a coordinated system of arrayed tendrils, and distinct massing clusters. The visual complexity derived from the

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(Fig. A) Orderly Fashion | Perspective View sans Sheath (Fig. B) Orderly Fashion | Anterior View (Fig 3) Orderly Fashion | Posterior View Image Source: Copyright of Brad Sliva

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Over the next few months I am preparing a small exhibit based on the re-visualization of extant built landscapes and how these ____.scapes can help inform the conceptual drawing/modeling process. The theme running through the exhibit will focus on the quasi obliteration of the horizon and reconstruction of the sky.line. The source material is derivative of engineered sites [a tacit obliteration

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I'm currently preparing a collection of observations for a lecture series I'll be giving entitled First Haptic Impressions: We are spoiled by the Transparency which Modernism (architecture) has bestowed upon us. For example, humans have been enabled to 'experience' a glass door, and with the luxury of technology we forgo gattungswesen¹ and thus become estranged to our

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What truly stipulates the education of an architect? Is it a degree? Sure. [formal] Is it a diverse set of life experiences revolving around varying architectural ecologies? Sure. [informal] What I've found most refreshing about trying a freestyle approach to studying architecture [think S. Rasmussen meets Q. Tarantino], is that in an over-saturated world of architects and so-called

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We make speculations and illustrate dreams of a better world: This is what we do as designers – even if only to indulge a moment's reverie. Here's České Budějovice's new Přemysl Otakar II fake beach sketchbook mashup.  I first took a sketch I completed several months ago of a suburban street-scene in West London. It wasn't exactly a picturesque scene. Most people wouldn't bother to look, let

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The irregular planar formations on the 3d fabric contain varying height interpolations. Unlike the parametric method, here, the strategy of generating a mesh is derivative of contour mapping occurring naturally on the earth's surface. As a consequence there is now a greater flexibility to edit the underlying curved host-geometry. Image Source: Copyright of the Author

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With the exploitation of aberrations in scripting sequences, I became fascinated with the possibility of assembling these aerial images into speculative simulcras of landscapes. These quasi-real "places" exist in time and scale; however, their proximity, here, is called into a deliberate cubist operation and routine. This activity of montage readdresses the analysis of point, line, and plane –

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(fig. 1) Alt-facade | elevations (fig. 2) Alt-facade | perspective When I was in Prague this fall, I was intrigued by the polychromatic and multi-textured facades throughout the city center. I was particularly inspired by the ornate metal doors found near the Prǎzký Hrad. Along the procession leading to the castle, I noticed the Italian Embassy which featured a baroque configuration of

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I was asked to create a blog for internationally published architect, Dr. Marjan Colletti. The objective was clearly demonstrate the myriad writings, projects, and latest news leading up to Marjan's forthcoming visiting studio at UCLA in the United States. We began by using off-the-shelf technology freely available via blogging engines utilizing CSS and HTML coding. While I have worked with

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My entry, along with the other finalists are arranged by visiting the following link to the competition's website. link The artwork, or delineation rather was a specimen from my Line.scape Topologies series entitled "Cloud.scape/Eruption." The text and imagery concerning this piece can be found at this link. link  Image Source: KROB

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A brief experimental sketch for creating complex planar festoons using non-scripted logic. Here a semi-regular surface is extracted into a heightfield where the depressions and clefts of the surface become readily apparent. The grain is modulated as a course–while the z-dimensions remain steadily uniform. Overall, this sketch offers a look back at the festoons and lace piece by fashion designer

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One of four analog sketches for Linz, Austria to demonstrate the exploration-by-drawing process for creating/imagining speculative environments. Shown here are process images from a larger set of drawing experiments introduced into a 3d environment. Technically, I'm interested in the creative translation of the quick 2D analog sketch into the space of a 3D model to create alternative urban

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  Alternate proposals I generated for the Goodwood Pavilion, see post below for full description of the project. Overall, I was searching for the spirit and the celebration dynamics, and the visual stimulus of speed within a static structure. The formal/visual considerations revolve around a fairly simple investigation of creating a multi-curved, convoluted, and sinuous surface. I was especially

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Value Added Tectonics |VAD| Addendums added to extant structures created to generate additional capital [cost per square foot/metre/ping, etc]. Attribute can be applied unusable spaces on difficult-build-sites to maximize profitability.  
Post-Brutalism Revival The use of texture templates used to imprint patterns, text, lines, into plastic materials other than concrete. Irreverence |Burning

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A small booklet hangs on display after a year's worth of use. This pocket-sized planner I designed in 2007 and used until the cold London winter of 2008 is a perfect example of living with one's own design. Everyday, I experienced both the flaws and the positive attributes this design entailed. I was afforded a year to ruminate on the changes or improvements I would have made on it for the next

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Formal/visual digital sketch created explore undulating sections and a multi-layered interior digital space. These reflect the spatial qualities I'm intrigued with.

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Conceptual Transect An overall idea or conceptual strategy  condensed and demonstrated through the architectural section or graphic. ie: from swamp to swimming pool (aquatic). See: Sloan, Kevin critique of Nasher Sculpture Center landscape. Pairing A pair of juxtapositions (extant) are merged together to create a design composition. Mother-Child Ensemble (Massing Clusters) A compositional

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Was the presence of this space "designed?" I had a wonderful conversation with the owner of the Candid Cafe (courtyard pictured here). Our discussion revolved around the fact that spaces which evolve over time and initiate a sense of community ownership which foster truly memorable spaces. What I found engaging about this space were the things that I find in all spaces like this – the organic

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(fig 1) Oval pavilion | Entry (fig.2) Oval Pavilion | Entry Concept renderings created for London artist Gerry Judah for the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Situated in South England's country-side, the pavilion design is a longitudinal oval featuring a 15m cantilever at the rear facing a two-storied mansion. The ovals form is a direct reflection of the site's front entry sequence, namely

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Additional Concepts I generated for The Goodwood Festival of Speed.  Image Source: the author

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Some Ideas I've been thinking about lately:EleganceIndelibleAppropriatenessDigital ModernismPerception of ComplexityPost-Deconstructivist SpaceRevivalismUn-designed, Hands-onSoftware Physicsillusion of simplicityunsealed spacea-spatiotemporal consciousness (reciprocity therein, is there a juncture between)human mind v. human brain (what is ethereal and what is matter)*[still looking for an

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The unofficial concert poster for the nascent indi-rock band from California named the Local Natives. The typeface is set in DIN. Image Source: Copyright of the Author

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I'm proud that my work, as part of the Unit 20 summer exhibition, was briefly recognized in this week's issue of Building Design - The Architects' Website. The writer, Barbara-Ann Campbell-Lange, referred to my Line.Scape Topologies laser cut drawings. Though it is unfortunate that I am not credited properly, considering there was a label underneath these pieces, but I am still glad to see that

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Merged Symmetry 'whirling around'

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Logotype Design for Recording Artist and Music Producer, LehtMoJoe. His work has been featured most recently on Röyksopp's 2009 Vinyl release entitled "This Must Be It" featuring the vocals of Karin Dreijer Andersson, the lead singer of Swedish pop-electronica band, The Knife. The logo, featured along side with an illustration has been seen at live performances, including the Granada Theater in

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Merged Symmetries: piece #2 Image Source: the author

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Digital Merged Symmetry. A model of refuse. To be honest, we can return to symmetry without letting Modernism's Dogmas make us feel guilty about using it as a formal strategy. Merged Symmetry imbues a sense of order in the midst of chaos - which is now a normal occurrence in architectural schools. If we were to critique (without predilection of form), symmetry would allow us obtain a

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I told the tutors at the beginning of this year that I was interested in the indelible. I never brought it up during the rest of the semester, but I still feel strongly about it. This means, that there is a fine line between what is an architectural commodity (architectural drawing for production) versus fine art. Does fine art as a method of production have validity in the production of

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Finally, I began to merge the 2d print series I've been undertaking entitled Line.Scape Topologies, into a 3 dimensional context. Here, I'm using an emergent frame structure to support the more whimsical pattern elements. Still, it's not an enclosed structure as of yet - I'm still refining the emergent components for "shelter." It's an experiment. A Tutor's comment remarked it's too sculptural

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Study model using analog emergence technique.

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Study model of connection modules.What do I like about this design? The module's flexibility, which enables (and anticipates improvisation) in the construction process. In other words, it is adaptable to all site vectors. The next step is to introduce modules which enable enclosure and solid elements.

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I volunteered to run the UNIT 20 Blog (because I have a ton of extra time), and my first step to stepping up the quality was to design a identifier for the blog. It might go through another iteration when i get the chance. No one asked me to do this. I did it out of the kindness of my heart. The base typeface utilise the wonderful members Helvetica Neue family. Image Source: The author

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I once thought that a professionalism which instills trust as quality in business is what clients (even corporate ones) are attracted to when selecting a designer for a commission. However, more and more, I tend to believe that it's 'all about being hot'. Let me explain. Zaha Hadid, who for the better part of her career was creating conceptual architecture, is now probably the highest in

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Exhibited here: An older SLS model I designed earlier as part of the Wedding Chapel. I don't feel like explaining it at the time of this post. Image Source: content the author, photo taken by Kasper Ax

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A logotype designed for the Texas indi-music blog, Subservient Experiment. I employed a base type named Annonce, digitized the Canada Type Foundry, but based on a version of a 1912 Johannes Wagner Foundry classic called Aurora Grotesk. The chaotic and sketch-like scripting manipulation of the typeface, was initiated by the Digital/Analog Flattening Theory I sometimes use for 2d work for

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Is it possible to connote an ethereal situation via an abstraction? This drawing, entitled Eruption/Cloudscape attempts to address this phenomenon. The drawing itself is a static representation of set of dynamic and seemingly un-scalable forces. Forces that when paired together create a sublime ecology. What are the conditions for the sublime? An answer sometimes resides in the realms which are

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(fig. 1) Piccadilly Circus Facing Regent St. Note right-most facade (fig.2) Piccadilly Circus | Advert-laden facade One Piccadilly Lights: The Fetish of the Circus. "The use as an advertising medium of illuminated lettering attached to the façades of prominent buildings appears to have begun in the 1890's. Piccadilly Circus (or rather, its north-east side) has since become the citadel

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This pattern is off to the laser cutter tomorrow morning. I thought I'd upload this image because it just goes to show that there could be beauty even in the process of creating things, in this case the cutting-out of pieces too tedious to do by hand. I gave it a bit of colour and now have something to show for what would normally be discarded as digital refuse.image source: property of the

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...when the values for land become otherworldly whilst the facade (convoluted flesh) supersedes the "ground floor" rent-value building/sculpture commodity. As en extension of Marx's thesis on commodities, David Harvey writes "Under such conditions the land is treated as pure financial asset which is bought and sold according to the rent it yields..." I ask: How can we subvert these values in

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In the alley-ways of Oxford University getting some crisp afternoon sun. Image Source: Mita Huang

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This highly complex model is purposefully symmetrical. That it involves a semi-strict routine of scaling, shifting, bending, and other strategic forces. Image source: the author

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This digital model-gone-wild... It's not necessarily a "worthy" thing to post considering the content I want to deliver on my blog, but i'll post it anyway because of the the sheer absurdity of the lines generated. Image source: the author

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This is an interior view. I need to add the rest of the model to it, such as the promenade platform (a flat and level item) as well as some of the elements which give the image (reader) a sense of scale.image source: the author

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A render of the double skin exploration. integration of a more regular inner fabric.flesh. Here you can see the exuberant structure which support the bouquet (chapel). image: the author

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1:1 scale mock-up of panel showing how panel could interact with moisture and light. Clear Panel with embossed patternisation. Shows dew accumulation on surface with full moonlight.Now the challenge is to have about a 1,000 more of these panels...I think exponentially the criteria for the ethereal sublime ecology might be achieved. I felt this was a way to create magical lo-fi effects. This

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(fig. 1) Ontologies and stray marks Concerning the ontology of drawing: And the Use-Values created by them. How does a drawing come into being and coalesce into something built and yet keep the initial spirit of the drawing? As an example, if this sketch, which I did a few days ago, were translated into a digital model 3d or 2d, what would it lose or what would it gain? Invariably, the digital

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Section through Wreath-Room, (an externalised exedra). Progress shot showing where the couple will burn the wreath, as amplified from traditional Swiss wedding ceremonies.

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Progress shot of exterior shell. Modeling the pattern work is difficult. You can see the other second shell within the chapel.

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(fig. 1) architectural study/process model | SLS + basswood + c.board Quick study model to illustrate the chapel volumes. scale: 1:100m Image source: the author

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(fig. a) structural ties Is it possible to have a complete theme from the program of a wedding chapel right down to the detailing of it? I do. I propose to tie the knot, so to speak. Lately, I've been struggling with finding an appropriate way of of joining the fabric that is actually super-lo-tech and sustainable and which could be fabricated by local Swiss craftspeople of the Village of Vals,

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In this piece by Rouff, we see the ensemble of "Lavish embroidery, festoons of lace and rich silk damask..." to create an interplay of eexxaaggeeraatteed volume, semi-transparency, folded surfaces, perforations to create a haptic and ornamental experience. Certainly this is evidence of mastery of materiality to accomplish such a texturally complex interplay of surfaces. Festoon: ORIGIN mid 17th

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