Project 3- Final

Project 3- Midterm

Project 3- North End Rare Books Library- Early Stuff

Our last project, and the only one we had more than a week and half to do, was a rare books library in the North End of Boston (super dense Italian neighborhood). The site was jammed in the middle of a block spanning narrowly between two side streets. There was a Franciscan church across the street on one side and a super ugly apartment building adjacent to the site that had no dialogue with the street whatsoever. There were two primary site axises, one running perpendicular to the two streets and one running diagronally across the site dividing the site into two triangular spaces. From the offset, I used these axes to define my formal moves. I developed a wrapping surface system which would define and divide the programmatic elements of the library and would provide a broad based formal gesture that would efffectively be reflected the materiality of the building as well as the structural elements of the building.

Thick Wall- Project 2

This project was an initial study in part to whole relationships in relation to programmatic requirements. It was supposed to lead us into our next project, but I really didn't take anything from it.... Eh whatever. We were supposed to place 11 reading carrels in a thick wall condition of a library. The way I dealt with it was to randomly do whatever formal thing I wanted for fun based loosely on an idea of disparate seperation between light and heavy programmed moments to create an experiential affect in density.

So behind on this....... Aggregation Project

This is the first project of the semester in studio... It was a random masonry aggregation project sans mortar, so the geometry of the brick had to be intelligent enough to span in compression as well as operate formally as a bottom-up dialectic.

skyscraper thing i did

So this was supposed to be for the Evolo Skyscraper Competition but I didn't get it out in time... Don't think its quite complex enough anyways.... But yeah... Its a tower in downtown boston that yet another university could move into. Exhaustive i know...

Meatscapes

"Hi. This is my thesis project. I need a double bypass now."

SO IL for P.S.1 win.

SO-IL PS1 Pole Dance from SO-IL on Vimeo.

Not sure what it is exactly... balls on top of netting on top of poles so that everything moves together? Still super playful and nonsensical. I really didn't care who won so long as BIG didn't... Those guys get enough press as is....

museum of tolerance

I'm kinda glad this thing isn't getting built... freaking ugly as heck. Maybe the creators will take a page out of South Park's book and design it with these elements in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxRqiNq-XJI

Kinda cool genetic algorithmic form manipulation device... Not sure how it works but I'm trying to create something similar in Rhinoscript using point attractors and randomizers.


http://www.armyofclerks.net/ArchiKluge/index.htm

This song just begs to be put in a really crappy corporate animation.... Still like the song.... The video makes me feel crazy fat and out of shape. Eh oh well. Back to this EZ Cheese can and South Park episode watching for me...... Man my life is interesting.