A JOURNAL OF MY IMAGINARIES BY ALICE FANG
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PUBLIC INSTALLATION
INSTRUCTORS ADA TOLLA (LOT-EK) GIUSEPPE LIGNANO (LOT-EK)
HOPE ROPE My material investigation consists of the “string and glue mummification” of the plastic cup, an object deemed invaluable, disposable, obsolete… When the cup is removed, the string and glue become structurally codependent, and we are left with its memory. As an exercise to scale up my object, I soaked rope in concrete, added wax in between, and used a box as my new cup. The relationship between the string-glue/rope-wax operates together to create something unnatural and uncanny as the rope wants to fall. However, the string is frozen still in the air with gravity seemingly working in reverse, rendering a feeling of unease – familiar but strange. The memory of Columbia Gymnasium’s proposal is physically ingrained in the excavation of the liminal space between Harlem and Morningside Heights. My installation hopes to unveil this invisible history that is otherwise forgotten or unknown. It hopes to avoid history erasure by subverting oppression into positivity and togetherness. THROUGH THIS LENS, DISCOVERING NEW TECHNIQUES, OPERATIONS, AND RELATIONSHIPS DURING MY MATERIAL EXPLORATIONS WAS ESSENTIAL TO INVESTIGATE HOW ROPE COULD BECOME A SYMBOL OF HOPE IN MORNINGSIDE PARK.
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CHAPTER I: MEMORY
Memory is personal, subjective and fluid. To allow the moment to be ingrained into our memory, we need a moment of pause to acknowledge the physical and psychological landscape. My material exploration seeks to memorialize the thread. The act of tying becomes the operation that creates an interpretation of the original object, never accurate, but abstract.
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CHAPTER I: INCONVINIENT OBSTACLE
On-site, the artifact is inscribed in the footprint of the Gymnasium's swimming pool, reflecting the proposed scale of the gym. It intersects with the existing path creating an obstacle. It is an uninhabitable dome that conceives a moment of pause, only allowing the view from the outside and forcing the body to move around the object. 14
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CHAPTER II: UNCANNY
I was interested in investigating the material’s capabilities in terms of height, creating a hollow core. The rope-wax binding operates together to create something unnatural and uncanny as the rope wants to fall. However, the string is frozen still in the air with gravity seemingly working in reverse, rendering a feeling of unease – something familiar but strange.
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CHAPTER II: GHOSTED SHAFTS
The ghosted shafts delineate and expose the gym’s imposing height, but instead of denying access to the Harlem community, the installation becomes a lighting infrastructure to the park. On the cliff, the ghosted shaft behaves like a periscope that enables visitors to look into the park’s foundation covered by the water. 23
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CHAPTER III: MUTATION
I was interested in investigating variations in the act of tying. New pressures create slopes, apertures, openings… My process of making advances as I multiplied the cup generating connections between them. This mutation creates a constellation of satellites revolving around an anchored piece.
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CHAPTER IV: PHANTASMAGORIC ROOM
If tying three points generates a space, the trees on the site become opportunities to create rooms. The word phantasmagoria usually found in literature, comes from Ancient Greek phántasma as “ghost,” and agorá as “to assemble, gather, or to speak publicly.” In contrast to the previous installations, the phantasmagoric room is a habitable space roofed by the trees on-site where the community can gather in a room that is enclosed yet connected to the park. 30
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CHAPTER IV: TYING
Before the concrete/wax method, I tried to use the string and glue technique on a plastic chair in attempts to scale up. However, the string wrapping failed to release from the chair. Initially conceived as an unsuccessful experiment, it became the catalyst for the fourth intervention, which explores concepts of wrapping and release.
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CHAPTER IV: WRAPPING ARMATURE
The installation wraps tightly around the existing trees and releases to create a habitable “skirt and boat” — the skirt of the armature dances with the breeze, while the boat oscillates with different body pressures. The installation attaches to the trees considering their specificity and height to produce engagement and play areas for the community. 34
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GSAPP FALL 2020 OPEN WORK STUDIO
REIMAGINING THE CULTURAL INSTITUTION
INSTRUCTOR ENRIQUE WALKER TEAM BEGUM KARAOGLU CHENGLIANG LI JOEL MCCULLOUGH OLIVER BRADLEY PATIO PUBLICATION
TABLE-CITY With a haunting history of political reappropriation, UNCTAD, in Santiago, Chile, exemplifies how futile good intentions in architecture can be. Originally built in 1972 as a socialist symbol under Salvador Allende for the UN Conference, the building was co-opted into the military headquarters of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. With minimal architectural intervention, the building’s socialist ambitions were completely erased, entering into the Chilean imagination as a symbol of the dictatorship. In 2006, a fire partially destroyed the building. Our project extends beyond the site and reuses what is left to create a new cultural institution in conversation with UNCTAD’s history. Given this political history, we question how we can design for a democratic future without being naïve and acknowledging the imprecision of architecture as a political tool. Monumentalizing architecture is no longer enough since that definition can be easily changed by those in power. Our goal is to redefine the current cultural institution. By freeing the ground and allowing for crisscrossing, the site becomes a public square for cultural exchanges allowing for friction with the city. The new cultural institution becomes an open framework and cultural condenser. Simultaneously, the project produces a moment of pause and self-consciousness of preconceived ideas of space. Our architecture is an actor that instigates political friction, and therefore societal change. IS THIS A ROOF, A BLOCK, A BUILDING, OR THE CITY?
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We utilize four tools: 1. Ground that extends to the city through different patches 2. Roofs that reorganize the block through covering 3. A datum of roof that transforms the tower into a progremeless totem of the city 4. Liminal space between roof and ground that is activated by props.
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The ground becomes a programmatic device that activates the ground through different city patches. The juxtaposition of ground, roof, and in-between offers various conditions that foster a range of engagement possibilities.
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The project builds ten structurally independent tables. Due to the consistent effort to maintain the datum above and below the roof, the lifted archipelago becomes a unity of parts. The specificity of the tables cancels out individual authorship for the collective whole integrating in the cityscape.
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GROUND AND ROOF PROPS UNCTAD III, Santiago, Chile - Alice Fang, Begum Karaoglu, Chengliang Li, Joel McCullough, Oliver Bradley
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The new cultural institution becomes an open framework and cultural condenser. Simultaneously, the project produces a moment of pause and self consciousness of preconceived ideas of space. Our architecture is an actor that instigates political friction, and therefore societal change.
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GSAPP SPRING 2020 DESIGN FOR OBSOLESCENCE STUDIO
DUAL FUTURES OF PRISON
INSTRUCTOR PHU HOANG TEAM LUIS MIGUEL PIZANO HONORABLE MENTION IN THE WARMING COMPETITION
IN.FRA.STRU. CTURE The studio explores the concept of dual futures that require designing for two building types that transform from one to another. “Fracture of Infrastructure” looks into prison obsolescence. Sited on the electrical substations and undeveloped grounds of a decommissioned high-voltage corridor in Newburgh, NY, the project comprises a timber nursery, community land trust, and dual-future correctional network focused on compulsory reformation in the near future and voluntary rehabilitation in the distant future. The voluntary rehabilitation facility emerges from the fracture of the compulsory reformation blocks. THE CURRENT PRISON INFRASTRUCTURE WILL FAIL TO ADAPT TO CLIMATIC CHANGES IN THE FUTURE. The thermal density of this system is designed to improve as its construction progresses. Our project sources climate-resilient, native tree species to regulate climate conditions, organize the architecture, delineate the facility and community’s threshold, and define project phases through their maturity cycles. In addition, the tree nursery on the grounds of the corridors serves as the source material for a CLT business network that provides learning and work opportunities, and sustainable construction materials. Spanning from macro to micro, our proposal creates an underground network that feeds the equitable spaces aboveground and affirms the role of the tree as an organizing agent and climate controller.
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The project proposes a new methodology for climatic study of prisons, called “Thermal Density”, based on ASHRAE variables of radiant temperature, air temperature and humidity. In the floor plans, the darker the area, the less climatic adaptive it is. The research concludes that current prison infrastructure will fail to adapt to climatic changes in the future.
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GSAPP FALL 2019 ACCELERATION STUDIO
HOUSING FOR SINGLE PARENTING
SLOW WATER
TEAM ANGELA SUN
In the South Bronx, 72.4% of households are families, and 41.9% of those households include single females, often taking care of children under 18. Hearing first hand from parents and children in the community, the lack of safe spaces dedicated to kids and access to clean water and water infrastructure were everyday realities of the neighborhood. This led towards researching cultures celebrating water as a holistic performative relationship with the human body, such as Japan with onsens/sentos.
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WE INVESTIGATED HOW WATER CAN HELP ALLEVIATE SOME EMOTIONAL BURDENS OF SINGLE PARENTING, ENHANCE INDIVIDUALS’ HEALTH, AND STRENGTHEN THE COMMUNITY.
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Our proposal for future living provides housing for primarily single mothers who share lifestyles and goals of raising their children within a supportive community. The project also pushes for parent-child and parent-community interpersonal relationships guided by a spectrum of individual and shared water experiences to improve livelihood.
INSTRUCTOR DAISY AMES
Our project hopes to bridge something beyond just an economic model of housing sustainability, striving for human driven empathetic spaces. Instead of a hard-line distinctions between spaces, the programs are interspersed amongst the living units, weaving in and out between spaces as a way to connect public and private, wet and dry, shared and individual.
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“Flooding is a big issue in this area. You see a little bubble, and then a bigger bubble. I had to break the wall in my bathroom, and that’s how I got housing to come and fix things. You have to go to extreme measures to get housing to come. You have to go to the extreme to get any kind of attention.” “Plumbing is disgusting and old, stripped away, and rusted. When housing comes they break down the pipes and that creates an even bigger problem.” - Lenny, Local photographer
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“There are more kids than adults here, but there’s really nothing here for them. It’s not meant for kids to be here. There is nothing to do after school, no sports, clubs, or playgrounds.” - Fanta, 11th grader
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GSAPP SPRING 2019 ILLITERATE LIBRARY STUDIO
POLITICAL ILLITERACY
INSTRUCTOR CHRISTOPH KUMPUSCH TEACHING ASSISTANT MATTHEW NINIVAGGI ABSTRACT PUBLICATION
FACTORY OF [UN]TOLD STORIES “LIFE IS LIKE BEING CHAINED UP IN A CAVE FORCED TO WATCH SHADOWS FLITTING ACROSS A STONE WALL” — PLATO IN ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE, CHAPTER VII IN “THE REPUBLIC.” According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), “by the end of 2017, 68.5 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations.” The 21st century has become a benchmark for the refugee crisis achieving the record of individuals forcibly displaced. Libraries are innately biased institutions in which a few selected individuals filter information and knowledge. Therefore, the curator has the power and the privilege to establish which knowledge is deemed worth sharing. However, the library for political illiteracy aims to shift this power to individuals in need of refuge. The library of forcible displayed people at Sara D. Roosevelt Park, NYC intents to archive, produce, and share their stories, that are otherwise untold or forgotten. These untold stories potentially affect their following generations who often found themselves in an underprivileged position due to the inherited ignorance of their origin. Sharing stories not only allows forcibly displayed people to reclaim their identities and take control of their own life’s narrative, but also offers them an outlet to manage with lost and painful memories and emotions. Furthermore, it encourages understanding of their experiences to the audience, fostering empathy and literacy. Ultimately, through storytelling, the library creates the opportunity of reinvention, assisting them to produce new stories.
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Collecting stories develop an accumulation culture of immaterial and material knowledge. In the detail studies, this phenomenon was translated into an assemblage of a variety of details of buildings such as libraries, performing spaces, publishers, and galleries. The multiplicity of building typologies through layering detail sections initiates a dialogue between them. 109
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Details, metaphorically, are the DNA of the building. By extracting them, changing their context through mutation such as sampling, rescaling, and projecting, the project departures from precision to abstraction, blurring each building’s DNA.
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Books contain a linear condition starting with the cover organized by the spine. By dissolving the spine and fragmenting the sequence, the book has no longer a linear condition, but rather a field quality that allows an interwoven reading of the book.
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The book’s cover turns into memories of the buildings that one day will no longer exist. These fragments of memories are archaeologically absorbed, metabolized, excavated, and projected to create fragments of new stories.
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The envelope absorbs the memories of the site, metabolizes and projects new fragments and stories back to the site. The acrylic pieces are aperatures that frame fragments of the building. Due to the organic form of the skin the visitor will always have different views when looking at the building.
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PUBLIC SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
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HABITABLE CORE In contrast to the 20th-century discourse, the binary classification of spaces as public-private, collective-individual, night-day… do not correspond to the current reality. Nowadays, buildings are no longer isolated but part of a more extensive system that connects the micro and macro impacting larger spheres such as the political, economic, and environmental realm. From this context, “Habitable Core” explores issues of elevators in affordable housing in NYC through an infrastructural intervention responding to the contemporary condition of the grand interior. Affordable houses are often neglected, leading to a lack of collective facilities, inadequate infrastructure, limited natural light/ventilation, overcrowding, etc. Vertical circulation is one of the main issues: Larger-scale affordable houses usually have insufficient/inefficient elevators, and smaller scale ones do not have elevators at all. THE LACK OF A SHARED SPACE IN AFFORDABLE HOUSES DISCOUR AGES NE IGHBORLY INTE R AC TIONS AND ENCOURAGES TENANTS TO BE IN THEIR OWN SELF-CONTAINED TERRITORY — EVANS, 1978. The infrastructure system aims to redefine the meaning of core. The core is in part essential to the structure of a building but also to the organization and interaction of people. The circulation core arranges the layout, sequence, and distribution of spaces, which consequently dictates the occupant’s everyday life.
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This abstract machine can “parasite” on various sites to stabilize, connect, and strengthen communities in affordable housing.
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The superstructure intervention generates new habitable public spaces as an extension of domesticity. The addition of new spaces is a manipulation of the shape and measurement of different staircases that create extrusions that contract and expand, absorbing, and dialoguing to various information of the city such as proximities, views, and noise.
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The video portraits the daily life and the atmosphere in affordable houses in New York City. The first scenes contrast with the intervention that attempts to respond to this reality by adding a livable public space for the inhabitants.
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The 1:1 prototype explores construction and materiality. The tension steel cables become the structure that host surfaces and envelopes that suggest programmatic engagement.
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Adding a core to the skin of the building and allowing it to proliferate disrupts the typical vertical circulation. It also displaces “body and soul” (Evans, 1978) of the community, creates opportunities for habitable and programmable spaces, and provides privileged views of the city.
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COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE
INSTRUCTORS JOE HAND AMY HARRINGTON KATHERINE CHAN JONCE WALKER CIARAN SMYTH TA ERICKA SONG KATE MCNAMARA TEAM MARK-HENRY DECRAUSAZ SPENSER A. KRUT INEA JOMAIRA CUEVAS
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POPULOUS THEATER The Populous Theater is a primarily civic space that engages and acknowledges its environment and community. The concept emerges from a primary and secondary composition that creates a spectrum of heavy to light, new to old, and man-made to nature relating to the program, structure, and surface. The site is an industrial waterfront adjacent to Transmitter Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. As a resiliency strategy, the analysis of the 100-year floodplain led the group to set back the building with a berm, elevate 6’, and fortify its base through concrete structure. The project relandscapes the park paths, bringing them into the building’s entry and creating a connection through the block with non-conditioned lobby space.
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The all-electric building delivers a passive design taking advantage of the site’s specificity to maximize energy efficiency and provide a high-performing space in terms of energy and function.
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URBAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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SUNSET PARK BOTANICAL GARDEN Our study of Sunset Park led us to understand that the current neighborhood houses unideal living conditions, a landscape presently dominated by industry, truck traffic, air pollution, and lack of pedestrian access to the waterfront. Through developing community and educational spaces, we aim to improve the livelihood of the neighborhood. The research center we are developing is a new typology for a botanical garden that tests resilience to flooding and climate change, so we can study how our natural and urban systems respond. The garden will mitigate stormwater, enhance air quality, and add tremendous value to real estate to Sunset Park by displacing and redistributing current underused buildings.
Our botanical garden implements native and climate-resilient flora to research its potentials to improve the site’s conditions. The planting strategy has four zones.
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Believing bringing nature to this industrial zone is the core of our redevelopment plan, we studied the size and composition of some botanical garden precedents. This comparison, along with the FAR study, allowed us to redefine the boundary of our intervention.
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The greenery extends primarily from the BQE to the waterfront, providing new pedestrian green accesses from a cleaner and greener BQE now as a visual landmark. Besides being a new recreational destination next to the existing industrial city, the garden assists with flood resistances and brings real estate value to the adjacent blocks.
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GSAPP SPRING 2021 TRANSITIONAL GEOMETRIES
TILING AND MODULAR FABRICATION
INSTRUCTOR JOSH JORDAN
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TWISTED TOWERS In the spirit of investigating tiling and modular fabrications, twisting towers explore the organizational, experiential, and aesthetic performance of three units and repetition in architectural compositionacross different scales and perspectives. The project consists of two-part mold-making and casting glycerin requiring consideration of efficiencies and economies of modular fabrication.
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GSAPP SPRING 2021 SECTION AS ANALYTICAL AND DESIGN TOOL
DOMESTIC INEQUALITIES THROUGH THE CUT
INSTRUCTOR MARC TSURUMAKI
EPISODES FROM SECTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS The project aims to raise broader questions regarding the section as a representational techniques that mediates the complex interrelationship between delineation, ideation, and materialization. Episodes from Sectional Photographs seek to understand the way sections operate as a representational device to reveal as well as conceal social-political issues of domestic labor in Casa Butantã (1964) by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, São Paulo. The modernist house is represented through three episodes that reveal the house’s horizontal organization — a central bedroom core between two habitable corridors — and the vertical organization — the family’s living space stacked on the “maid’s quarter.” The series of cross-sections emphasize the concrete structure that lifts the main volume above ground and cantilevers the balcony-corridors on both sides. While the building’s depth responds to the sun shading needs, the skylights provide light to the bedrooms. Furthermore, by representing the sections as hybrid — line and photos — it merges concepts of memory and nostalgia to spatiality, exposing inequalities in the domestic sphere.
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GSAPP SPRING 2020 MATERIAL THINGS
THINKING THROUGH MAKING
INSTRUCTOR JOSH JORDAN TEACHING ASSISTANT ANOUSHAE EIRABIE
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ECCENTRIC ARTIFACTS These artifacts relates to our necessary attachment to materials and material things as designers, and a refers to the productive cultural institutions that emerge around the act of making.
S.CONE: MIXED PRIMITIVES
Made of high-density foam scraps found in the shop, the pieces were cut and assembled into a custom stock block for more efficiency in time and material. The mixed primitives are composed of a sphere with 6 cones radiating from the center to create a new composite. The final coating conceals the ways to the mean, alluding to a heavy artifact.
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ELASTIC HUG: JOINT
Starting with Frascari’s proposition that “any architecture element defined as the detail is always a joint.” From there, we open the joint to questions of craft, process, materiality, and critique. The proposed joint system achieves a physical and formal connection between two components: one static and one elastic. The wood elements’ geometry nest on each other while the hidden hardware allows the joint to lock in place. 164
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GSAPP FALL 2019 TECHNIQUES OF THE ULTRAREAL
PILGRIMAGE
RENDERING AS A DESIGN TOOL
Pilgrimage focuses on techniques of color, light, material, context, reflection, and opacity to create a meditative experience through three scales: Environment, mid-view, and detail.
INSTRUCTOR JOSEPH BRENNAN PHILLIP CRUPI
THE JOURNEY Exploration creating landscapes and morning lighting employing onepoint perspective and rule of thirds to pull in the viewer from the landscape into the building.
TEACHING ASSISTANT SUJIN LEE TEAM JIAZHEN LIN
THE CONTEMPLATION Investigation of symmetry and interior lighting as a strategy to enhance the materiality and shape of the building. THE ENCOUNTER Employment of soft lighting to enhance form of the building in addition to exploration of reflection, refraction, and steam.
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LEFT: THE CONTEMPLATION RIGHT: THE ENCOUNTER
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GSAPP FALL 2018
METHODS OF REPRESENTATION
PLAYFUL NOSTALGIA
LUDIC EXPLORATIONS
Playful Nostalgia investigates Lina Bo Bardi’s ludic intentions in designing SESC Pompeia in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It consists of two parts exploring a specific form of representation: model and projection.
INSTRUCTOR DANIL NAGY
The model traces the circulation of the two towers connected by the bridges. It allows a marble to simulate people’s movement through the building. The process alternates between digital and analog, and it maintains the resin supports to emphasize the concept of the roller-coaster.
TEACHING ASSISTANT JULIA GIELEN
RHINO 3D MODELING
The projection brings forward the structure that allows for open space. In addition, the furniture becomes a suggestion for unprescribed interactions in this open ground for playfulness.
FORMLAB 3D PRINT CLIPPING
MACHINE ANALOG
REDUCE SUPPORTS TRACING BASE OF RESIN RHINO CAM SETTINGS FOR CNC CNC CARVE WOOD BASE SPINDLE SANDER ADJUSTMENT OF CARVED AREA
TRACING CARVED AREA LASER-CUTTING WOOD PIECE TO FOCUS LIGHT
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