design portfolio Sasha J Dalla Costa
core design I
the idea in believing architecture is the understanding of what we knew the day before, how to make today new, only to be different tomorrow as well. The following pages are to show how each day can be different. a compilation of work over the course of 3 semesters to the inevitable change in the idea of ‘what is’ and the attempt to find out what it can be….
Hawanisai
to break the rules, you must truly understand them…
perry
design devices
kara
core design III
cooke
core design II
路
core design i hanwisai 路 2009
boundary |edge
1 week
Guided by the ideas of holistic and visual recognition, we explore the idea of space and graphic understanding, the importance and beauty of the positive and negative space. We approach the idea of space but emphasizing visual cues. negative |positive figure | ground solid | void boundary |edge implicit explicit closure continuity similarity proximity allignment
space & order
2 weeks
Nature of the form Space and form Negative| positive Void| solid Type| size Relationship Axis Unity Proportion Balance
construct 1 week
The forces of the earth are far more powerful than we could ever begin imagine or understand. Structure being nature, nature surrounding structure, the reality that we want, what we cannot control.
the light project The need to be guided by the light, that a space with nothing else but you and the light can spark worlds of emotion. Journey Solitude Anticipation Transformation Hope Spiritual darkness light
....it puts us in touch with the eternal...
kahn
2 weeks
...Among the first habits that a young architect should learn; is that of thinking in shadow, not looking for design. In its miserable skeleton; but conceiving it as it will be when that damn lights it and the dusk leaves it.... john ruskin
design i final
|memory and eden|3 weeks
metamorphosis | germination through the process of making, the object creates itself‌ever changing‌ ever growing...
Creating a place of beauty, celebration and understandings. A place to educate one self and celebrate what has been done and what is to come. To create a place where of tolerance and education mix with celebration, honor and the adoration of the beauties of nature.
‌Through ever good building one can see the life of who built them, almost as if the human parts had been imbedded in their construction, as if one could find shreds on people in the building. As a complex organization, an interesting building always has an interesting epic, a story that is embedded in the organization of matter‌
core design ii cooke 路 2010
the corner 2 weeks inside | outside ground | floor ground | wall floor | wall structure skin joint material
` the linking of the ground and the sky. I have long been interested in the coming together and accepting what happens all around up. Too often is the in between rejected in favor of the more obvious. Not only playing the in between, but the light that happens within it.
ground-space and ceiling scape
2 weeks
understanding the in between...
THE WALL
2 WEEKS
‌At the core of architectural creation, the transformation of the concreteness of the real, through transparent logic pervades the design process. The result is clarity of structure or special order – apparent not only to perception, but also to reason. A transparent logic that permeates the whole transcends surface, beauty or mere geometry with its intrinsic importance‌ tadao ando
‌a linkage between, the space of human beings and eve thing that remains outside it, it transcends the separation between the inner and outer‌the door speaks it is absolutely essential for humanity that is set itself boundary, but with freedom, that is, in such a way that it can also remove this boundary again, that is can place itself outside it‌ neill leach
door-window
2 weeks
...A violation of the wall‌as a place within the in between, her, there and beyond‌
Breaking apart the elements of architecture to better study and understand our craft, we are set to design a space for someone who is constantly trying to master their craft. I was inspired by the idea of music for my violin markers work shop, the idea of movement in all forms has long inspired me ; movement of light, spaces through spaces, people through spaces. Like a song I tried to create moments of destination and reward‌ different moods for different melodies. ‌the human mind cannot take in three dimensions all at once, it is a cumulative experience, you gather snap shots, many, many different images from different angles in space‌
a place for craft and music
design ii final 4 weeks
core design iii kara 路 2010
skin | bone 1 week
memory map
1 week
An exercise to understand your site, not though pictures or maps, but through what you remember. Highs Lows Shadows Impacts
boathouse | pools
8 weeks
To create a boat house to store punting boats, a place of gathering for practice and social events. Pools are designed as a place for the community to come and gather, because our site was so man I wanted to carve and raise the earth, creating different moments along the way.
...you should never need to speak for your work... it should speak for itself....
‌ love your experiment (as you would an ugly child). Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trial and errors. Take the long way to view and allow yourself the fun of failure everyday‌ Bruce Mau
design II final
| cabinet of curiosities |4 weeks
A series of life experiences, taking a poetic and conceptual take on a project based on the highline park in New York City. Consider urban texture and syntax, volumetric definition and internal program.
A collection of worldly treasures, from natural history, archeology, paintings, architecture, antiques to even human abnormalities. To create a place of curiosities, I created a space that could be a curiosity of itself. With hidden rooms, and passages the witness can explore their way through the museum finding places of varying light, privacy and curiosities.
Everyone has their unique design ideas, this cannot be taught, it can only be nurtured through the exploration of creative thought and process to the practice, and the understanding of why we want to create and why we find the need to design. It is transforming something created by the imagination to something physical. Designers work on the art of changing dreams into reality. Practical designs can affect the way we see things, or give a new prospective. To create thought, emotion, take risk in a way that is simply and sustainable, will help to make our design will be successful.
design devices
4 weeks
I started wanting the form to control me, tell me what needed to be done to it. The use of zip ties as a tool, could allowed me a level of control, while allowing whatever is to be held freedo to move to create its own form.
no tool is worth anything without the hands that control it
‌ I prefer drawing to talking, drawing it faster and leaves less room for lies‌ Le Corbusier