the story

last week I was posed with the question, what is the story of my building? I felt lost and frustrated, because I did not know my story. the story was there, I just had to figure it out. The story dictates everything else. How my presentation is pieced together, what images, models, perspective I include. I began thinking of my story as penetration, how the location of my building fits into the site, how the the building penetrates the grid, and the relationship of how light enters my building. That did not seem right and then i thought perhaps "shifting" was my story, this explains the two main linear volumes of my building and how they insert themselves between the library and humanities building. Although my building does speak of shifting that is not my story. thinking back to my original design and my previous project i began to think of links that would tell the story of my building. these links dealt with continuity either spatially or in regard to materiality. how do these links connect back to the story of my addition. the addition is a translation or reinterpretation of the grid. the grid is the path of which my the form is generated from and the experience of moving through my building is dictated.

layered drawing

I found this image and thought it was an interesting and inspirational for the final presentation.

final presentation of drawings without paper

final tectonic drawing
final stereotomic drawing

For the sterotomic drawing, dealing with the plaster was challenging and though experimenting with the first two attempts I was able to produce a final third model that was more representative of the drawing I had chosen. Below is the model of which I used to cast.



The review was very informative and helpful in reading the drawings as models and forms that can be generative to our designs. Both the tectonic and stereotomic drawing address issues I was having difficult resolving in my design. Specifically the sterotomic drawing, it allowed me to represent the addative and subtraction elements that exist within my design.

Dibujos sin Papel

For the next part of our project, we are continuing development by investigating different ways of representation. This is done by "drawing without paper," taking the parameters of our two dimensional drawing that we have already created of our projects and represent them as three dimensional objects.

We have to create 2 drawings, one dealing with tectonic and one with stereotomic.

At the first attempt of the tectonic drawing, I choose a section drawing to represent, using wire to produce the forms as well as part of the edge of the paper.
















For my second attempt, I represented a axon drawing. With reference to Gego, I tried to use more solid wire to represent the ground line.


After these two attempts, I realized I needed to improve my wire bending skills to create more pristine bends as well as create more depth within my drawing. In a third attempt, incorporating elements from the two previous try's, a third was produce. Attempting to have it still read as a two dimensional image but as you move around the drawing the depth of the drawing is apparent.

stereotomic drawing

For the stereotomic drawing, the materiality consists of heavier pieces such as wood, plaster, wax, or cement. I choose to represent a plan drawing using casting gesture using plaster.

Below is the mold that I used for the first attempt

The results...






Second attempt...

model developmet

After the mid review, some of the suggestions was to keep exploring the form in model and incorporating my mapping project specifically the expressiveness of the form back into my project. Below are picture of that development.


1st model











Below are picture of the area underneath the ground plane
















2nd model