Steel Competition

Exploration Results

Love your experiments

Love your experiments

Photo of luna and study model

With this study model I was studying how to fabricate an organic shape like a sphere with the waffle technique, this technique allows for the cardboard to hold its shape without any help of glue. The result of this study was successful on how the cardboard holds its shape, unfortunately the guest client (luna) didn’t seem to be so interested in interacting with this model. By putting a treat in the inside of the model, Luna took advantage of the size of the gridded openings and inserted her paws inside to get to the treat. A cavity was later implemented to see if Luna would like to go inside the model, but she wasn’t interested in being inside. With this study in mind I understand that cats may prefer the stacking method used in a previous model, like the Wiggle chair by Frank Gery.

Laugh

Laugh. People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I’ve become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.

Note: Taken from “Incomplete Manifesto for Growth” by Bruce Mau

I leave you with a video of Maru sliding into boxes.

Concept Study

Concept Study

Throughout my investigation on similarities of play in humans and cats, I found a common item…boxes.

Joy ride: Two children playing with a cardboard box on the alley way of a market in Kolkata on Sunday.– PHOTO: Reuters

Maru playing with box

This is Maru the cat and he is well known in the internet for playing with boxes. His owner has post many videos of him playing on her Youtube chanel Mugumogu.

The curiosity of cats is big, especially when it comes to boxes. Cats like to scratch, climb, slide, sleep, and these are a way of play for them.

Listen carefully

Listen carefully

Note from Geri Strecker at my first presentation

List of preposition:

In the book “Horizontal Skyscraper” by Steven Holl Architects, Steven Holl writes about the four types of architecture are under the ground, in the ground, on the ground and over the ground; witch are also the four principal prepositions. Steven Holl Architects developed a correlation matrix using these prepositions, as shown in the image, to develop ideas for a new building.

Matrix study from Steven Holl Architects

In my case, I took the primary relations and developed a gridded form that would indicate the space that prepositions are best represented.

Note: the initial grid is the first development of a massing model, in a front view, for my cat/human playground.

Matrix study for cat/human playground 

Make new words

Make new words

Meaning of the word Koyaanisqatsi

Koyaanisqatsi is a film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass, inspired me to draw these images. The film shows a relationship between natural structures, like mountains, and the way cities are formed. People are shown in clusters, going into a fast pace work and then they slow down to appreciate what is around them. The director also compares the way machine and cities work, and how they are not so different. The meaning of the word Koyaanisqatsi is reflected on this film with no words.

Picture 1

11”x8 ½” Ivory Cardstock, colored with pastels.

Cities

Nature is a calm space, later chaos and darkness come, and machinery turns nature into cities.

Picture 2

11”x8 ½” Cardstock, colored with acrylic and black sharpie.

The skyscraper

A skyscraper reflects clouds moving slowly through the sky, but inside the skyscraper, a machine of people move with purpose.  

Note: I haven’t drawn in a while and this served as a transition to start drawing for this project.