31 March 2010

Connection

After a few revisions of my idea (four, to be exact), I reached something that appeared to make sense. These rocks I've encountered were a bit expected, but where I've ended up, and how I move forward is something I'm quite proud of.

My final submission is a whole transformation from where I started. Originally looking at the new condition of the farm, and its current condition, and trying to document it's process and redefining it, I've shifted my focus to the whole idea of the family and farm life - and how they coincide with each other.
I first started out with the image of the lawn chair and old milk jug, and simplified the objects in the image to their simple geometries. From there, I derived lines, then skewed them all a bit so they began to interact with each other, much like the life on the farm. Starting to fill in the shapes with black, I started deriving interesting relational geometry. This step took me into Rhino, where I was, at first, stuck. I was too concerned with making it connect to buildings, like this huge volume of space, until I experimented with overlaying it on the site map.
Finally, the project began to define itself, as what I created began to graphically convey the message which had inspired me. What I saw was the shapes I derived from the picture was able to develop a personal and unique connection to and between all the pre-existing buildings on the site. What I had created was a site plan. In the model seen at the top of this image, I extruded the lines I created in my 2D process over the site, and used boolean difference to subtract where the form interacts with the original buildings of the site.

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