Idiosyncratic Worlds

Visual Studies

Fall 2022 VS 4120 ( 2GA ): Cultural Battle Grounds

Instructor: Marcelo Spina, James Piccone

AT: James Piccone

Partner: Kristen Anthony

In ‘Oblique Drawing’, Massimo Scolari examines “antiperspectival” visual representation over two thousand years, finding in the course of his investigation, that visual and conceptual representations and manifestations of the ideological and philosophical orientations of different cultures. These images prove to be not just a form of art but a form of thought, a projection of a way of life.

For a discipline of architecture deeply concerned with the real, however, only conceiving the conceptual aspects of projective geometry and avoiding alltogether the actual experience of the real same would mean not just a cultural constraint but also a social and political renouncement.

The first task of the semester was to remodel a precedent building. Ours was the Kadokawa Museum by Kengokuma Architects. Once remodeling we took our structure in grasshopper where we turned our object into a monolithic mass. We started creating textures and re-rendering the entire form of the building within substance 3D and VRay

Modeling Completed by Kristen Anthony and India Chand

We later further transformed these objects by applying double displacement to the objects by using a different grasshopper script as well as VRay and rendering them in Cinema 4D Octane.

Rendering Completed by India Chand