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CONTENTS Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 3
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Exercise 1 “Form and Making�
In this exercise, I was able to experiment with planar, linear, and volumetric elements. I designed my first cube using these different elements and applied a formal operation, twist, to discover multiple ways the operation can operate.
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Exercise 2
“Elements and Operations of Form� In exercise 2, I continued to test different ways my formal operation, twist, could function and combined linear, planar, and volumentric elements.
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Exercise 3
“Scale, Movement and Context�
Exercise 3 focused primarily on the application of what I learned in the previous exercises and applying them to buildings. Starting from an existing building, we expanded scale, movement, and context into our own models.
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Exercise 4 “Case Study Analysis�
Exercise 4 primarily focused on how we were able to interpret an existing structure and analyze it into our own diagrams, showing unique and different understandings.
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Exercise 5
For the final exercise of the semester, we were given the task to create a building with the purpose of displaying some type of medium and also having public and private spaces. By doing so, we are able to understand and differenciate spaces on a larger scale.
“A Public-Private Studio�
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“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” -Winston Churchill
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