ARCHITECTURE T U D E S HEATHER KIMBRELL Undergraduate Sophomore Portfolio 2016-2017 | Clemson University
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LEARNING FROM HEJDUK Studying Wall House II as a precedent to find the meaning behind Hejduk’s design
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LEARNING FROM HEJDUK Reverse engineering in the design process This precedent study was assigned as a way to familiarize my studio with famous architects and some of their house designs. Assigned to me at random, the long project span began with a scaled model of the Wall House II and its corresponding orthographic drawings. From here, it progressed into understandanding solid/void/in-between space relationships, looking at paths and circulation, analyzing a joint-in this case, the wall and 6 columns that work to connect and join rooms- and finally pulling from all of these ideas, a parti.
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solid, void, and in-between spaces, modeled
the study, modeled
analogue orthographic draft of wall house ii
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analogue section to demonstrate joints
analogue ink drawing on mylar for a perspective light illustration
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METHODOLOGY OF CARVING A product of using shapes to carve shapes
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METHODOLOGY OF CARVING Cutting through material with shapes to reveal new ones Boolean operations became the focal point of this exercise. By using a cube as a block of “cheese�, so to speak, other shapes can be used to carve into the cheese and leave a new material after subtraction. My test with booleans began through many small sketches to imagine what the resultant cube would be after it was carved with specific shapes. To begin the model making process, I constructed three wireframe cubes demonstrating carvings through all faces with 4 or more shapes. I picked one wireframe design to model the boolean operation with in museum board.
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study wireframe models with boolean operations
final wireframe model
carved museum board model
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analogue drawing to reshape model with new boolean transformations
interior effects of light
museum board model of boolean | bottom view
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IMPASTABLE ACQUIRING STRUCTURE A study exercising ruled surface techniques with Gaining a simple folded plate technique uniquestructure model with materials
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folded plates with slight pattern differences
ACQUIRING STRUCTURE Finding ways to transform flat paper into 3-D structural forms THREE STUDIES I was first introduced to a basic folding plate pattern that became the backbone for my three formats for folding. I researched Erik Demaine and learned from his circle templates how to fold curves. A simple “donut” template yielded a model that twists inward on itself. I adjusted the scale between circles to make two different modles with curved creases. As an effort to save paper in the process, I used excess “donut holes” to study new dimensions of the folded plate patterns. By shifting dimensions, I came up with 6 iterations of the folded plate. Inverting the circular plates created an interesting texture. I took the inverted plate from my second iteration, tripled the pattern, and formed a unique paper column with this experiment.
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circular template for curved crease model
two iterations of curved crease folding
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20 sketches showing how excess paper is used to dictate new folding study
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Pictured above is the template utilizing the second of my six iterations three times consecutively. When put adjacently, the column at the left may be created with folds.
paper ‘column’ made with multiplication of pattern B
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IMPASTABLE A study exercising ruled surface techniques with unique model materials
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looking ahead to all the pastabilities
IMPASTABLE Re-imagining Ruled Surfaces with Pasta Ruled surfaces introduced the idea of building curvature with lines. I began a series of drawings with one shape which I then morphed by changing one variable, such as linear boundaries, curved boundaries, rotating angles, gradience in line density, and the dance between mixing curved boundaries with straight ones. I translated small sketches into three inked large ones and used my final drawing as a guideline for constructing my model. After using a cheap medium, pasta, to understand ruled surfaces in study models, I began working pasta at a higher density to translate the drawing into a model. I pulled the boundaries for my model, two major “L� shapes turned away from each other. I densely laid fettuccine pasta to utilize it’s flat surface in the building process. It led to a great discovery of how the proportions of the fettuccine force a beautiful density as the pasta turns and fans out at one end. The model appears to glow due to the fanning out of its density and appealing curves, which make fettuccine read as a beautiful material for modeling.
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angel hair pasta study models
analogue 2-D ruled surface ink drawings to think with
fettuccine+ruled surface
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PASTA VILLA Taking pasta to a new level of living
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PASTA VILLA Reimagining Ruled Surfaces with Pasta After using pasta as a medium to translate ruled surfaces as curves, I took pasta to the next level to create a structure on top of a site constructed out of cork sheets. The site was made first, and using 96 layers of cork with 544 pieces total lead to challenges with building. An “egg crate� structure stands beneath the cork to support it from below with insulation foam. My design was developed with the idea of three pieces pulling away from each other. They can be walked through, walked around, or expierienced by lounging or sitting. Between the three pieces lies a path which can be viewed from above in my analogue drawing. Pasta, again, helped to bring life to the design with its appeal under light. Though fragile at first, multitides of layers of pasta gave rigidity and strength to all three pieces.
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sketch of topography construction | insulation board+cork
analogue process diagram | top view
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analogue+digital drawing | top view of final
framing the sky and path by breaking apart | east elevation
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CONTACT: HEATHER KIMBRELL
Undergraduate Sophomore Portfolio 2016-2017 | Clemson University hlkimbr@clemson.edu 843.619.1243
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