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Drip

Morgannale

Lee Tomolonis

ARCH 305 - Spring 2024

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Professors Ramos & Paca

TA Ebram Victoria

Drip

ARCH 305

Course Description

This course covers the cultural, social, and psychological factors of human behavior that must be taken into consideration when designing the environment. This includes considering the characteristics, causes, and consequences of acts, meanings, participation, relationships, and settings; plus the forms they assume and variations they display. Theories and methods of environmental assessment and design are studied based on an understanding of mutually supportive relationships between people and their physical environments.

observer

PTOP

What social, cultural, physiological, or psychological factors, in part, define the way you think and act as a designer and individual? What is your philosophy for listening and sharing appropriately as a designer and individual? What are the intangible aspects associated with “belonging” and how do you create spaces that are sensitive to inclusion? In what ways do you want to challenge the profession to instill social justice throughout design on all levels? What is your core? -ARCH 305 Syllabus

Limit a point or level beyond which something does not or may not extend or pass

Boundary

a line that marks the limits of an area; a dividing line

Define mark out the boundary or limits of

Filter

Filter

Lens

Lens

Lt

Environment

Values

Method

Foundations

Design

of Intangible Elements

myPTOP

Personal Theory of Practice

I respond to the user and the environment, each specific to their own locality and character, filtered through my aesthetic and values of sustainability, practicality, and a connection to nature.

-Lee Tomolonis

Overlap

Ani Difranco

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.”

Process

Process

INTD 302

The 3rd year interior design studio’s first project of the semester was to redesign the interior space of the dean’s office to accommodate the growing needs & wants of the staff. Through a series of interviews with the faculty, including Dean Asojo, interesting lights have been requested to be featured as part of the redesign to draw in more visitors and enliven the space. This revelation sparked a creative exploration into the power of illumination to captivate, invigorate, and inspire.

Isolated Interior Elevation of Private Offices West

Human Behavior Study

The

participant sat at a desk with a computer altered by a remote hourly for a 3-hour period.

The participant was sluggish and described being unproductive & related a feeling of scattered and indecisiveness.

This was described lighting, characterized sterile office lighting. qualities of this light, was the most productive expressed feelings similar overly caffeinated. The not ingest any caffeine.

computer and paper notes. The bulb's hue was

period.

as the 'worst' characterized as clinical and lighting. Despite the poor light, the participant productive and similar to being The participant did caffeine.

The participant described the quality of light as their favorite and described being adequately productive. The light felt comfortable and relaxing, but not sleep-inducing.

Internal Validity

The change in lighting directly affected the participant’s mood, energy levels, and productivity

“If I had spent an entire day like that, even though I would have gotten

External Validity

that, I would have been burnt out gotten a lot accomplished.”

Lighting quality directly affects the user’s moods, productivity levels, and perceptions. How one perceives the quality of light may alter their reactions. The clinical lights may not be perceived as ‘comfortable’ or ‘welcoming’ but resulted in high productivity. The participant stated, They perceived the light in ways that directly affected their performance. Was this a result of the light or how the light was perceived?

Sticks

is a theme I have explored before, and I find myself attracted to the chaos of sticks in a pile, collected twigs in a birdnest, or the heap of sticks & debris that collect in front of trees near bodies of water after a storm.

Sticks

Drip is the theme I have chosen to develop further. Inspired by water, these undulating curves soften what could be interpreted as stalactites. When staggered and uniquely shaped, the groupings drip from the ceiling above to produce a living body of work.

Drip

Topo is inspired by the titular name. I may be too immersed in a grading & drainage course, but I am inspired by the curvature of land and the contour lines throughout.

refine

digital model

In Situ

physical model

Model

Photo by Michael

Michael Chen on Unsplash

Robert Irwin

“In the working process at first there are just a lot of feelings and ideas strew about, pieces and parts. At some point in the process you begin to gain a vantage of an overview-a compelling sense of a whole, out of which a strategy emerges in which all of the pieces and parts will eventually gravitate. And then you begin the arduous task of disciplining them. Filtering each part and piece through your aesthetic sensibilities and in the light of the whole, adding nothing in and leaving nothing out.”

Overlap

Thank you!

Ani Difranco

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.”