First Year Portfolio

Vy Le First Year Portfolio Virginia Tech

Grids 1-6 Textiles 7-14 Subtraction 15-24 Competition 25-28 Contents

Grids 2D

Using the environment around us, grids were pulled out to focus on: geometry, structure, and function.

The focus is on representation, the systems of abstraction, instrumentality, and imagination. Thus, we explore how the representaion of grids and geometry as 2D with undertones of 3D

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Hand-drawn Grid Drawing

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Rhino Grid Drawing

Grids 3D

Continuing with the 2D grids, we begin to extrude 7”. Explorations will look at geometric properties and phenomeological qualities, such as light and materiality. This helps build an understanding for scale and compositon.

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Rhino 3D Model

Top: Front View

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Bottom: Bottom View

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Textiles 2D …

First Iteration 7

Grid

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Smocking

Designs

Final Iteration 9

Detail Photos

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Textiles 3D

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Subtraction 1

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First Row: Shadow Photo, Axon Second Row: Top View, Section View

Subtraction 2

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Section Cuts

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Subtraction 3: Model

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Subtraction 3: Graphics

Top: Process Graphic

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Right: Experiences Graphic

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First Year Competition

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