Make + Material Things

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Design Elective - Ada Tolla & Guiseppe Lignano Design Elective - Joshua Jordan

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MAKE: CONSTRUCTING GESTURES I am driven by touch. Crafting physical work, thinking through medium, tweaking, refining, and creating a physical presence can speak directly to our senses, and at the same time stimulate a mental process. The communication may be confused, the message may be lost, meanings may be invented, but regardless, a physical presence is hard to ignore.

Each piece created in MAKE is the result of a two week long conversation with an isolated material and nothing else. My obsessions revolved around fine tuning materials to a precise moment of tension. Metal wire is about to spring apart. Soil is just wet enough to hold. Glass bulbs lean rest in delicate equilibrium. Yet what these constructions are not the result of an expressive impulse. Making physical work requires buying materials, planning transportation, and setting aside time, space, and equipment.

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Charles Vincent Thornton

Columbia GSAPP

Design Elective - Ada Tolla & Guiseppe Lignano

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Columbia GSAPP

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Charles Vincent Thornton

Columbia GSAPP

Design Elective - Ada Tolla & Guiseppe Lignano

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Charles Vincent Thornton

Columbia GSAPP

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Columbia GSAPP

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Columbia GSAPP

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Columbia GSAPP

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Columbia GSAPP

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MATERIAL THINGS: TWIST TENON Architectural discourse has a long history of fetishizing questions of part-to-whole and material truth. How have these discussions changed with the advent of digital fabrication?

Now that we are entering the afterglow of a period obsessed with hyper-parametric ornamentation, more difficult questions about how we make use of our these tools have gained precedence. This project began with the simple assignment of joining two or more parts, and gained complexity through the application of 4-axis milling capabilities, and inspiration from Greg Lynn’s concept of intricacy. What began as a simple mortise-and tenon joint, designed to fit the scale of the hand, quickly evolved into a generative spatial system of its own.

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Charles Vincent Thornton

Columbia GSAPP

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