A Shear Moment

When Drawing The Objects...

they were initially as abstracted as little as possible. Every detail was translated into a drawing to resemble as closely as possisble to the original objects. This was to attempt to generate form from the context alone, which in this case was the image of the whale originally used to create the model with assorted plastic objects. From there the objects were cut into plans and sections to reveal spaces that would house the program of a college campus. Where objects were too small, multiple objects were unified to create large enough space to house programs. Other times objects were used as projection lines to inform decisions for furniture and partition walls. This created organic feeling spaces that often resembled the internal organ of occupying the whale carcass. The normal conventions of architecture had to be unlearnt as instinctively it was very difficult to let go and not influence the design with ideas of circualtion, space, and pre-existing rule sets. Instead we use the model as a type of analog form generator to see if we can create architecture from context alone.

Architecture begins...

as early as putting objects together in a way where gravity must be considered. At a primitive level our brain instinctually consider structure and identifies strategies for how to make objects support themselves individually or collectively. As the project progressed and evolved, architectural decisions had to be made to make abstractions within the spaces created by the objects. So is the context of something as simple as a narrative with an image depicting it enough to produce an alibi for design? This project claims forms can be generated from a model that began as something more of an art peice that exists strictly within the context of itself. As times goes on, conventions become stale and can become hinderence to new ideas. This project is a thought excercise to create a dicussion for trying different things to see new results in design. The newest trend of using AI to generate design is increasingly popular and valid tool for moving on from an architectural rut we are facing However it is not the only way to generate new designs. We can think of the process in this project as an analog way of creating objects by reconstructing image. The image could play a role similar to a parameter in AI scripts. Either way it seems like as human beings whether its through AI or manually crafting a model to generate form, it appears as a species we are seeking for osmething ne and somethign refreshing and that begins with expanding the mind on how we think.