Mid-term Update: Representation

So Things have been busy. Hoped to get to this more often, but I haven't. for our representation class we have been working in axon and diagramming. So far it isn't anything amazing but it's here. Studio work to follow.

This is an exploded axon of Mya Lin's Ecliptic, the same park as drawn in section in my first post way back when. Done in AutoCAD.

This was a quick diagramming of the chairs in the local Cafe, the ChauHaus (I hate architectural humor) I was thinking a bit about how chairs act as focusing agents, creating walls (the seat backs) and directed visions for the individual user. Mapping the direction of focus of each chair (based on pictures taken from a balcony above the cafe space) shows the interactions between men (blue) and women (pink), as well as the potential interactions of the empty chairs (white). Done in Illustrator.

First work at 48 Quincy street

The first week here was all about teaching the class the basics of hand and digital drafting, of the concepts of plan and section drawings, of scale, and of realizing this is going to be a lot of work over the next three years. The first project was to take a landscape given to us and draw a hand drafted and digital plan, and digital sections. While not particularly exciting, and nothing new to me due to the past work I've done at Minnesota, I was pretty happy with the results of only 5 hours of Photoshop collaging my sections of Maya Lin's Ecliptic park. http://www.mayalin.com/