Final Maps

Our final critique for the mapping of the Igualada cemetery was yesterday. Professor Andrew Thurlow took time out of his sabbatical to reign supreme over our group for the evening. Here are some pictures of my final Axonometric and Sectional drawings and the layout of my presentation. To clarify, my project was a focus on the staircase that runs through the 2 levels of interment chambers, a sort of walk through the valley of death, as it were. Quite powerful.

the actual hand-drawings

everything laid out

Drawings Without Paper

A drawing of my "moment" made of out bent pieces of wire:

Lo' and Behold

After all the fiasco with various school staff, Caiti and I were finally able to get our plaster casts poured last Friday. Well, in the freezing rain amidst all the heat we were taking, I was able to get mine poured but it cured too fast for her to get to it as well. But the mess was there and after some spiteful cleaning using chunks of ice, we were done and done.

a similar perspective to the drawdel

success!

Look - It's a Drawing! No, it's a Model!...

Actually it's a DRAWDEL, a model of a drawing - or a drawing of a model, I don't know the details are kinda hazy...

This is a section of the Cemetery in Igualada, Spain. It is a staircase which penetrates through two levels of burial chambers of sorts, where human remains are interred. It is an interesting concept to literally walk through death, so to speak, and be able to emerge back into the light...

Book Carving

In a nutshell, our first project in Studio 413 was to take a book we had received as a charitable "donation" from the library - I think they may have believed they were going to be returned - and cut into the book to reveal something about its contents.

My book was "HOUSE" by Tracy Kidder - coincidentally something I actually needed to read for another class. After hauling ass through its contents it went under the knife

The Book got divided into 5 sections, each a function of a typical House.

These sections were labeled TO EAT, TO SLEEP, TO THINK, LOVE, and LIVE.

Each Section, as you flip through is marked with a set of Abstracted shapes cut into the pages  marked with various colours.

These shapes on their own don't make much sense until you reach the end and each shape corresponds with a floor plan of the actual house described in the book, with colour-coded programmatic elements.

Intruiging

Unknown Bridge, Unknown Location:

Meanwhile in Oklahoma...

A lot like my last post, this is a similar proposal for a subterranean museum in a defunct mining-town in Oklahoma:

http://www.archdaily.com/198621/mine-plug-didactic-subterranean-architecture/#more-198621

Exhuming Central Park

I found this interesting article on ArchDaily:

http://www.archdaily.com/201710/excavating-wilderness-an-urban-subterranean-dialogue/

Since our studio is dealing with Architecture as an exhumation I feel like this establishes the idea very well. It is a project for a Natural History Museum in the middle of Central Park in New York City and would be very interesting to go visit, should it ever get built.