Post-tutorial notes
[28 November]
Despite viewing the drawings on my screen rather than printed out, this was a really good tutorial. Thanks Monia! (And thanks Fionnuala for showing a really nice and highly inspiring model - I'm very envious and frustrated that I haven't come even close to that level of thinking/modelling.)
First, the resulting post-tutorial sketch page:
Be hardcore.
That's the gist of the above. If we think about the corner as a Generative Corner, then we should allow ourselves to take that idea all the way.
What does this imply?
The corner sets everything off and ends everything.
The corners are the program.
We are interested in the spaces created by the corners, and with how the corners themselves are shaped, but we're not overly interested in the 'generic' surfaces spanning between the corners, that is, the 'life' of the structure.
Decide your aims: what is a good corner, what is a bad corner? Why?
The possibility of working with curves of different degree.
The corner may take up loads of space: more than half of the space can be just a corner.
The curve takes over.
The corner always shows us the scale - this is how we understand the program. Maybe you can stand inside of the corner.
I need to show where the start point and the end point of the corner is, always. Axo is probably the best way of doing this. [I'd like to make really clean hidden line drawings of this.]
Drawing 1: Good to always show the scale of the generative curve.
Drawing 2: Maybe work with piecemeal curves. High degree = dissolution (high smoothness). If we want to see the corner, go low!
Drawing 3: Should be axo. Mark the corners. New and implied. Openings happen when new corners are created. The corner erodes the volume.
Drawing 5:
A) Location of corners = program, B) New corners = openings (light, connections, circulation, entry...)
Do a 'Channel 4' test drawing showing piecemeal curves.
Parallellogram + cuts
'Open reflector' corner?
Extreme situation scenario!
Two-level model
Despite viewing the drawings on my screen rather than printed out, this was a really good tutorial. Thanks Monia! (And thanks Fionnuala for showing a really nice and highly inspiring model - I'm very envious and frustrated that I haven't come even close to that level of thinking/modelling.)
First, the resulting post-tutorial sketch page:
Be hardcore.
That's the gist of the above. If we think about the corner as a Generative Corner, then we should allow ourselves to take that idea all the way.
What does this imply?
The corner sets everything off and ends everything.
The corners are the program.
We are interested in the spaces created by the corners, and with how the corners themselves are shaped, but we're not overly interested in the 'generic' surfaces spanning between the corners, that is, the 'life' of the structure.
Decide your aims: what is a good corner, what is a bad corner? Why?
The possibility of working with curves of different degree.
The corner may take up loads of space: more than half of the space can be just a corner.
The curve takes over.
The corner always shows us the scale - this is how we understand the program. Maybe you can stand inside of the corner.
I need to show where the start point and the end point of the corner is, always. Axo is probably the best way of doing this. [I'd like to make really clean hidden line drawings of this.]
Drawing 1: Good to always show the scale of the generative curve.
Drawing 2: Maybe work with piecemeal curves. High degree = dissolution (high smoothness). If we want to see the corner, go low!
Drawing 3: Should be axo. Mark the corners. New and implied. Openings happen when new corners are created. The corner erodes the volume.
Drawing 5:
A) Location of corners = program, B) New corners = openings (light, connections, circulation, entry...)
Do a 'Channel 4' test drawing showing piecemeal curves.
Parallellogram + cuts
'Open reflector' corner?
Extreme situation scenario!
Two-level model
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