BLOG101: Basic Design in Blogging

Given: Opaque surface materials: 1mm cardboard or corrugated cardboard Translucent surface materials: wire mesh, translucent acetate paper Stick materials: wooden sticks, metal wire Design a total number of seventeen interrelated volumes with varying qualities (scale, proposition, surface qualities, material, permeability, accessibility, level of illumination etc.) You need to follow some rules while designing: You are required to use one single cardboard element as a continuous surface that folds and bends throughout the design. In addition to the cardboard, you are required to select and use at least three materials from the list. You are allowed to use the elements made out of these materials in any size, number and shape. Your design needs to occupy a total volume of approximately 60.000  cm 3 . Your design should have excellent workmanship and stability. Requirements: Your model Posters that express your design ideas and concepts Partial models that clarify yo

"Three related voids" from our faculty building. Sketching! In the first photo, let's take the corridor as the first void, the garden as the second, studio A as the third and studio B as the fourth. Volumes can be in related with them by the "flow of air" between them. But that's not the only method for them to be in relation with each other. The surfaces which enclosure the garden is transparent, so there is a visual continuity between the garden and the corridor. That is one other way of getting relation with each other. With the windows on studio A and studio B, the visual continuity of garden continues in these volumes too. But also studios are opening through the corridor, so with the help of flow of air in that connection, studios and the corridor connecting them are also in related with each other. The corridor plays the role of "connector" in this photo. By the meanings of its characteristics, it is the most undefined volume be

My final project is ready and I've finished designing the posters this morning. It was a sleepless week and after the jury I know I'll be sleeping for straight 4 days or something.... Process of poster design. It is time. My first jury ever. I remember my times in highschool studying for the YGS/LYS. Back then I swear, I wasn't stressed out THAT much. But it is not the time for fear and hopeless thoughts. Okay, I'm ready for the jury adventure! Sad but that was the summary of my jury. Anyway, in architectural education you can learn from every mistake you've made and every critic you've got will lead you to another path of exploring this wonderful world. That is the case for me everyday. My turn in the jury was funny I think. I've had fun. Also it felt amazing to go there and present your design from your very first starting point to what you've put on the table. There is still much to learn, but presentating a job may be the coolest part o

Okay, this will be our first mid-term jury assignment. Meanwhile, my parents are in town because of the loss of my grandfather. In the previous blog entry, I tried to show my progress of how did I achieve my ideas for the design. This week, I'll start working on this idea because I've got some good critics about my ideas. A sketch of my design idea. Working with these materials in such way is really hard for me. I still can't get along with such kind of things. My only issue is my workmanship in the design from now on. From one side, To other side. Okay, there is two main problems that I've got. First one is, my workmanship is too bad, I have to start again and finish clearly. The other one is, the design is looking like a chaotic Picasso scene. I have to work on the prisms to destroy that look.