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 clarif...

"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...