Complex Morphologies
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Design Studio, SCI-Arc Graduate Studies
2GAX Fall Semester, Year 1, 2015
Group (3) Academic project
Claudia Wainer, Hyosean Park, Nithya Subramaniam
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Instructor - Florencia Pita
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Proposed Site - Paris
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Scale - Media Archive
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Tools Used - Maya, Rhino, 3D Coat, ZBrush, 3dsMax, Processing, After Effects
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Paris is structured in a clear organisational and formal delineation, and at certain moments can appear visually monochromatic and formally repetitive. This project explores novel methods of addressing context as well as the integration of found forms (like the candy jar profile) to design conditions such as the architectural corner, geometry and color. The building unites and at the same time, breaks away with the adjacent buildings, creating a new icon to the surrounding context that maintains a subtle familiarity to its neighbors. Frayed edges produce the effect of transparency while graphic and tectonic seams provide a visual continuity from the interior to the exterior. By doing so it creates a dialogue with the adjacent buildings and the street. These striations that are projected from the surrounding context also help negotiate the vertical nature of the design and maintains a symbiotic nature between them.
//Mass generated from 3d coat using alpha images of the surrounding site.
These images are post processed using processing to create a series of interesting massing.
// Texture Maps developed by image processing and creating patterns from known forms and known colour pallets
// Using a similar process of manipulation, photographs of the surrounding context and color are used to create texture. It is used to further exaggerate the striations running through the mass and is enhanced by the deformation of these visual cues. Textures come from the process of image manipulation and pixel sampling. Grain and verticality are produced through the stretching of pixel and at times these pixels are maintained as clear graphic. The textures expose foreign and contextual data, and the combination provides a pattern the is subtle and stands out from the context. The pattern acquires a unique materiality that does not belong to traditional materials such as stone and glass, but exists as a graphic material mixer.
