Linear Gallery| Abstraction, Exploration + Design

Process

 

Plan

 

Model

 

Interior

Exercise 10| Logo/Iteration

In this exploration of logo concepts for the Linear Gallery, most of my attempts focused on using type to generate a logo or iconic image. Many of the logos represent the idea of "line-art" or linear graphics as a driver for the design. The last row references the 3-d volume of the space in an attempt at at logo, but after these resulted in unsatisfactory results, I went back to thinking about the space conceptually and in abstract 2D form, as seen in the second to last row which uses a five bay abstraction as the genesis. 

Digital Fabrication Output

Digital Fabrication

Surface and Light

In this exercise, I explored creating an inverse translation of a perforated texture from a chair and a ceiling space from Knight Hall from a photo to a digital model. The models were explored using two different techniques; one which was inversely abstract, and the other attempted to create a form from a perspective in the oblique. The perforated texture/pattern inspired space model was more fruitful and provided a variety of primary, secondary, and tertiary spaces, using similar components.  The model uses a translation of a curved surface curved in 2-3 directions from lofting 2 segments, and took the inverse role of the "hole" in a perforated pattern, where as the "holes became the solid figures in the space.
After studying the various lighting techniques, a shift in material was initiated to use more reflective properties of light, and less light sources to achieve the attempted goal.

 

Knight Hall

 

Chair Perforation Pattern

B/W Translation

View 1a | natural light studies

 View 2a | natural light studies

View 1b | natural light studies

View 2b | natural light studies

View 3 | artificial light studies

View 4 | artificial light studies

 View 5 | hybrid light studies

View 6 | hybrid light studies

Exercise 7.5 Page, Spread, Layout

Portfolio Layout Sample Template

Exercise 7 | Architectural Bay Study

In this architectural bay study of the Linear Gallery, I analyzed the proportion of the bay unit and its relationship to the placement of the the main gallery.