To the right you will find the presentation I will give on Monday. It is about the concept of folding in architecture. Folding is an idea and is more of a form generator than form actualized. You can download it to prepare for a giant leap on Monday. We will be moving away from the shirt as a surface. I have guided some of you into the next phase of this project. This step completely divorces you from the shirt surface and moves you to another disparate surface. Experimenting with different surfaces/materials will help to further your conceptual theme. These models use folding as a structural concept, but some of you may not use the “fold” literally. Folding models are concept models that start with a foldable surface, but it may be cut and manipulated to fit your specific idea. This will be due on Wednesday.
Procedure: Take your systemic drawing and retranslate these ideas away from the shirt and towards a new surface. You will be analyzing the notation in your diagrams and translating these ideas into a material exploration.
materials include:
yellow trace
paper
one ply museum board
natural cotton muslin
needle/thread
elastic thread
dressmakers pins
argue for others as we progress
Your systemic diagrams contain instructions for the operations/manipulations of your shirt and can be used as physical evidence to support your concept. Use your operation list... cut/fold/crease/rotate/score/ect... to begin. Think about the order of your shirt operations/manipulations. Think about your concept and how it works formally and functionally. Print your systemic drawing and sketch three initial ideas for Monday. For those of you who I told to try it, continue to do so. The last six slides of the posted presentation illustrate this new assignment perfectly. Only ideas are due on Monday, so be ready. Your fixed drawings are still due and should be printed and posted by 8h30 on Monday.
Questions: What can you reveal about your concept through a manipulation of different materials and techniques? How can material representation work with your conceptual theme.
After Monday we will no longer consume class with questions about your operative shirt diagrams. You should have three types of drawings. The process drawing, the composite drawing, and your systemic drawing. By now you should know Illustrator very well, have good control of your lineweights, have a great language of notation in your drawings, and have a a developed conceptual theme for working with surface. If you do not, then you are not doing well in the class. You need to look around you and see what others are doing if you are having a difficulties with this assignment. It is a dangerous thing for you as a collective to not complete work in studio. Most of your technical questions you ask in class could be answered by your classmates. In this setting you learn from your colleagues and will continue to learn from them until you work in an architectural office.
I will be giving shirt exercise grades on Friday, so if you are behind this is your time to play some catch up. You must remember this is a design studio and your ability to be curious and creative is important. To bring something new to the table is a necessity in this profession. You will not “just do what you are told to do”, this is not designing.
