Space | Form | Surface
Architectural Design Studio, UC Berkeley
The Challenge: How is space created? Use a given photograph to inspire and translate into a conceptual exploration of a three-dimensional formal system.
Investigation:The given photograph, a magnified rock pattern, displayed contouring. The project extruded and spatialized these contours by exploiting a single operative strategy – lofting. This explored three formal logics: line, aggregation, and subtraction to create spatial depth.
Methods: Formal analysis, 3D modeling, diagramming
Prototype: Variations on a circular grid, created by merging and altering circle size, were used to generate several two-dimensional layers of shapes which were then lofted together to produce distinct volumes and subsequently subtracted from a prism of set dimensions.