ARCH1142 Fluid Thoughts to Motion Selected Folio

ARCH1142 Material Modelling Week 4

The simple becomes the complicated, the parts become the whole.

This work represents the evolution of thought and process in material modelling that I have experienced this semester. It's form is intended to represent a simple, rectangular volume expressed as a compilation of gradually finer rectangular volumes that are interconnected. It took 5 hours to build.





























































All of the joints in this work are either notched or mitered.

ARCH1142 Material Modelling Week 3

The following, Sinister, was spawned following a visit to the CBD. It is a reflection on the more sinister aspects of light in the city.

The day. The light. Everywhere the objects of luminescence rest silently, eyes closed. Like torches they stand ready to burst into light, to change those around them, to show them differently, expose them in the darkness.

But without the dark do they have purpose? Some. Some bear the flags of the now and the planned, of the present and the future. Some mark portals; to the road, to the building. But others? Are they even noticed? What of their many idiosyncrasies? What of the one that flickers, or the one with the low reddish glow that warms and holds without heating or touching?

I am looking for them, even though it is they that are meant to light my path. But the light shrouds them in darkness. Do they remain unused, ignored and forgotten. Or are they sentinels of the dark, waiting patiently for their time to shine, to light the way, to protect?

Is it a great city of light? Or does the day reveal the lights to be the great destroyers of darkness?

As I explore the alleys and the open spaces I can’t help but feel the lights as sinister, the slaves of vision. At the same time they are beacons of the debauchery and danger of the city night, as well as the illuminators of the safe and well meaning. Their pervasive presence and myriad forms stretch through time and space. Yet it is not a consistent time that they traverse. Lights exist in their new forms in much greater numbers than their old. The care taken in their construction and detailing dwindles like an expiring candle. Yet their scale has become so much larger. Is it an ever-present, robust light that we need? It would seem that what was once a path is now an ever expanding field of light, amorphous, cold and unrelenting.

One can help but reflect upon the changing fabric of the city and the people who use it. Are we more wicked or more active?

Look up, above the hooded poles to recognise the true light and dark. The night is the great humble, and the day more powerful than any light.

ARCH1142 Material Modelling Week 2

This work is inspired by the early design for the extension to the Tate Modern tendered by Herzog and DeMeuron. It is entitled Fold and is made from a single piece of folded card.

ARCH1142 Material Modelling Week 1