A few weeks have gone by since I last sat down to contemplate and put to the web what has been slipping by too quickly. Before spring break Marcela Godoy and Aiwen Wang-Huddleston helped me by making custom made wind … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Installation
Pen To Paper: Abstracted Ideas to Buildable Components
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For our midterm in Design Frontiers I opted to look into Harnessing Wind Energy. Concurrently I am in the basic stages of designing a canopy that would perform like a windmill. Each end piece of the canopy would be hooked … Continue reading
From Seed to Tree…
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The project is a wind powered/activated installation. This installation will act like a tree canopy. The leaves will be mounted to a branched system/gridded structure. These leaves will move and dangle in the wind. When these move, the light that … Continue reading
Texturing, Imagining, Dabbling…
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For Project Development Studio we are asked to make a piece that is physically interactive. I am interested in making a piece that is in essence much like a tree but not at all like one. I am fascinated by … Continue reading
Plastic Bags = Structural Modules W/ Living Organisms
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After our “science experiment” recreations we were asked to revisit these again and think of ways to computationally interact with these. Or rather that we should use a phenomenological approach to create a computational interaction. I don’t quite know how … Continue reading