I am writing this review after experiencing the lasercutting studio sessions; and it may have been better that I have as I am able to me more sympathetic towards my original critique of your design. Sorry if my actual crit on crit day was mean - you know that I am only critiquing your particular work and not you as a person (because I know you are extremely capable of doing really good design).
In your design, you have said that the material failure - in that it did not bend - was one reason why you did not use the lasercut model for your final design. However, this reason seems superficially decided in that you just reverted back to the 'paper' model of your threshold; this made it seem like you completely abandoned the potential to look for more materials to work with. It would be really important to have seen different materials be used and really see the 'lasercut' techniques to come out: this means to explore the lasercutter as having both limitations and opportunities. Knowing these opportunities would have allowed the laser cutting to be an integral part of your design process and may have even enhanced your design through the digital processes, remembering that this semester is about investigation into digital modes of media. Finally, it is vital that the designer pays attention to media as a way of making explicit the intentions and ideas of design - so the material, construction and assemblage of things are essential aspects in design as a way of really conveying and emphasising different parts of the architecture.
The threshold did not have a careful consideration of the site. Although, the site itself is open to subjective interpretation, I always saw the courtyard as a place of coming together that worked extremely well because of the open, spacious and exposure to the plants and the building itself; and in fact, being a brutalist building by KRTA, you can see that the architecture building was built around the trees to illustrate the design intention of a more social-sensitive approach. Enclosing the spaces into triangular spaces may be greatly applied somewhere else, but I saw this as somewhat of a 'trapping' - if it is to be enclosed, is there any way that the threshold can have some relation to the atmosphere that I addressed? That is, if you provide an alternative to such a great space, you must have a really convincing design that shows that you have paid attention the atmosphere of the site.
Your final design A3 pages and the model demonstrate a high-level of craft - and the site photo with the threshold in it illustrates a clarity and realistic view.
After doing the laser cut as well, I realized the difficulties that you faced when finding materials for the laser cut. Though I think that you could have chosen some kind of material instead to show texture of the actual threshold instead of just the form only. I liked the way you presented your work as it was easy to understand and comprehend the purpose of your threshold and and where it will be located. Though I think perhaps you could have designed your threshold to suit the environment more so that it did not look like it was just 'placed' there. i think you had a thorough understanding of the reading and translated it to your 'threshold' Overall i think your design satisfied the brief or the 'threshold' but i think the way that you executed it could have made the final outcome more appealing
I am writing this review after experiencing the lasercutting studio sessions; and it may have been better that I have as I am able to me more sympathetic towards my original critique of your design. Sorry if my actual crit on crit day was mean - you know that I am only critiquing your particular work and not you as a person (because I know you are extremely capable of doing really good design).
ReplyDeleteIn your design, you have said that the material failure - in that it did not bend - was one reason why you did not use the lasercut model for your final design. However, this reason seems superficially decided in that you just reverted back to the 'paper' model of your threshold; this made it seem like you completely abandoned the potential to look for more materials to work with. It would be really important to have seen different materials be used and really see the 'lasercut' techniques to come out: this means to explore the lasercutter as having both limitations and opportunities. Knowing these opportunities would have allowed the laser cutting to be an integral part of your design process and may have even enhanced your design through the digital processes, remembering that this semester is about investigation into digital modes of media. Finally, it is vital that the designer pays attention to media as a way of making explicit the intentions and ideas of design - so the material, construction and assemblage of things are essential aspects in design as a way of really conveying and emphasising different parts of the architecture.
The threshold did not have a careful consideration of the site. Although, the site itself is open to subjective interpretation, I always saw the courtyard as a place of coming together that worked extremely well because of the open, spacious and exposure to the plants and the building itself; and in fact, being a brutalist building by KRTA, you can see that the architecture building was built around the trees to illustrate the design intention of a more social-sensitive approach. Enclosing the spaces into triangular spaces may be greatly applied somewhere else, but I saw this as somewhat of a 'trapping' - if it is to be enclosed, is there any way that the threshold can have some relation to the atmosphere that I addressed? That is, if you provide an alternative to such a great space, you must have a really convincing design that shows that you have paid attention the atmosphere of the site.
Your final design A3 pages and the model demonstrate a high-level of craft - and the site photo with the threshold in it illustrates a clarity and realistic view.
After doing the laser cut as well, I realized the difficulties that you faced when finding materials for the laser cut.
ReplyDeleteThough I think that you could have chosen some kind of material instead to show texture of the actual threshold instead of just the form only.
I liked the way you presented your work as it was easy to understand and comprehend the purpose of your threshold and and where it will be located.
Though I think perhaps you could have designed your threshold to suit the environment more so that it did not look like it was just 'placed' there.
i think you had a thorough understanding of the reading and translated it to your 'threshold'
Overall i think your design satisfied the brief or the 'threshold' but i think the way that you executed it could have made the final outcome more appealing