sketches of lectern ideas

The initial ideas that I had for the lectern were focused mainly on the comfort of the presenter. I tried to think about what it is like to be behind the current lectern and what I would like to see instead. The shape that evolved is of a folding motion. It is a continuous linear shape that creates a top work surface as well as a seat on one end of the lectern for the presenter. There is a freestanding magnetic surface that stands beside it - or can be moved - for hanging presentation boards. There is a sunken computer docking station as well as a sunken area for the projector to go where it would be flush with the top surface.

outcome of alpha and second phase

The first of the images is what came of the alpha charrette of the collage of images. Everyone came up with a different interpretation of their piece of the whole. Some people used charcoal, some watercolors, some attached things to their board which made for a difficult time getting them to stay on the wall :). Doug's was pretty cool with lots of layers of mat board stacked on each other and connected with nuts and bolts and some black paper attached to the piece as an abstract representation of the painting. My solution to the part of the painting I got was to use two different mediums - one representing the old painting and another representing the "new" of our studio and how we use technology. In the background where the old painting was I replicated the painting using black ink painting. In the space where the sign for our studio was I went into photoshop and used magazine style lettering to spell out the writing. It created a collage-like image that was representative of our learning process in iarc as well as the project we had created as a whole studio.
The second image is of the next phase of the charrette. We were told to show an overlay of the gatewood building section and show how it somehow connected to the image underneath. We used the section of the building and then cut out peices of it to reveal the work under it creating an interesting composition. We then used yarn to show sunlight patterns of the site.

First Charrette of the semester

For the beginning of the semester project we were each given a square from the Raphael painting "School of Athens."  With this being a project getting us back into the "groove" of school and redefining our creativity, we were told to use 3 or more different techniques to reproduce our own square.  This would in turn create a mosaic of paintings to recreate the whole.  The square I got was the very bottom left corner that doesn't have much on it in the actual painting.  Patrick put together a sign to go in that place to tell who we were as a studio and what we were doing through this project.  When I first started trying to figure out how to go about producing my square, I thought a lot about trying to cut parts out and make parts that are built outward from the painting.  I wanted to do something with black ink and possibly with acrylic paints.  The one mediums that I used from that list were ink and building out.