how much wood could a wood chuck, chuck, if a wood chuck, could chuck, wood?

For this project I looked at the electoral map from RealClearPolitics.com (more specifically the “Toss Up” states) and chose to relate them to when the presidential candidates were on tour there over the past several months.  Each of the “skins” (one rendered, the other in wire frame), reflect an abstracted map of the United States.  Portions of the map are raised according to how often each candidate visited the “Toss Up” state over the past several months.  The colored dots throughout the map relate to the time line atop the image, the darker the dot, the more recent the visit.  The three tallest parts of the map relate to a trend I saw while looking at each candidates tour schedules.  Barack Obama seemed to have spent a large majority of his time in Iowa while, John McCain seemed to split alot of his time between Florida and Arizona.

skin

thoughts

A pretty thing made out of chipboard and butterboard, the model from exercise 05 sits pinned to the wall static and unresponsive. The ordering of the decorations within the hexagon is denoted by the repetition of patterns within patterns. The units repeated are circular and centralized in nature which when repeated in the hexagon suggests the potential for exploring rotational movement.

Project A will deal with the investigation of perceptive movement on a static surface. The static nature can be debatable. The elements of patterning from exercise 05 could be repeated after a certain order and thus create a skin. Because the ornamentation featured in exercise 05 is curvilinear and even flowery the model rends itself to be interpreted as an organic form. The skin that project A would propose is to be an organic entity composed from the stitching of a repeated unit borrowed from exercise 05. This skin itself then could begin to shape and fold according to a pattern or order to create space.

A possible investigation is to propose the skin itself as the space. Thinking about the entity of the skin as a living organism with a surface that is responsive to human touch and activity.

Sources:

(Un)folding Form by Kostas Terzidis from Expressive Form, A Conceptual Approach to Computational Design

The Function of Ornament edited by Farshid Moussavi and Michael Kubo

Peel

Translation, Week1