Below are the images from the Bus|Shelter project. Our design focused around a tai chi position called snake creeps down. The design took on a more direct approach to the sprituality of tai chi. This design has 3 different degrees of spirituality with the greatest set in the enclosed space on the very end. Although ultimately deemed to have a number of concerns with construction the form itself was widely liked. Lights within the glass panes lit up the space to allow for a bit more safety and one pane of glass was decided to be used to display valuable information related to the bus system of greensboro.

Bus|Shelter

Having concluded the latest charette in our bus|shelter and shelter|bus community design project. I present to you my bus shelter from start to finish. Given my site out side the weatherspoon art gallery I knew I immediately wanted it to relate and therefore I thought it should be sculptural, this led to a series of forms which I played around with.







I was inspired by the architect Tadao Ando who uses concrete and light to create interesting effects using a very minute amount of material, I came to the conclusion that I would use concrete while using light as a focal point of some kind. Taking inspiration from the Ectasy of St. Teresa by Bernini I found a phenomena of light called Zodical Light in which a wash of light goes up into the sky to a very fine point. I decided that this would be the effect that would recreate with my design.




With my concept and ideas I began to build my model






As you can see I took a very modern approach with a bit of minimalism as I wanted the form really to be what attracted the people. On the interior of the triangular wall are a series of glass prisms that will reflect the light and recreate the effect of the Zodiacal light.


These details illustrate a few of the minor details but are important none the less. One shows how the shelter is secured so it will not collapse or fall over the other shows how to keep the glass protected from the concretes expanding and contracting in tempreture changes.

Finally I prepared a contextual illustration of the bus shelter as it should appear in its site.

A bus for relief workers

after 44 hours of being awake continuously to finish I can say that I am satisfied with my design for the bus for relief workers that I have just finished. To aide those who dont know, I am uploading my boards so that you can share this experience. I cant really think of anything to add that isnt on the boards.. but I suppose its okay to just add the drawings were done with markers and colored pencil.

A post card to Jay Lennartson

Dear Mr. Lennartson,
My thanks for your taking time to come and speak with the Interior Architecture studios. I found your lecture albeit cut short to be show the true beauty of the earth. The images taken from space really were amazing to look at and I think gave a lasting impact to how we will design in the future.

Friday Sketching

Anohter chance to work with perspectives, this time back in the EUC just like last term. Took a seat in the food court and set to work sketching, the people I took very gestrally I think not really illustrating the details as frankly, they were very far away.. Overall I'm happy with it.. enough to add some color.

Prècis

Having finished our charettes for the shelter|bus and bus|shelter projects I give you my prècis of all the information. Use this in conjunction with other students work to give you an indication of what our studio is all about.

Sketching Away

Right So, been sketching over the past few days trying to get some practice with shading, thicker lines to show depth and just perspective in general that we've been covering in Jake's drawing lecture. So below you'll see 2 of my better results.


This first one I shamefully did while jake was going over perspective so while I guess its bad I was sketching, it was relevant. I think the hatching really helped with this as well I think it looks pretty good and alot better than some of my past work.


This image I did quickly and small because it was shortly before my psycology lecture and thusly I had to make sure that I didnt miss it when he began to speak.

Just a quick post for now, will have a few more things to post shortly though. Patience is a virtue, even if I lack it.