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On The Edge
Caleb Roberts | [email protected]
As my most recent project, this is a culmination of everything that I have learned so far. After being given a site model, the goal was to design an inhabitable viewing apparatus for the site. For the purposes of the project, the specifics of the site were left out: The idea was that we should design the means by which the view is experienced and not merely frame the view.
I began with a single cube and carved out of it to create a unique experience of the space. The final product is a two-level structure with two distinct and dynamic paths that lead to separate public and pri-vate viewing spaces. Users will be drawn in by the con-trasting materials of the exterior and interior where they will be immersed in a deep experience of light and space.
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Shapes Carving Shapes
Caleb Roberts | [email protected]
This project began with the creation of wooden wire-frame models of a 12X12” cube intersected and carved by other, smaller boxes in order to create a dynamic and interesting space. The project then moved to a solid/void model as I measured by hand the intersecting points of each box in the wire-frame model to accurately cut the faces from sheet mate-rial. My design centers around the proportionality of each intersecting volume to. Each intersecting vol-ume also intersects another volume and engages a minimum of two of the exterior faces of the cube.
The resulting form is an incredibly dynamic solid that allows light to interact with it in a provocative manner. I enjoyed this project so much that it in-spired my final project of the semester. I used the same shape-carving method in my final project to achieve similar manipulations of space and light.
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Plane, Surface, Volume
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Through this project, I explored the capabilities of a flat plane to create dynamic space and form. In other words, I created three-dimensional objects from a flat sheet of paper. To do this, I used sim-ple crease patterns and folded the paper in order to give it depth and strength. This exercise was a study of the relationships between planes, surfaces, and volumes as they create spatial and visual effects.
In order to display this concept, I created an inhab-itable column, a folded-plate entry space, and a curved-crease path model. Each of the two models creates a unique experience through the use of the paper and the specific crease pattern utilized for each.
Basic pattern culumnar crease Frequency and proportion
Radiating curves Spiraling curves Inflexion
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Curves With Lines
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Curved surfaces are regularly a challenge in archi-tecture and construction as they are quite expen-sive and difficult to manufacture. This exercise uti-lized a design method that solves that issue in that it breaks the curved surface into a series of straight lines. The goal was to create a dynamic space through the use of these ruled surfaces. I began by determining boundaries for the curves, which i de-cided to be a triangle. I then filled the boundaries with ruled surfaces, altering the boundaries as I pro-gressed in order to achieve a more dynamic product.
My final model for this exercise rose from an at-tempt to create an optical illusion of what a tri-angke-bound ruled surface drawing would look like. I achieved this and also created an inhabitable space that would work well as a pavillion or instalation.
Carpenter’s Elipse
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The carpenter’s elipse is a method used for de-signing and drafting that has been in place for many years. This exercise expanded the idea past the simple method used to draw an accurate elipse and utilized digital tools to create dynam-ic drawings from a simple arrangement of elipses.
My design centers around repetition, proportionality, and growth. Each of my designs begins with a simple pair of elipses crossng perpendicularly. It continues to grow, either in scale or in number until the original two elipses are all but lost in the new design created.
