Jennifer's Shelving System

My shelving system is made to store and protect information as well as display it and provide a work surface to organize or deorganize work. When separated from the other parts of the unit, the shelves appear to be normal shelves, yet due to the materials and usage, they combine together to form not only a landscape, but a highly adptable structure.

We were also looking at putting this system in the "entrance" where threshold boundaries can be broken. Perhaps the user wants to bring part of the outside with them into the space and enclose it, or store their personal belongings. Maybe they want to enjoy the garden landscape of the entryway and they proceed to use the system as a relaxing device.

andrew's design brief

here is a link, its 3 pages long

TABLE / WORKSPACE

Richard & Lawrence's Design Brief for Stairs March, 04, 08

Richard's Design Brief from March, 04, 08

LEE'S LIVING LANDSCAPE

Living Landscape

I, Lee Winfield, would like to design a Living Landscape. On the main ground floor, will reside these pieces for seating, lying, relaxing, reading and dwelling.

They will both restrict and divide as well as combine and bring people together.

The pieces will be modular, in the sense that they could be used individually without feeling restricted, or in pairs and combinations with each other. However they could easily fit together and form a unified piece of landscape that will act as both a divider and an area to spend time on.

They will be soft and comfortable but at the same time structural and should exist in the space as identities of themselves.

They can be transformed as they are physically rotated and placed on different angles, but this is the extent of their transformability.

The pieces should be comfortable to sit/lie/relax/read/study/conduct a conversation or a discussion on, as well as act as visual forms in the space when not used.

The pieces can be easily moved in the space and used in various ways to form them into several shapes for different needs.

Relaxing and comforting, surrounding and hugging, yet should not clog the space. Residents should feel free to move them and walk around them, push them aside and contain them rather than feel claustrophobic and enclosed.

The Landsca pe could be used by an individual, or by all residents simultaneously. When used by the collective, its design would make more sense, as if when used by all seven inhabitants, they will discover a hidden secret. When they reveal it, they will understand the true meaning of living in the Habitorium.

check this out at "plug in city" and "plug in house"

I wanted to show you an interactive art project that was on display (and up for play) at Eyebeam. it goes like this:

you draw ANYTHING on a piece of REGULAR A4 paper, press a button and start playing, move your drawing around.. as the images show below. it is rather hard to control the lines and strokes, and they move around and rotate and swivel. 

let me know if you want more information  or photos... (i also made some fun videos)

-Lee

Below are some of our sketches from the last two meetings. 

for inspiration/reminder

Pictures of cells 2

Pictures of cells

Thesis For Sam, Jen, and Lawrence's Group

Our hypothesis argues to keep a non-intrusive visual of an inner and outer ring. We believe it is important to create a boundary that is suggestive, not dictating. This wouldn’t overwhelm the inhabitants with one large mass because it would be two spaces that we propose to identify as public and private. Through research, we have come to the conclusion that some structure gives an aura of comfort, peace, and relaxation, especially in a new place.
We want to create walls that cease from completely breaking up the space into a grid but create boundary lines for the community to understand who has what private space. The boundary lines will keep a loose authority on social behavior and the pillars can act as a boundary line in a few different ways. In some of our designs the pillars would act as a vestibule, or would have pull out walls. In other ways that we are exploring a structure that is a hallway cutting through a bedroom. We don’t want the space to be individual pieces as proposed in our midterm presentation, but a "series of things" not limited to 8.
We want to the inhabitants to focus on the reason why they were brought there in the first place, to design. Instead of allowing them to arrange the entire space, we would like it to be possible for them to arrange their public working and private spaces. Without structural support and visual division, the body of designers would spend more time designing their space than focusing on their project, especially if it is an urgent project. We want equal aspects of modularity and stability. We had a very hard time designing furniture for a place without the limitations imposed by some kind of structural element.
We think it’s important to identify what is private and what is public space because based on research of human habit, the individual is very important. We identified these as being the bathroom, bed, and workspace. We will test our hypothesis by researching more habits related to these specific areas. We will continue to explore the relationship of the 5 senses and how barriers can relate to each other.

images from the first review. critics and the model.

yes.. Lee was at MOMA once again..

Two images of a building that had a lot of interconnecting bridges between the rooms and 'floating' spaces
enjoy.





The piece below reminded me of what Robert was talking about today- the flow of people in a space. (in reference to Richard's Tokyo airport images) i also poster the explanation as to what the map is of (flow of people in phili city centre)
it makes me want to leave this building and start planning a CITY.. or a COUNTRY.. ?!




this architectural collage piece reminded me of our 'cells' i love the colours and the 'random' shapes




I am really sorry about exposing you to the following work by Kashiwa Sato
http://kashiwasato.com/?#fuji_kindergarten