teaching
This is likely my favorite single project.
The sophomore studios do site-specific installations in the Architecture building every spring. Typically, teams of four stake out a location and develop strategies to adapt to and alter that location.
This particular group wanted a system that would attach itself to the building’s bespoke ramp and window details.
One of the constraints of the project is the low budget each team is allowed to apply to materials. This typically puts teams in the position to use A LOT of something very cheap.
This team braided toilet paper and developed a dynamic webbing system that is held together by fully independent and adjustable vertices made from the toilet paper’s cardboard rolls, allowing for a highly adaptive form. Intensive experimentation (without digital assistance) bred a confidence in form making that was stunningly actualized.
too dimensional
I’ve used that title in a few places over the years, but this is where it originates. Paper Architecture.
PHOTOGRAPHS
These are a sampling of photos I contributed to the Knowlton School of Architecture Digital Library at its founding. Most of these were taken during two travelling fellowships to Europe in which I also taught drawing to KSA Arch students.
I saw the changing of the guard while in architecture school. When I started, we all drafted our final projects, ink on vellum, and cut and built our own models. By the time I graduated, everyone was building their projects in Rhino and putting them through the laser cutter.
Nearly all of the documentation of my student work is either lost or on a Macromedia Freehand file on an old HDD somewhere. What remains below is scant, and is mostly either very early work, or studies that were built in the interest of larger final projects.
