FormZ Animation Exercises

Ball bouncing on spring:
http://people.clemson.edu/~nathana/spring2.avi

Coin rolling down funnel:
http://people.clemson.edu/~nathana/funnel.avi

Marble running through ramps:
http://people.clemson.edu/~nathana/marble2.avi

Chat Crit

The group crit of our one-hour charette was a rather confusing way to communicate. The questions were hard to field all at once and it wasn't always clear who was answering who. Though the discussion was lively, perhaps next time a crit with sound and video would be better (or maybe even just receiving comments on our blogs.)

Charette 08.30.06

First Video Conference

Other than one brief lost connection, my first personal video conference with Ron went smoothly. It is much more personal and effective to see the face of the person you are communicating with. I am curious to see how the same technology will be used in the context of a jury. I think that because of the barrier between professor/juror and student, much more emphasis will be placed on communicating through drawings, diagrams, and models rather than verbal explanation, which should be a good way to improve the clarity in my work.

During the conference, I was encouraged to use images, rather than text and single pictures, to speculate and propose ideas for the precedents I have chosen. As suggested, I will experiment with collages and simple drawings using Photoshop and Google Earth to attempt this.

Mega Expectations

I hope to develop a greater knowledge of techniques in digital design and fabrication and learn how to communicate architecture digitally. My experience is limited in digital communication so I hope to fill this gap. I am interested in how the MEGA concept of this course relates to globalization and cultural transformation. Especially in how cultural and individual identity and uniqueness are maintained in our environment of growing emphasis of big over small and whole over part. I am also interested in studying modular building and prefabricated building techniques, something that seems to be increasingly present in the building industry, and how it can be utilized to create practical structures while avoiding monotony and banality. It should be interesting to work simultaneously in several scales through digital modeling and design. I expect the course to be an engaging study of the relations of parts to the whole, both conceptually and physically. I also expect it to be a challenge due to its experimental nature.