Friday, September 10, 2010

Shapes Exposed

I've never blogged before. This is a test.
But these thoughts are real.

Working with other disciplines can be funny, all of us have different routes around brainstorming. As a student from the architecture field, it was interesting to see how words were defined in a concrete or abstract manner. I've heard that architects or just people in the architectural field have trouble communicating their ideas to the public because our knowledge doesn't have a strong base in general education (or simply because the jargon is obscure, and assimilating into the study as first years UG1 was hard enough). It makes me wonder if one year is enough to make a poor soul speak gibberish.

The project was given 3 constraints. I don't remember them, but it's vaguely: 1. Surface, 2. Exposed, 3. Shapes which together form a curved surface.

Since Surface wasn't written on a piece of paper, that clue was ignored. Basically, surface. It's useful.

Exposed. Exposed was the revealing of something, presumably an object. It could also be the revealing of another side of the same object. But it could also be that the object has multiple sides/facades each revealed in a different manner, something like the analogy of peeling away the layers of an onion--each layer reveals the next layer, and there is more to come. In that sense, exposing is no longer an immediate surprise in those certain dreams where suddenly you have no clothes on, but a gradual change (I don't think an example is necessary here). Is being exposed necessarily a threat? The connotations of exposed makes the action seem dangerous, but exposed can be a good thing as well. Openess, flowers expose themselves when the sun is out so that other life may survive. And other things...

Shapes...are geometrical. Polygons. What kind of polygons? Hexagon, pentagon, four-sided figures. Shapes can also be in 3D, infinite possibilities. A model needs x, y, and z.

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