This a sketch. I don’t think its quite there yet, but I like the general idea. A little nervous about the Ernie Gehr reference…

For April’s Steel City Suppositions, these drawings began to explore imaginations for Pittsburgh’s city steps.

Ascending Projections, 2010

I spent more time recently refining the technical process of generating these images. A lot of images have often had various unintended objects or spaces pop in between two frames. By specifically measuring the heights, angles, and distances in a controlled space I can focus on the technical aspects of generating images. Here is the newest series, with explanatory poster, which refines this process.

Poster:

Printed!

The set up:

In other news, I sold my first print:

I was always a bit apprehensive about using a frame, but I’m really pleased with how the frame, if anything, enhances the image. I’ve been putting the two inch white border on the images for awhile now, since they create a space for the image to sit within. I think the frame allows this space to separate itself from whatever the context is; and hey, its a pretty nice frame.

Well, here it is:

And now graduation. And then….

Compilation of five years.

Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture’s 2009 B.Arch senior show has arrived! Friday May 8 at the US Steel Tower, Pittsburgh.

As we finish our thesis projects, we are also in the midst of organizing our senior show. Should be classy and fun, a definite must.

I am looking to figure out how the building can dematerialize. The hollow accumulates a lot of fog, both natural and artificial from the neighboring boiler plant. I’m not looking to cloak the building in the fog, but I think it would be interesting to consider the exterior of the building as a porous, indefinite whole. The materiality can dematerialize, shift, obscure, and float the mass.

The interior social spaces are unrelated to the external form, creating an experience that cannot be objectified by understanding an exterior to the interior. Like the belly of a whale, the inside spaces and structure have no evident relationship to the exterior form. This results in an architecture that is purely experiential.