Conceptual images

Working with another group member we worked on finding out what exactly scared geometry meant to us and being the visual people that we are found more information from images that we found than text. What is above are three of my favorite pieces that we found. Each speak a very different language but I feel if I can pull any singular idea from one of these images my classroom as a whole will be more unified and cohesive to the entirety of the school project.

Environmental cycle

As a class we are all looking at circles in a physical and psychological sense and seeing what that means in the build environment. Trying to find ways to reconnect the broken environmental cycle, in a healthy productive way. Bridging the gaps and disruptions that humankind has created within the respiration and cycle due to our ceaseless mining of resources. In this way attempting to work on the High school and Middle school and find ways to reconnect the circle for that community, providing a healthier living situation for all living organisms. In hopes of uplifting these structures to a higher level even though they are LEED certified they seeming have taken no consecration of the landscaping in which they were building. We wish to return the honor of this climate and landscape back to what it is, so that Mother Nature has a fighting chance against our constant battement and abuse.

Process Drawings Part III

After much research and thought this is where I am currently at in my design process.

Process Drawings Part II

Looking at outdoor fix seating that would incorporate its self into the trellis and other aspects of the outdoor space. When these ideas are flushed out I'll start to pull the idea/forms/materials into the interior of the rooms.

Guilford High Art classrooms/patio

From the existing structure over at Northern Guilford High, talking to Wade, Lindsey and their students I've started develop some ideas for their adjoining rooms. My main focus at the present is connecting the outside courtyard to the interior classrooms. Which both teachers have expressed a need to have a stronger tie to their exterior environment.

This undertaking is not a sole adventure but there are three other students in my class that are also helping recreate these spaces into different usable dynamic environments. That not only makes the teachers lives a little bit easier as well as gives a breath of inspiration as well to the students that are engaging with these spaces. As a whole group our joint concept is: Sacred Geometry of a circle, which means, to unifying indoor and outdoor through the sacred geometry of a circle.

I’m working with the mediation between the indoor and outdoor environments and hoping to find the best way to blur the two together. In a way to unify the two through having the outside and inside interact with one another in an inclusive circular way. My idea at first was to look at screened in porches and how that creates mediation between the two worlds. From there I moved into a completely open situation where there would be doors would act as the visual passage as well as the physical passage from one environment to the other.

After the informal critics today I believe I am moving back to the idea of a screened porch. Which is strengthened by my wish to create vine trellis, which would act as a way of inclosing the patio. But before all this, what follow is all the drawings that I have created thus far.





I am thinking that when the art classes really get into there pottery sections of the classes they could create pieces that would go out on the patio. Acting as sculptural pieces as well as ways to have extra planters, in this way they are themselves informing the environment in which the live.

 







Wade and Lindsey's classrooms are different in structural apprentices and with these drawings I was thinking of opening the room with a grudge door which was thrown out shortly after the idea because it didn't look right in both rooms.



First crack at opening up the room before doing more research on front facades of cafes.

Observation Drawings

While visting the high school I took some time in Wades classroom and the other art techers room to sketch a few diffrent aspects and veiws of the room. These are the fruits of that undertaking, sorry I couldn't find my black pen.











This is a simple study of what is there now a take off place from which to work from.

Atlanta Field Trip

The past couple of years my program has asked the fourth year class to participate in a class wide trip to Atlanta GA. Two days packed full of visiting different studios, of all sorts and learning, listening and talking to working professionals. Typically the all time high point of the year for the fourth year students.

waited till Sunday afternoon having previous obligations. Myself included in the later half. My dear friend Jess diplomatically decided to drive Kemina and myself down. I was to arrive at Jess's parents home and shower whileAs the week approached the energy level and excitement through out the two studios mounted to new levels. Many choices to leave Saturday morning and start the trip early while others Kemina found her way to Jess's. Then from there we were to start the adventures car trip. Which to my horror turned adventures in ways that no one would like very quickly. We hit sleet on the other side of Charlotte about an hour and half into the trip. After a quick stop to fill up our bellies and the gas tank we hopped back on the road.

Didn't make it too long before the snow started to fall heavy. So much in fact about the time we hit the South Carolina line we had to stop and shovel the snow off the hood of the car so that Jess and I could see out the windshield. Still not terribly worried but taking it slowly we continued onwards, seeing cars abandon or stuck every mile. This only last a couple of minutes because the traffic in front of us came to a stop around 8:30 or so. We chilled in the car all the while getting reports from friends and classmates about the conditions in and outside of Atlanta. Finally after sitting for over an hour we decided that the best action to take would be to pull off and find a hotel for the night and go from there in the morning. All the while the snow is pilling higher and higher around us. After another half hour I tell Jess to go ahead and turn the car off that we're not moving any where for a while. Last time, I heard of this much snow falling this fast the highway was closed to prevent any further accidents on the road that night. Time passes snow continues to fall, Jess's parent call every couple once and a while asking if we've gotten to a hotel yet. Kemina's phone dies after her continues texting for the past couple hours.



My mother calls in a complete panic. "Where are you?" I'm in the car chatting with Jess; we're not moving and don’t look like we are going anywhere any time soon. Are you okay? Yes momma I brought my blanket and pillow and Jess had brought lots of water and snacks for the trip. We are fine, just sitting' chatting away.



A couple of hours later around about 1:30 or 2 AM a gentleman comes wondering by. Taps on the window, scares the heck out of Keman who had been asleep in the back. He's asking if we have kids in the car, if we're all okay and if we have gas. Then moves on when he sees that we got everything under control. But before this he tells us that there had been a couple of wrecked ahead of us and they had been working to clear those and were just getting to the one that blocked us. That it would be a couple more hours because stupid people had made our two lane highway into four trying to squeeze through. I've told Jess to try to get some sleep that I'd stay up and wake her if we started moving or anything else happens.



All is completely quite, haven't seen any cars go by in the other lane in hours.

Little after 3:30 the cars around us turn on their lights and start up their cars. We get moving and are at the stopped tractor-trailer in moments. Find the next exit and turn around and start home. After much debate about if Jess is ready to brave the horrible road conditions. We roll on at a craw for hours occasionally hitting slick spots and the car spinning 90 to 180 degrees. Finally make it to Jess's house about 9 on Monday morning. We're we all find breakfast and a shovel to dig Kemina's car out to continue on to Greensboro and our beds. I'll be complete all right if I never have to go through a night like that ever again. By the time I reached home about 10:30, I was completely exulted physically and mental from staying up all-night and trying to keep Jess alert and calm.

After a hot shower, calling the roommates I hadn’t seen or heard from in the last 24 hours, putt on a movie on I crawled onto the couch to nap.