The projects in this studio served as incubators of explorations in of digital design software and fabrication techniques. Our project: TRANSITION: looks at understanding ideas of transition in discrete parts from solids to lines, and in materials from opaque to transparent. Lines are folded to create a surface, which in turn are manipulated to create solids.
4 sculptures were given to the team which were then fragmented using different strategies. The kitbashing strategies looked at manipulating these parts to create arrangements that informed the subsequent morphology explorations. These explorations displayed either ideas of transitions of parts or pieces that still strongly resembled the original sculpture.
Project Team: Yiyin Wu, Aishwarya Rajasekar, Chinmayi Suri, Wenzhou Zhang
A morphology that best represented Transition was chosen. A central nodal volume is formed by lines (like a melting point origin) which then transform into surfaces and solids radially. Folded lines create a volume that becomes solid, and lines that flatten out form a surface
Materiality as shown in the render transitions from the strong opaque nature of the solid pieces to a fragmented void characteristic of the node that dissolves into translucent fins and finally the transparent surfaces. The localized conditions detail overlapping fins that extrude from the curved parts. Texturing and layering of the fins were techniques used to add depth to the morphology.
VR, AR, Animation explorations