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These are the first phases of our Millard House
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So, I am still trying to get this page to where I want it to be, but, it will just have to do for a long while. this is the first project that was done for Arch 201, the studio class; recreating a house. My group was assigned Frank Lloyd Wright's "Millard House" otherwise know as "La Miniature". I know what you are thinking, is that plaster, and it is, plaster of paris through and through. we used a mesh to make a brick like texture, and double walls of foamcore to make the cast, all and all it turned out to be a hit. Perhaps hours of work was too much for a model that ended going through the band-saw, but it was glorious in its prime (which lasted some 10 hours!)		  
     
small product photo Above is a video-like showing of a 3 dimensional chair that the arch students had to do. It is a representation of an Eams Lounge and Ottoman. We did all rendering and composing in rhino4.0, which was pretty nifty software. To the left is a composition type thing of some staggered phases.
entryway roundabout door sideview the great below

These images are part of the second project we have worked on. The project started with a trip down to Kansas City, MO. where we went to the Nelson-Atkins Museum to study thresholds. The idea of a theshold being the physical changes in an environment, changes that can be sensed, such as light, touch, taste... I finally decided on the front door, oddly, and narrowed in on the sound differences; thus tall thick walls were teh choice of medium for my model to help isolate the sounds that I would have pumping out of 4 small headphones placed in each section of the model.

The idea was behind the model, but it didn't convey the message as well as I could have hoped, the sounds was quiet, and easily distorted. Also, being a live recording, there became bits of non-sounds and extreme sounds throughout my clips. Ohh well!
Well, I have no images yet to put up onto here, but the end of the semester is finally here. It's odd just how quickly it goes by, and how long it seems from day to day though. I am pretty excited for tomorrow, the 3rd of December '07, it is the last day for our studio class; which, however, does mean having our final review. boo. Luckily my professor said a blind person could draw my house; a great self esteem booster indeed. I will hopefully get some pictures up around break time. The house is based on a circular motif, and deals with the issue of views.