David Vega
For
Project 0, Form Families, we set out to develop a series of shapes derived from
a single form technique including carving, aggregation, Boolean, extrusion,
etc. As my formal generation technique, I selected Arrangement working through
a series of iterations and observing what changes from one to the next. Our final
models were to be made from Bristol and presented alongside multiple images.
A parti was used to organize thought behind the overall
design, derived from 15th century French “parti pris”, meaning
decision taken. Historically the parti precedes the development of building
forms through plans, sections, and elevation. My parti Begins to depict the
process of a developing concept surrounded by the ideas of the formal technique
arrangement through plan views. While Defining arrangement and what it means to
arrange and the different variations across cultures/approaches. I was drawn to
the arrangements and processes of Ikebana, a traditional art of flower
arranging in Japan.
Ikebana and specifically the style of Moribana utilizes a kenzan, a kind of plate with countless needles mounted on top, when arranging the flowers, designers insert stems of flowers onto the kenzan and then are place within a suiban, or shallow container of sort. The stems are comprised of three parts and are measured in relation to the base, determining proper length, in which translates the mathematics applied to the grid within the parti.
Placing in abstract representation the mathematics and geometry related to Moribana flower arrangements across the grid acting as the needles of the kenzan displays the initial step developing form. As we lay out each stem representing, Shin, Soe , and Tai become the pillars and columns within our formal language, representing our structural system. Finalizing the parti is the final arrangement forms of various pie slice massing stacked and organized and grouped along the abstract stems and kenzan completing the overall arrangement and form.
Ikebana and specifically the style of Moribana utilizes a kenzan, a kind of plate with countless needles mounted on top, when arranging the flowers, designers insert stems of flowers onto the kenzan and then are place within a suiban, or shallow container of sort. The stems are comprised of three parts and are measured in relation to the base, determining proper length, in which translates the mathematics applied to the grid within the parti.
Placing in abstract representation the mathematics and geometry related to Moribana flower arrangements across the grid acting as the needles of the kenzan displays the initial step developing form. As we lay out each stem representing, Shin, Soe , and Tai become the pillars and columns within our formal language, representing our structural system. Finalizing the parti is the final arrangement forms of various pie slice massing stacked and organized and grouped along the abstract stems and kenzan completing the overall arrangement and form.
The imagery of the final model, made out of bristol, balsa rounds