Xinlei Chen
This isometric view shows a room with an irregular shape interior, two windows, two skylights, and a door. The outer shape of the room is a hemisphere, and the inside room is formed by a cylinder and a cone shape partially overlapping together, the windows are created through the intersection of the cone and hemisphere, and two different-sized skylights are formed at the intersection of the cylinder and hemisphere surface. On the right side, the bigger size window and skylight are touched and can also be read together as an irregular shape opening. A sphere carved out an opening that connects the outer space and the inner space of the room forming a doorway.
This series of elevation sketches show various way that explores relationships between different shapes and their orientation to carve out opening to form space. From the top left to the top right, the carving shapes for the room shifts from the traditional angle-edged shapes to rounded shapes. On the bottom left the orientation of the cutting object logic shifts from using one big object to cut out the main room space and several small objects to form the opening to explore through using a couple of shapes that are oriented to cross and touch each other, using their intersection to form the main room space and small openings created when the individual shape intersects with the outer shape. the bottom right corner is the final version of the new orientation logic.
This elevation view shows the door opening carved out by the sphere, and the small (left) and big (right) skylights formed by the intersection of the outer hemisphere and inner cylinder shape. And the opening exposes the irregular wall thickness created when using a rounded shape to cut out shapes on another rounded shape. The dashed line shows the profile of the inner room space that form by cut out of the partially overlapped cylinder and cone shape.
This series of section sketches is a further demonstration of exploring relationships between different shapes and their orientation to carve out openings to form the space mentioned in the evaluation sketches. the top left to top right shows the shift between the choice of cutting object shape, and from top to bottom shows the change in cutting object orientation logic, and through the section cut sketches, various inner space spacial relationships created by the new orientation logic are tested.
This section cut is at an angle that cut through where all three objects for carve of the inner shape and opening intersect, which demonstrates the relationship between the doorway opening, internal room space, and the big opening on the surface.