The Box:
The Datum:
The Acrylic System:
It is pretty close to impossible to explain the project in way that people could fully understand it. It is hard enough to explain to people who can see the model and work we have been doing all semester much less someone who has no idea and can't see the model. In my best attempt to help everyone understand, here is what I wrote in my portfolio as a general description of the overall project:
'In this studio, the first of six core studios at LSU, the focus was on the making and unmaking of an object, more specifically a wooden box. The wooden box and associated projects throughout the semester were used to form a solid understanding of one of the key aspects at the heart of the profession of landscape architecture: one must make to unmake. This was the core principle of the studio. The language of the studio was limited to the basic words in the design catalog such as: space, volume, line, rhythm, solid, and void, in an effort to assemble a stable platform for understanding the fundamental language of design.
The meticulous making of the wooden box was followed by an unmaking of the box through a series of extractions, voids, and slices. These newly formed objects, two halves, were then adjoined by a datum to form an environment between the two boxes. Site analysis was conducted on each newly formed site and then, as a studio group, combined together to form a large site, comprised of six different smaller sites. Systems were then introduced to the site to form a highly connected and dynamic relationship between each individual model within the site. The basic design language pushed all of the decisions made throughout the entire process.'
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