So here we are in the masters program at SIU finishing up
thesis work and class work and the future lies on the horizon. and it is a bit
daunting to be perfectly honest. Thesis work, 20 page paper to write, jobs to
look for, jobs to continue in the midst of all of this other work. It almost
seems too big to handle and too much to do, but I have a bit of advice for
everyone which I have discovered myself while also toiling in this soup of
stress, and that is to just take it a day at a time, or to take it one step at
a time, or insert here on of the other various sayings noting the same or
similar message.
That being said I would like to share with all of you what I
have been working on for the past few months in my graduate career here at SIU.
One of the more interesting projects which I have completed for my ARC 532
Global Architecture History class consisted of choosing a structure of a
non-western nature, physically
constructing it, and documenting that process. Now with my interest in bringing back more of
the mathematical and geometric side that seems to have become diluted in much
of architecture today, I chose my structure to be what is called a Jali or
jaali, (Hindi:जाल).
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The geometric patterning and the mathematics and geometry
behind Islamic art and architecture fascinate me. And while the the project was
interesting to me in that regards, it was even more interesting to me in the
notion that I wanted to use a new method of delivery for the presentation of
this project which I had, until recently, been ignorant of. So I felt it was
time to learn Adobe Premiere. This is a video editing software that I chose to
learn and use for the required documentation of the project. I was excited to
use it and was fairly please with my outcome. As I do not regularly post videos
online I do not have a way of showing you the final product…yet. I do plan on
adding a link later that will take you to the video I had created. For now here
are some final construction images…
Additionally I have been working on quite a bit of thesis
work which seems to be ever-evolving [as I believe a good thesis should]. Here
are some development images of that as well…
While finding out that my initial approach was perhaps not
the appropriate one I did learn I should probably take a bottom up approach
where I focus on the design of the components first and let that lay the
framework for the rest of the design. The plan now consists of incorporating
specific lighting calculation that will influence the design as well as address
how the overall design meets the ground and the sky. Additionally the materiality
will be extremely important to the project components as well as the project as
a whole.
That’s all for now, more next time.
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