Environment Design
Concept Statement
For this project I sought to create an artificial environment from an everyday appliance. I started out deconstructing a fan and built the separate pieces in FormZ, a 3D imaging software. From there I built an environment from my pieces. I revised my design through various virtual and pysical models such as FormZ, cardboard, and foam board after critiquing each one. Finally rendering my final model in FormZ.
I wanted to design an interactive and exciting space while staying true to the fan from which the space evolved. Each previous model helped in the evolution of my design by sharpening these concepts into my final model. I incorporated a radial symmetry with intersecting and overlapping planes to connect each space to another on the environment. I brought the ceiling plane down at an angle giving my environment a triangular profile. This allowed my vertical walls to retain a fan shape. The result of my study is an environment that plays with walking planes that engages other planes above, below, or across the environment.
I wanted to design an interactive and exciting space while staying true to the fan from which the space evolved. Each previous model helped in the evolution of my design by sharpening these concepts into my final model. I incorporated a radial symmetry with intersecting and overlapping planes to connect each space to another on the environment. I brought the ceiling plane down at an angle giving my environment a triangular profile. This allowed my vertical walls to retain a fan shape. The result of my study is an environment that plays with walking planes that engages other planes above, below, or across the environment.