Monday 27 October 2008

'Nine' Curiosities

Curiosity: 1
Behaviour: Nomad
LIFE STYLE: Live / Migration / Activities with environment
A kind of mobile lifestyle in different environments / the definition of nomad can reflect on other issues.

Curiosity: 2
Ideas of ‘Topology’ : from the principle of fashion design industries
"Topology, often called "flexible geometry", is characterized and symbolized by the viewpoint that a circle and a triangle are equal.”......... Eri Matsui

Curiosity: 3
The process (time) in ecology of animation - using ways to record the process
"Animation is a term that differs from motion, while motion implies movement and action, animation implies the evolution of a form and its shaping forces."......... Greg Lynn

Curiosity: 4
The movement or figure of organism or plant or human beings
Observe the principle of movement which are from human being’s figure or creatures or natural phenomenon then transform it as the prototype of structure

Curiosity: 5
The definition of field and boundary
Based on the previous thought, the work of ‘self-portrait workshop’, it discovers the field which we identify from sense between human and the environment and notate it.

Curiosity: 6
Visual camouflage
As the pictures, The blank check (Magritte) and the below one, it make characters in the frames and environments hard recognise or reorganise a new vision by using the visual skill (effects).

Curiosity: 7
The interaction of dynamic events
Caused by communications between Human and other creatures

Curiosity: 8
Ecology in-between the Nature and the Urban environment
Imagination link with social phenomenon
phenomenon: Social events / Crowds

Curiosity: 9
The eco-issue
Science knowledge connects with human beings and environment – recycle / the system of using environment / destruction of ecology
For example: human’s bone can clean the water / the image of rain forest suffers economical impact

Sunday 26 October 2008

Week_1 Works

Three environments line drawing
From left to right : SWAMP, FOREST , CLIFF
I think I misunderstood the requirment for A1drawings.
I guess it shound use some 'translation' from my thoughts for this three.
Therefore, the result become too abstract.
In this case, I used the desity of lines to represent 'the different level of terrain' of three environment. And then it also repsents 'boundary', 'speed', and 'agile' of environment.
Finally, the banding lines which is continous and dynamic show the 'agile' movement of environment.
It's a kind of dynamic motion in these three sites and also represents from low to hight speed when beings shuttle there.

Friday 24 October 2008

the Workshops : Self -portrait & Situation drawing

SELF-PORRAIT ‘My boundary, my field’
This project aims to find an individual way to portrait one of my characteristic for others. Every day we have a number of chances to connect with crowds on the Tube, in bus stop and underground station, staying in a square, in classroom and so on. For me, crowds have an important meaning for me because I would like to stay with people and do my works then feel somebody around me. However, I can feel my space is changing. This is not because of the real architectural space. It’s based on the people who are around or pass me. The crowds defined my field or boundary (we also say space). Therefore, I tried to identify the boundary which I stay in and using the camera and sketch to record the people who have the identify meaning of my boundary. In this case, the crowds are not all the people surround me and it means I can remember at every recording time. So, I choose three places which I usually stay everyday to record – the court yard of UCL accommodation, the main entrance of UCL, the Kings cross station Final presentation – I made a ‘boundary portfolio’. It shows the segments which record every 30 seconds the people who are surround me and I can record. Also, over lapping segments shows my field when I am in that place. This project let me recognize the perception of the field which I belong and rethinking how to portrait things in the different aspects.
Situation Drawing
Firstly, projecting the adjacent situation, which is above and below my desk, is regard as clues on the paper to record the environment surrounding me. And then adding the elements of graphic information system and flyer markings in the situation paper aims to reorganise and redefine the linear spaces on the paper. This is for representing a kind of site condition under certain situation.
The other step is to draw the sections and elevations of the door pivot in the studio, and then to add the perspective of one part of it. The sections and elevations are reformed and reconstructed to represent a structure of a ‘building’ (plan and section).
Finally, decomposing the ‘site’ and inserting the ‘building’ by considering the condition of the site and the building. It presents a high-tension structure which is suspended in between the two sites at a high level. The information signals and the lines on the site are used as a hint to connect the ‘building’ and the site.

Tuesday 21 October 2008

Browsing and thinking

Magritte_The blank check - Camouflage ?


Multi-Touch Interaction
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.




Sunday 19 October 2008

Open eye

ERI MATSUI
Topology, often called "flexible geometry,"is characterized and symbolized by the viewpoint that a circle and a triangle are equal.

LUNAR LONGING
In the October 18, 1952, issue of Collier's, von Braun imagines man's first trip to the moon. He sketched out the "orbit-to-orbit space ship," which he designed to transport people from a space station to lunar orbit. The 190-foot- (58-meter-) tall spaceship houses 50 astronauts in its top sphere. The ship carries a radio dish for communication and a "solar mirror" for energy. Von Braun wrote that the sun's heat would vaporize the element mercury to drive a generator.



FUTURE BOUND
"3-Stage Satellite Vehicle" shows a 24-story rocket ship weighing 7,000 tons (the equivalent of about 1,400 elephants).