A STATEMENT ON STUDIO

To me studio is the class in which i learn the most, about design, about spaces, and about myself. I have developed incredibly throughout the four studios that i've had and i'm excited to develop even further. At this point in time i feel a little lost. In this studio i would like to further develop my own personal style. I want to develop a strong confidence in my design style. I believe this will happen if i continue to explore the different design styles across space and time and see what appeals to me, and what doesn't.

PATTERNS from inspiration

The patterns that take inspiration from fish scales can be absolutely gorgeous. Some examples of this are roof tiles, and glass ceramic tiles.

PRECEDENT STUDY

When initially thinking about this project the idea of a fish scale was appealing. I took inspiration from a chandelier of glass blown fish. The way it reflects light, it's movement, and it's color scheme all interested me. I have included a few images of similar chandeliers as examples of the chandelier i chose. A fish scale connects to nature as the culture did during the bungalow house frenzy, there are a lot of great color schemes that can come from a fish scale, there is a kind of translucency associated with fish scales, and many great patterns stem from the formation of fish scales.

Fish scales was too direct of a metaphor so in search for a better concept I further researched the physical features of fish scales and their development. Some of the information i found interested me.Scales vary enormously in size, shape, structure, and extent, ranging from rigid armor plates in fishes such as shrimpfishes and boxfishes, to microscopic or absent in fishes such as eels and anglerfishes. The morphology of a scale can be used to identify the species of fish they came from.

Fish scales are produced from the mesoderm layer of the dermis, which distinguishes them from reptile scales. The same genes involved in tooth and hair development in mammals are also involved in scale development.

Placoid Scales

The outermost layer is composed of vitrodentine, a largely inorganic enamel-like substance. Placoid scales cannot grow in size, but rather more scales are added as the fish increases in size.

Cosmoid Scales

were probably derived from a fusion of placoid scales.

Cosmoid scales increase in size through the growth of the lamellar bone layer.

Granoid Scales

Most are diamond-shaped and connected by peg-and-socket joints.

Cycloid and ctenoid scales

cycloid scales have smooth margins, while ctenoid scales have tiny teeth called ctenii on the posterior edge that give them a rough texture.

In flatfishes, some species have ctenoid scales on the eyed side and cycloid scales on the blind side, while other species have ctenoid scales in males and cycloid scales in females.

Ctenoid scales can be further subdivided into three types:

▪ In crenate scales, the margin of the scale bears indentations and projections.

▪ In spinoid scales, the scale bears spines that are continuous with the scale itself.

In "true" ctenoid scales, the spines on the scale are distinct structures.

Cycloid and ctenoid scales are overlapping, making them more flexible than cosmoid and ganoid scales. They grow in size through additions to the margin, creating bands of uneven seasonal growth called annuli (singluar annulus). These bands can be used to age the fish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_scale

THE GREAT HOMES TOUR

First Project

After learning more of Revit through the tutorials we were asked to re-design a space of our choosing and model it in Revit. I am using the studio apartment that we designed in Jake Tucci's class and adding a second floor to it that acts as the bedroom.

Revit

In class we've been working with a computer program called revit. In order to better learn the program we were given three sections of a tutorial to go through...this is a product of the first and second part of the tutorial.

Response to First Article

(Upon viewing my blog this afternoon i realized that my internet cutting out made it so that my response was not visible. Please know that i had my response up by class on the twenty seventh)

Learning the origins of something that your passionate about is always not only interesting, but important. “Computing in Architectural Design” explains the origins of perspective and it’s influence on structural forms, and also gives a relatively detailed explanation of the origins of computer aided design programs. Even in 1963 a professor at MIT, Ivan Sutherland, envisioned the makings of the programs we use today. This notion is absolutely incredible. He was thinking WAY beyond his years to technology that we beginning to use today. His vision of “a designer seated at a console, drawing a sketch of his proposed device on the screen of an oscilloscope tube with a “light pen,” modifying his sketch at will, and commanding the computer slave to refine the sketch into a perfect drawing, to perform various numerical analyses,” is absolutely mind blowing. This is technology that we are refining to do just as he envisioned, and it’s fifty years in the future. What will we be doing fifty years from today? These programs are revolutionary and change the way that people function today. It’s difficult for people living now to understand how people lived a hundred years before us, but just think about how people a hundred years from now will view how we live our lives.