Jenga 3.0

Rendering in Photoshop

For this exercise, we started with a wireframe provided and had to render it completely on photoshop.

"jenga" 3.0 narrative

“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting” –Andy Warhol

Three spaces coming together to form a new space that is emotional, uprising, and has an overall buildup of anticipation. These three apartments revolve around the concepts of kiss, seduction, and well up. The layout of this complex consists of three identical units placed at a 45° angle in a line. An elongated ellipse encompasses these units at the ground level and is repeated at 15 feet and a third at 31 feet to reach the tallest peak of the complex. This ellipse features a collection of horizontal beams building up to get to the full-planed ellipse at the top. These beams serve to hide the units to an extent to provide a sense of mystery and desire to see more. Looking closer, the enclosure is made up of glass curtains and flooring planes. The middle ellipse at 15’ provides an outdoor public space for the three units to share. This space is intended as a gathering space for all tenants to enjoy in more ways than just traveling between second story units and leaving the complex. The egress of this public space would be a staircase from the ground level that is exposed to the front of the building. This pulls through the conceptual idea of something building up. The other side of this public space would include either another staircase or an elevator. The ground floor ellipse outside of the units is an interior public space enclosed by glass panels, planned to be used mainly for entering and exiting each individual unit and could provide additional space for gathering. Since this space is on the ground level, the egress would simply be exterior doors leading out to parking.

"jenga" 3.0 team proposal

Allure.

Kacie Leisure | Leslie Canipe | Kathryn Frye

TEAM NAME

Allure. A magnet of attraction. Urge. Impel. Inveigle. A gradual reveal of hints leading one to the definitive moment we wish to imply.

THEORETICAL POSITION

The books, which have been read by our group, are “The Hidden Dimension,” “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” and “The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics.”

• The “Hidden Dimension.” Organization of space utilizing appropriate cultural proxemics and their relationship, which is formed through the marriage of these parts.
• The “Death and Life of Great American Cities.” The study of the interrelationships of parts in this combination to reach a substantial whole. Artifacts influence on universe.
• “The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics.” Time changes perception of cultural morality. The reflection and desire of man to echo precedents, deprives attainment of modern demand.

DESIGN APPROACH

Through the combination of our concept words, “kiss,” “deviate,” and “well-up,” we will create an aesthetically pleasing space as we also focus in on the combination of parts to ensure a properly functional and soundly structural piece. Through all stages of our process we will continually explore the principles and elements of design, as the ongoing goal is to achieve as many as possible. In the combination of these three varying spaces, the implication of these strategies will ensure a fluid and unified space, which will essentially draw you throughout in a fluid manner. We believe that in our efforts to do so, we will unveil a marriage of these concepts into one space.

DELIVERABLES

Our digital representation will consist of computer renderings, series of hand drafting, and diagramming with final focus on a proposed floor plan, building sections, and 2 public space perspectives. Tangible space will also be offered through model as we explore the built environment to link our concepts with materiality, texture, and space. In our efforts to create a cohesive presentation we will provide printouts of our entire design to each audience member to ensure a thought provoking and fully engaging conversation

TEAM QUALIFICATIONS

As second year students currently enrolled as majors in Interior Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, we bring common experiences but individual talents to the team, as we will work together to create a strong project in pursuit of quality deliverables.

EXPLICIT DESIGN GOALS

• Combine individual time management skills into a cohesive one for our specific team.
• Adapt skills from other team members in pursuit of becoming stronger designers.
• Become stronger conceptual thinkers.
• Apply empathy towards other members, as “I” becomes a “we.”
• Explore other levels of the design spectrum as we each derive from varying places.
• Being able to orally produce as stimulating responses off paper.
• Full engagement through all aspects of project including those that aren’t demanded.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As we have not formerly explored the talents of one other through work, we have vague understanding of each individual’s skill, and we expect our team responsibilities to alter through the course of this project, however we recognize the following advantages from each team member:

Frye: providing conceptual ideas throughout our design process.

Leisure: crafting beautiful composition to showcase our work.

Canipe: forming pristine narrative and digital representational skill.

COLLABORATION

The reason we believe to be a forward evolving, attentive to time and deadline, and virtually dynamic team is our flexibility toward one another and strong will toward our common profession. The question is not to whether we will achieve these goals, but through our confidence how great we can produce the finished product in taking full advantage of our time in studio and outside of. Through team collaboration we believe and obtain high expectations of one another and ourselves through mutual effort.

"Jenga" 2.0

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Friday, January 8^th started the first day of reviews for IAR 202’s project of designing three spaces.

Audra Volpi was one of many that presented that day, sharing her designs based around her challenging concept word: beehive. While off the top of my head I can only think of one form of the meaning of beehive, Audra shared with us three completely different directions of this word. Her first space (32’4” x 11) took the concept of the handmade beehive, using “chest of drawers – like” units made from the kit of parts, two solids. The units pulled out to change the function of the space and add variation. Her 2^nd space she designed is 22’ x 22’ and the concept was the flight of the bee and the pollination process. The kit of parts used was two walls and a column. The walls were curvy with one end of a wall being circular to enclose and hide the bathing area. These curved walls represent the path that bees take in flowers to get to the pollen. Audra’s final space (32’4” x 22’) was cleverly designed around the style of the beehive hairdo, popular in the 1960’s. This style was all about making a grand entrance and making women appear taller. Her space featured two columns and one wall, with a loft and grand staircase. The idea was so the owner would come down the stairs and be hidden by the columns until getting past them and making a grand entrance, just like women with the beehive hairdos did.

Anna Behrendt also presented Friday, showcasing her designs around the concept word: edge. Her three sub-concepts for her spaces were, on the edge, in the edge, and over the edge. Her smallest space used “on the edge” and included her two solids to give the idea that you must walk forward upon entering the unit. Her solids would take the owner on a path that took you to two different sides of the unit. Throughout the paths journey, one would wonder what is to come, and be teased by the little glimpses of the final product. Her second space (22’ x 22’) showed over the edge and included two walls and one column. This space is meant to be confusing to the person who vies it, and things aren’t supposed to seem right. Her final space (32’4” x 22’) is in the edge, which has the kit of parts including two columns and one wall. This space is full of tension and level changes, with steel cables traveling throughout the room as if they are creating even more tension and force in the space. Anna gave a great presentation and had outstanding models. Her axonometric drawings significantly helped explain her ideas.

Anna's final models of the space, "on the edge", "over the edge", and "in the edge". Images found here.

The diagrams I did of Anna's spaces.