Still here...

I'm still at school. I'm doing a presentation downtown tomorrow and will miss more than half the day of work, so I need to get something finished tonight.

I've been thinking about the ways I've been culling the ambiguous sectional moments, and decided that it was worth another look. I want to produce another matrix that deals with environment (like envelope, shelter from rain, shelter from sun and accessibility), so I've removed all of the 'envelope' category from the previous group. This means that I don't have as many options, but at this point that is a good thing.

I've re-culled the remaining sections by picking a representative from each kind of combination. If I take them into Maya and loft them, I can then look at how they can address environmental conditions.

The architect of my own destruction?

I spent a little while last night thinking about what my next step should be for my midterm and I realized that I haven't fully made the transition out of the ambiguous sectional conditions into three-dimensions. I'm still looking for how and why the sections should be assembled.

Since I don't want to apply programs yet and it's also too early for environmental conditions, I thought I would go ahead and do another matrix. I went ahead and culled them, getting a total of 17 conditions, so I'm going to go ahead and cross each of them together and look at what that produces. I can then maybe look at combining them in the x and y direction, adding weather protection, and think about normalizing the slope. There are certain ramifications of altering the product of two conditions to get a 1:12 slope for accessibility, or a steeper slope for seating and I don't want to make those decisions lightly.

On a side note, it's been strange working this week because since it is reading week there are very few people in the studio. Even the keeners seem to be working from home, so it's chilly and a little lonely here.