Monday, September 10, 2007

pattern & geometry

The design research phase continues and you will accumulate 2D patterns, which form the genetic pool to generate evolutions of material systems later on. The field of exploration of geometries and patterns covers an open range along today’s discussion.

Analysis and representation methods chosen are in a first step digital images and adjacent diagrams uncovering the underlying geometry as a 2D figure. Individual sets of selected geometries and patterns are chosen depending on their different rules of repetition and multiplication. What is the inherent principle according to which the single module proliferates.

Magic number: choose 5

Reading: Schmidt, Patterns in Design; Agile Rabbit series;

“Do you not see the greatness of our age resides in our very inability to create new ornament? We have gone beyond ornament, we have achieved plain, undecorated simplicity. Behold, the time is at hand, fulfillment awaits us. Soon the streets of the cities will shine like white walls” Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime (1908)

Adolf Loos dogma, postulated a century ago, established a modernist style code to be reassessed by entering into the realm of ornate pattern.

Print:
-2D development in -36x48 “ sheets
Digital:
2D development in .pdf in - letter size, saved in folder.



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