This is the concept for the project so far. It is whole to whole relationships that we are studying, as well as cuteness. For the idea of cute we selected the cuteest thing imaginable,.......a rabbit or bunny! With this cute unit we intend to build the park so it will be a park literally made of cuteness..jpg)
This is the overall organizational concept for the park..jpg)
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The functions spread out from the park onto buildings and out onto the sidewalk.
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I think that there are some thing we have to discuss about your project:
ReplyDeleteit seems that there are a couple of misunderstandings:
We were talking a lot about literal translations – and that we are not interested in them in our studio.
so the idea - I want to do something cute – so I make a rabbit – is exactly what I'm not supporting in the studio because it is a bit of an easy shortcut. I wanted you to analyze the three postings I sent you in a more rigorous (or scientific) way because I think that it really helps you to understand and to broaden your toolset as a designer.
but let us see it that way:
Now you know how to design a cute rabbit. You should have analyzed what differentiates a cute from a not cute rabbit. The next step would be how to make a form that is cute without having the overall shape of a rabbit.
I will try to help you anyways. If you want to stick with the bunny metaphor (and I think you can and should, also because there is not much time) you should work on the spatial dimension of it. At the moment it is a bit flat and you want to work on the the proportions of your design.
But more than anything else your project wants to be way more concerned now how you treat your surface (SURFACE ARTICULATION)
there is no way around it now: you were avoiding this problem all the time and always started a new design when your overall design reached this point. ;)
Now there is no way back:
first: work on the shapes - i know you can make them even cuter (really start to analyze the geometry and proportions of cute 3D animes and stuffed animals etc etc)
second: you can emphasize the cuteness by how you treat them and if your design is over-cute you can even start to work against it by giving it a black rubber spikes as texture (but real 3D no texture maps) etc.
start having fun with the things you create ;)
Dear Sandra,
ReplyDeleteI hope that the latest posting show that we are going more into that direction. I do realize that the rabbit metaphor was kitsch and very literal. For a while I was really interested in flirting with kitsch and Pop Art (Jeff Koons silver rabbit comes to mind) but now I'm moving away from that and to more abstract things. And the final project I believe will be more about surface articulation, materials, texture, light and not about creation of space. Also to give you an idea of the direction I am going right now, I pased a link to an article about a SuperFoam Chair by Rich Gilbert http://www.dezeen.com/2009/10/27/superfoam-chair-by-rich-gilbert/