The Coffee Buzz: Vinci School Scheme Brainstorming
8:41 PMThis past week has really, truly felt like studio all over again!
For work, I'm on a team of 3 (now expanded to 5) under Meejin and Eric, my bosses, brainstorming scheme ideas for the school in China I mentioned last week. Eric came up with a type of branching aggregation scheme that I'm in charge of developing.
Monday I spent designing different types of aggregation into branching schemes. I had the original, which I made multiple iterations of, but I also explored using a triangular shape and a hexagonal shape to make into branching-like schemes. I didn't finish developing them until midnight that night!
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| The top two pictures are the schemes in plan (branching, triangular aggregation, and hexagonal aggregation) and the lower two are those schemes in 3d. |
Tuesday I spent making quick mass models of these iterations, along with all of Yoonhee's (my project manager, one of the 3 on the team working on this project) schemes, by lasercutting thick museum board and stacking them. We had an internal meeting at 3 pm, and we ended up deciding to stick with the original branching scheme instead of the aggregated triangles or hexagons.
Meejin wanted us to develop a Grasshopper tool (Grasshopper is a graphic coding software specifically designed for Rhino) that could help us make quick iterations of the tree paths (you can see one of the paths I drew in the first picture, top left corner), so Alexis (the other member of our team, a graduate student at MIT for architecture) and I worked primarily on that tool on Wednesday. I then took our tool to make quick iterations, then offset them to make the actual scheme. I also tried to insert the program to see if it fits.
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| The top shows examples of the grasshopper iterations, and the bottom shows one of many of the program studies |
On Thursday, we had another internal meeting where we decided I should continue to work on the branching scheme, but maybe manually drawing the paths instead of using the Grasshopper generated paths. We came up with a bunch of different ways to draw these paths, and Eric gave me a children's book called "Drawing Trees" which actually ended up being super helpful. I now have a bunch of sketches in my sketchbook that I need to digitize this weekend.
Other things that happened this week:
Catherine, Veronica, and I decided to go biking on the Minuteman trail last Sunday! We took the T to Alewife and biked to Lexington, then decided to bike back instead of the rest of the trail so Catherine could go to a bar to watch the US game against Portugal.
Speaking of which, have any of you been participating in McDonald's Peel Play Olé Olé? We've all been getting large fries and chicken nuggets for it! I really hope Catherine can get tickets for her and her brother!
Lastly, I decided that visiting my friend in New York sounded like a great idea, so I took Friday off from work (which worked out great, since I worked so many extra hours Monday and Tuesday, and will be working more hours this weekend) and traveled to the Big City! I'm sitting in her room typing away at this very moment, as she looks up where a good place to go shopping is.
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