Self Portraits

Assignment: For the next five days draw/ create a self portrait twice a day. On the fifth day Friday, October 5, present your presentations in an installation that enhances our understanding of you.



The idea behind my self portrait was to emphasis parts of my personality and where I am from. The self portraits that you see are taken from actual pictures of me and some are done in collage form.





The last two photos show my attempt at trying to capture the urban city life of DC through graffiti. Some of the words represent my personalities as well.

HKS Inc.

After 65 years of services, HKS Inc. is one of the top architecture firms in the country. Doing work ranging from airports, churches to sports venues has allowed for them to be awarded numerous awards. There specialities include interior design, architecture, and planning services.

There website is characterized by organization and color. With a gray, red, and white background, their website finds a way to keep you interested. With a very interactive site, the viewer is able to view photographs of the company's portfolio. Their portfolio showcases their work ranging from commercial work to residential homes and apartments. You are also able to view the firms history, as well as, news concerning the firm.

Overall, I enjoyed viewing this website. The strongest area of this site is its interactiveness. Each page keeps the viewer engages as they navigate their way through the site. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate this website an 8.

www.hksinc.com

HOK Architects

HOK Architects s one of the best architecture firms recognized worldwide. Ranked as the #1 Architectrural/ Engineering Firms by News-Record in April of 2007. HOK has 26 regional offices across four countries. In the year 2006, HOK grossed over $475.8 million.

HOK's website is a combination of sophistication and organization. With the color black as the backdrop throughout the site, you are welcomed with photographs of their work. The site is divided into three sections: idea, work, and firm profile. Under ideas you are able to see HOK's respons to sustainable design. Under work you get to see photographs of their work ranging from architecture, education facilities, to sport event venues.

My favorite section of this site was the retail section o the work portfolio. These photographs showcase HOK's creativitya dn variety. With each building being drastically different from the others you are able to get a sense of HOK's versatilty as designers.

Overall I would rank this site on a scale of 1 to 10 as an 8. Although it does a great job of displaying the companies work, there is something about this website that did not keep me captivated. But as a firm they do great work

Gensler Architecture Firm

One of the best in the nation with offices in over 28 cities, they have been in business for over 20 years. Combining fashion and architecture to create modern, fun, and timeless structures and interiors.




This website is filled with bright attractive colors that will keep the internet surfer captivated. From slideshows of the work from every aspects of architecture including workplaces, retail stores, to airports. You will not get tired of looking through this website.



With links that lead you to information about careers, contact information, and history of the firm, there is also a link that leads you to the magazine Dialogue This link allows you to read some articles in their current issue as well as old.

Overall this was a very interactive website with great photos exhibiting your work. On a scale of one to ten this website would be a perfect 10.

Met@m0rPopHo$i$

In class assignment: create 10 thumbnail sketches/models of potential "middle-mixes" of the two projects.



These were just me playing around with some ideas...I found this to be quite a challenge because you don't want to recreate what has already been done nor do you one to settle on the easiest idea you come up with because that means someone else could come up with it too...but never the less these were just some ideas for the project





Metamorphosis Project:
Molly's Pencil Box:
Memory: Picking Raspberries;
Colors: Dark Red and Green;
Shape: Square

Pencil Box:
Shape: Rectangular
Mechanical Operation: Top fits over bottom
Colors: Black/White with Newspaper covering

Nacarra's Memory Box
Memory: 3 becomes 1
Colors: Turquoise and Gold
Shape: Made up of triangles

Pencil Holder:
Shape: Circular like a purse
-Uses magnets as closure
Colors: used purple and green on final
black and white floral style paper on other iterations

The assignment:
Choose two 3-dimensional projects to work with: one from the person listed directly above you and one from the person listed directly below you on the Interior Architecture Blog.folio link list. Experiment to see what occurs as these projects evolve into one another.

Shoes...What a Memory

The Assignment: To create a container the either represents or evokes a memory.

My memory: I was involved in a fashion battle my junior year in high school...It was the first time we had ever done anything like this so the odds of winning were slim, but we shocked everyone when we one first place. The theme of our show was the movie Saw 2...We wore punk rock inspired clothing. My outfit consisted of a neon orange tutu like skirt with a black lace top...we covered the top in butterflies...The container I decided to make that represents this event was a stiletto shoe..the shoe will also represent some of my outfit that I wore that night.

Trial and error: Doing this project was very interesting...my first model i used matte board to construct the entire shoe...of course it turned out terrible...after showing it to my teachers to get some ideas on different materials I was instructed to try and use either plastic or foam...I tried the foam and it worked...by doing a total of four interations...This is my best yet...tell me what you think...

Interior Enviroments Zine

Pictutes from House Beautiful September and August 2007 Issues.

Doing this assignment was a great way to get your design research done...When doing the design research for interior environments, I found out alot by just looking through magazines...One important lesson that I learned from just looking through different pictures is that neutrals are great colors. Although very basic and we tend to not look at them as real colors, they are great colors. In the environments I picked for my zing, they did a great job of using neutrals to create a clean and crisp feel that will always be in style...timeless design. When color was used in these neutral designs, color was used only to accent the room. The color may have been used in pillows or floral arrangements...subtle but great ways to put color in a room without overpowering the room.

When I went to look for rooms with a strong sense of color, I found that these rooms used a single color but different shades and textures of color. I am a person that loves color but is realizing that color is not always needed. Certain items are good items to use to bring color into a room such as curtain and furniture. What I found in the rooms that were dominated with color that most of the time the walls were done with a subtle shade of color or either a white wall.