Design Manifesto

Assignment:

Step one: research statements about design by two designers or design movements by whom/which you feel inspired.
Step two: write a statement that expresses your own beliefs as you know them at this point.

Step three: create an artifact that expresses, contains, or celebrates your personal statment.

Concept Statement

“The architect…must be looked upon as something much more than a designer of buildings- lovely, elegant, charming, and efficient- though they may be. His greater role is that of being the delineator, the definer, the engraver of the history of his time.”

-Eugene Raskin, Architecture and People, 1974

As designers we are to understand the wants of the client, and the deeper meanings that lie within those wants and desires. The same way colors have special meanings, so do the desires of our clients have special meanings. These meanings can be achieved through and by adding color to a space like during the time of the cubist and destijl movements, colors were chosen to highlight or achieve a certain mood or feeling. This continues to apply in design today. We as designers are forced to thing outside the box of mediocrity and design extraordinary designs for clients by seeing the deeper meaning within their desire and needs.at expresses, contains, or celebrates your personal statement.

Iar 212 Assignment 1

The design world has come a long way thanks to the constant progression of the computer. Without the computer, occupations such as architecture, interior design, and engineering would still be using some of the same time consuming practices that our predecessors used. But realizing how much we rely on computers in our field raises the question of what will the future hold?

The use of the computer in the design world brings both positives and negatives. The positives of having computers to figure out the complexities of our design are that it opens the door for more creativity. With the steady progression of computers, out design creativity has very few limits. Some of the negatives of using computers so heavily are that we as designers loose the basic hand skills once used in drafting and designing. We become mentally handicapped because we no longer can calculate certain measurements and dimensions on our own.

Rendering

Assignment: We had to take the rendering techniques learned in class and rendered the space.

Below: Rendered space with concrete walls and a red marble floor.

Below: Rendered space with maple/birch wood paneling and a blue tiled floor.

Below: Rendered space with a brick wall and dark wood floor.

Throwup sheet: Shelter Bus

Assignment: Create a throwup sheet that shows some of your ideas and planning for the shelter bus II on a 11x17 layout.

Katrina's Bus Shelter Redone

Assignment: To take one of the four finalist designs and make revisions to their design.

Here is our design done by Ben.



I was responsible for doing some of the construction drawings for the design.

Oasis: Shelter Bus

Assignment: To create a mobile residence for 4 hurricane relief workers. At least one component of the shelter must rotate, slide, fold out or transform.

Deliverables: Concept statement, programmatic diagram, 4 cross sections, 2 longitudinal sections, one detail drawing.

landmark: bus/shelter

The assignment: design a bus shelter for the GTA bus stop adjacent to the Weatherspoon Art Museum on Tate St. Deliverables: Concept Statement, material investigation, detail drawing, and model.












Concept Statement:

The objective of this design is to create an inventive and dynamic bus shelter that is attractive to the Greensboro Transit Authority and its riders. The concept of my design is nature, visual aesthetic, and function. These three elements have been combined to create a bus shelter that is eye catching while not taking away from the local vernacular of Tate St. and the Weatherspoon Museum.

Inspired by the triangular columns of the Weatherspoon Museum and the surrounding landscape, the shape of the bus shelter takes on a triangular shape. Three individual triangles have been combined to create a sense of community while creating the overall bus shelter. Taking its surrounding landscape into play, the goal of the design was to bring in nature. The abstract designs on the windows have been taken from the abstract patterns created from the intertwining of the leaves and branches of the surrounding trees. Such abstract patterns result in a visual aesthetic not found in many bus shelters.

The third goal of this design was function. Not only did I want to add more seating, but also I wanted to add a level of security and comfort to this bus shelter. To ensure more security, the windows with the abstract patterns will be solar powered windows that light up at night. This provides for a higher sense of security being that the bus stop is located between trees. Not only does this provide more security but comfort. Taking comfort even a step further more seating was added as well as a color scheme that evokes relaxation. The color light blue gives a sense of comfort, peace, and relaxation, which are all important to GTA riders after having such a long day from work.