[not so] exquisite corpse house.

full blogging on this later.

the challenge: convert a mega suburban mansion into a home that houses a parent + child, a bachelor, and a couple. Continue

hey guys, just checking in to let you know i just got done with a fancy web-conference with THESE GUYS. more to come later on this year's d n t workshop at su.
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d & t massacre

assignment: take away the surfaces in the photo and re-create the social situation. with 5 other people whose skills you don't know and whose skills you can't identify. and two of them don't talk. when they do talk, they don't look at you in the eye (mild social disorders?).
p.s. 30 hrs to get it done, with the only crit 2 hrs after the assignment done over a computer conference system.

when life gives you lemons, ignore them.

my first d & t was a pretty awful experience. you can choose teams, but for some reason i was willing to go pot-luck. and i got some bad potato salad, if you know what i mean....

so naida and i's response was basically to produce on our own, and just make it happen. turns out it's not a huge deal if whatever the end product is can't be built. the result is an "emergent scape" which deforms according to density. the roof is supposed to be some sort of inflatable fabric structure caught between pipes? who knows. i just wanted to show you guys this stuff, though it will never be resloved.


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work = more work

donzo for nowzo. (read below to find out about the d & t workshop and studio WEATHERS)

(up) "Wanderings is in pursuit of a 'climatic infrastructure' for commercial and public domains that augments and re-configures existing external micro-climates for occupation and programmatic use. "

on to the design + technology workshop! a biannual 36 hour charette featuring critic Sean Lally from the w-e-a-t-h-e-r-s office out of chicago. check it out. it is pretty great stuff.

teams are made up of 2 returning grads, 2 adv standing, and 2 newbies.
group work, here i come.
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