PinenaPaya Family
HYBER for life

In collaboration with Naomi Scully

Instructor: Emily White
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Course brief : 

 

This course emphasizes the generative potentials and mutual influence among various modes of representation. Students will work with diagrams, 2D images, 3D physical and virtual models and photography to develop spatial compositions. We will develop a vocabulary of shape, pattern, color, texture, structure and material to navigate between the highly analytical and the lusciously abstract. Our point of departure is the diagram. In its infancy, the diagram acted as a tool for stripping a projects ambition down to its most basic geometric part’. Look no further than the simplistic clarity of Le Corbusier’s “Modulor” analysis of his buildings thorough graphically abstract geometric shapes. While the contemporary approach to the diagram is still firmly rooted in what we might call the “reductively descriptive”, it has also shown its ability to generate design through the collection, manipulation and analysis of various sets of input data. This course will begin by looking to the diagram as a move away from the comfortable methods of literal representation towards the intentional alienation of what we understand to be objective and observed as a way of generating new architectural possibilities.

 

 

Teamed up with Naomi Scully as she was working with a different fruit then we identified the characteristics of each of our fruits. We combined the two to create one idea that would drive the design of our hybrid fruit family. We selected one of the two fruits external surface as the cabinet. Naomi’s papaya and the pineapple formed the perfect “Pinepaya Family”, HYBER for life.