DSDN112 - Project 1 - Research - Sound

The idea of how we interact with sound on a subconscious level is beginning to interest me, and we investigated this with sound and object association. I also like the idea of absence of sound. Below is a video about the worlds quietest room. It is used to conduct part of medical examinations astronauts need to go through before going into space. Like this room, there is no sound in space. Spending long amounts of time in a soundless environments can cause immense strains on your mental health, and people have recorded hearing voices or other tricks of the mind in a soundless environment. 

DSDN111 - Project 2 - Precedence Investigation

Microscopic Asbestos Fibers

Peter Eisenman's City of Culture of Galicia

Xray Of The Human Brain - Highlighting Bloodflow

Ross Lovegrove's Solar Tree

Through exploring the influence of organic and synthetic formations on modern design and architecture i have come across two designs i feel have been directly influenced by the algorythmic repitition and complexity of these designs. Peter Eisemans City of Culture of Galicia shows a direct reflection of the complex algorythmic angular form found in Asbestos fibers and other microscopic synthetic formations. There is also a direct resemblance between the formation of artiries in the human brain and Ross Lovegroves Solar tree. Both designers seemed to have obtained influence from complect organic/synthetic formations, enabling them to show strong angular and fluid form in their designs.  

101 & 111 Precedence - Le Corbusier - Balance & Rhythm in Modernism

 Secretariat Building, Chandigarh

Palace of Justice, Chandigarh

 Le Corbusier was at the forefront of modernism and stylizes his work around this design movement. Modern architecture set to remove any unnecessary detail and strip a design back to its bones to highlight the notion that form follows function. Just like modern architecture, modernism in design seeks to remove any unnecessary details or intricacies. The design principals that make modernism effective in these two pieces are balance and rhythm. The balance, i believe in both designs comes from the uses of primarily vertical and horizontal lines. Rhythm is then able to play off this principal by the repetition of the many squares and rectangles created by the initial balance of the design. The way Le Corbusier has allowed these two principals of design to work harmoniously has inspired me to integrate them into my 101 copy/transform: identity work aswell as my 111 Information   
  aesthetics 3D card construction model.