9.01.2010

summer project list


-drawings
· large site plan (show potential for large-scale implementation)
· site plan (fisherman's hut? juxtaposition of high and low tech)
· sectional rendered diagram (functionality of oyster in situ)
· perspective rendering (rain for mood?)


-print specifications
· black + white (grayscale)
· arch d (24x36), trimmed?
· 1" margin
· strathmore or bristol
· pre-purchase sheets from blick, utrecht, hollanders?


· potential for hand-laid color


-model materials
· plaster-cast + fired porcelain clay for bunker-mech-elec shelter?
· silicone rubber?
· starch model for oyster?
· clear plastic acrylic scrap for water?

8.14.2010

most of the readings have been completed and recorded with thoughts, and special words have been plucked out and set apart and defined. i feel as though the pieces are coming together, yet much is still nebulous — the basics about this summer thesis project have yet to be articulated. i have been gathering much, however. i plan soon to test some routed plaster casts to use with wet porcelain clay for the physical model. as of right now, the readings come first. in a week i will be driving south, to spend time near the ocean. i hope to flesh out this skeleton project there, and draw a little...