more doggy time

i couldn't resist.  more to come.

doggy time

working on something.  these are some progress renders.  eventually i'll finish it all up and post the video that goes along with it [from it].

time to work

the final presentation for our summer studio is this friday, the 6th [stop by if you want] - i have a lot of work ahead of me.
until i have something interesting to post, i'll just throw up a few of my modular unit drawings [in elevation].  these little systems are intended emulate the possibilities of the transforming the structure as a whole based on the minute movements of each individual component.  the distance between units will be controlled via servos at each 'leg' and somehow they will illustrate an expansion and contraction of the collection.
i sent for the laser cuts this afternoon, so the actual physical model will come later this week.  [i know these are not pretty, but they'll do for now]

rendering mies

another tutorial for digital craft.  this time on materiality. 
note: the model itself is kinda crappy because it was the first one i ever built [for the first tutorial this semester]

model for the night

the result of hours of toying around in grasshopper.  it isnt quite there yet, but hopefully it will be there soon

 

saturday

in the red

coming from california i never got to experience a red zone storm.  now i have, and it was nuts.

the never never installation

for studio we had to come up with an 'installation' for our final presentation.  after going back and forth we came up with this sort of design.  while it was not the best design in the world, we felt it had a few good qualities.  but, alas, it will never be.  instead we will make a much simpler version [images of that will come as we make it].
here are renders of that first possible installation:

kira qwan is:

photoshop > rhino > illustrator > photoshop

.. and the same kind of thing using grasshopper

grasshopper > rhino > max

nightly digital exercise

a parametric bridge of sorts made in max

i'm awesome

i tried to make a little something in afterEffects. it may be useless, but looks neat. better videos to come in the future.




and then there is this little number - testing particle simulations
music by the ever amazing will stratton

desktop background

celebrate jr.

megan strikes again

some key images - courtesy of the moon

this prettymuch sums it up.

more of the children's center

more updated renders for the assignment [2.75 hours late though]

children's activity center

another digital craft assignment: modeling a building
i chose phooey architect's children's activity center in melbourne, australia.
better renders to come.

 

july 4th

images from the day.

barcelona chair tutorial

a render from the barcelona chair tutorial [for digital craft class]
done in max [while listening to some awesome music - jenny's pandora mix of: joe purdy radio, macy gray radio, the ambiguous 'great station,' and paula abdul radio]

"its architecture"

another grasshopper run

this one is about changing the overall form by using an attractor on the top curve of the surface.  the rest is filled in after the manipulation.  [note: i could not figure out how to perform a proper sweep.  next time]

city collages