Deep surface

air at an unexpected location

With the addition of air, liquids and solids diminish their density. Something homogenous and solid transforms into a loose and perforated structure.

The foam model indicates, that under circumstances yet to be clarified, the dense, the continuous and massive yields an invasion of the void. Air, the element most misunderstood, harvests means and ways to protrude into places, where no one expected its presence.

Even more so, it brings into being strange places, which did not exist before. The process of becoming, is an occasion to watch the subversion of substance. By tradition, we are concerned with the potential to excavate substances and respond with suspicion or even guess transgression not to say perversion.

The aggregation of air filled voids, springs from a questionable victory over the solid, and as a foam like structure, appears to turn upside down the natural order within nature. It seems to be a bastard of material, emerging from an illegitimate marriage of elements. As opposed to this common disrespect of the seemingly vague, the latent, the close to arbitrary, and the irregular, the studio will take the foam model serious and work on a rehabilitation of its inherent processes and expressions.

(images by blush)

In order to complement the widely used methodologies of becoming, such as drift, repetition with difference, processes of catastrophy or creative recombination, we will explore the term explication, in the sense of a discrete move from one condition to the next, like a continuous escape from the status quo.

An important question to answer will be: When does surface become deep?
Do certain techniques accelerate new strategies towards the formation of original organizational structures? Apply one or several of the techniques acquired in the software skills workshops to generate single components of surfaces, further develop and transform them.

You should specifically refer to surface modulations. This means that surfaces get informed or inflected by an extendable variation of interventions on the material and detail level -folded, cutted, sliced, pleated, laminated, layered etc..

(image by sweeney)

Surfaces are initially either smooth or broken, depending on their tangency behavior being continuous or not. Modulations then effect changes in the surface such as folds to foster structural rigidity, or such as weaves of bands supporting each other. Surfaces may be manifold in the beginning or get cut and sliced from an initial larger surface into single elements.

Modulations might be
-bending, slicing, bifurcating as some vertex manipulations.
-Extruding via joining vertex points or doubling
-displacement via translating a selections set of vertices

Assignm. due mon 13 :
3D shape designs of selected parties following individual component design generations.

3D development in 11x17 “ sheet (8 ½ on pdf)