Site Analysis Part Deux

Renee Cheng, AIA Article

Cheng, Renee. Analysis, Research, and Reviews of AEC Technology: Lachmi Khemlani, Ph.D. Questioning the Role of BIM in Architectural Education. AECbytes Viewpoint #26. July 6, 2006. http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2006/issue_26.html.

Holy Model!

Site Analysis Part I

These three images show some of the abstraction process, the editing of resulted forms.

Site Analysis Part I: episodic descriptions of found relationships

These two studies are part of an analysis of a site in Washington D.C. The intent is to analyze the site based on perceived boundaries and the what constitutes those boundaries-- whether it is made up from a series of masses in perspective or a continuous skin of a building, etc. The intended result was to have episodic descriptions of found relationships. The analysis abstracted the language of each boundary and the result shows a series of analyses layered on top of one another. The bottom image is one of the images I pinned up in studio. We had a conversation about an image communicating versus evoking. As the bottom image stands, it is only evoking, but it is not communicating enough about place or Washington D.C. In the upper image I tried to root the analysis in the perspective I chose for that specific analysis. There still seems to be a layer of information gathering left out or ways to see how I made my decisions. 

Program Analysis Part I

This is the first part of the program analysis for a Public Radio International station in Washington D.C. The development first of text as program both in physical proportion to the necessary size of the program and the importance of the figure of the program formally. The idea was to develop drawings that evoke ideas about the operation and performance of the program in many ways-- to have many isolated drawings of the whole and that all of the isolated drawings communicate to one another and provide many answers for the program.

Research/Travel Proposal

compositional shifts II

I am posting this a bit late, but I am still working on this analysis. This series of two animations used the rules of the Taurneau composition, resulting in an image sequence that discusses multiplicity or simultaneity of instances discovered through a series of basic operands in making the animation: shift, overlap, multiply, move, flip, turn, etc. The next step is to provide a frame or boundary and to work on the timing of the changes.

Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms

Many lawsuits have been filed against various U.S. telecommunication firms. These firms have been violating wiretapping and privacy laws by continuing to monitor calls after the initial surveillance plan for Sept. 11 to monitor calls from potential terrorists. Senator Dodd and Russell Feingold wanted to make an amendment to retroactively strip the immunity from lawsuits that these firms have. Immunity was ultimately preserved. 

Talking Points Memo

The Washington Post

Fashion On the Media

This is something I heard on an On the Media podcast. Brooke discusses with a professor from RISD the cultural and political ties to recent trends in fashion and some of the important ties in Russia during the Bolshevik period in the early 20th century and Coco Chanel. It also has some funny clips from Zoolander. 

compositional shifts

The definition of field or fragment versus figure in this analysis becomes difficult. How do you make shifts, slices, and lines spatial? How do you abstract the edge of an amorphous kidney geometry? How do you translate co-spatial or simultaneous relationships in three dimensions?

This set of animations show 4 different views of the same animate object or set of objects. Each geometry has at least one animate face. There is a range of different amplitudes and time periods chosen based on the composition of the objects. How do you make something spatial using a series of lines and planes in an animation? How can that translate back to a physical static form?

If Thomas Jefferson had a blog, what would he post?

Suppose either that Jefferson was born sometime in the 20th Century, or that he is displaced, maintaining his knowledge, experience and beliefs from the 18th century.