Hi friends

Yooo, Check this out...

I plotted all our sites as proposed in class. Then I connected them in the way that seemed most logical to me, based on the "visual connection" idea I was talking about last week. I think the "snailing" effect as one follows the dotted line is interesting, and somewhat representative of the general trend of the site (inceasing privacy as one proceeds). That sounds like b.s. but i'm serious.

My piece lies between Remy and Sarah's, in other words the third to last "dot" in the sequence on my site plan. I'm proposing that my piece act as both its own seating area, and as a linking element between Sarah and Remy's pieces...............................................

If you look closely at the site plan I just posted you'll notice the general shape of the above axon represented in plan. The folding plane is meant to pick up on the visual connection with Remy's piece to the North, then to twist and send a visual connection towards Sarah's to the East.

These are some perspectival sketches of what I imagine my piece to look like...

It represents a careful fusion of many ideas into one tangeable form....

1. Ambiguity: I mentioned that ambiguity is something I observed in the site and something I wanna carry over into my design. The folding plane starts as a seating element, then shifts into a bracing element which then becomes a plane on which to rest one's back, etc.

2. Privacy vs. Exposure: The "bench" offers two seating zones. One which is open and unrestricted (to the right), and one which has distint boundaries (to the left).

3. Natural vs. Unnatural: I'm interested in the fact that the site attempts to emulate nature, while in fact it exists as a mere copy of it. By this I refer to the boulder "canyons" that are indeed made of natural forms, but are assembled in an unnatural fasion. As you can see, my piece is composed of two distinct elements...1) A folding plane, and 2) a supportive box. I intend to construct the two elements with equally distinct materials, and am leaning toward wood for the folding plane and either concrete or steel for the box. I consider wood natural, and concete/steel as man-made.

I feel like I just revealed alot, but I know you all will do the same soon. See you in class

Love always,

James