Microaggregation

Using blend in Adobe Illustrator I created two samples of transfiguration, shown below. One as a square and one as a circle. I then took those and imported them into Rhino. Using ptMean I was able to create my final Microaggregation drawing. It seems fitting to the word, it almost looks like it's a painful process.

Moving on up

The second project of the semester moves the quarantine site off the human body and brings it to a scale of one whole person. Our site is located at the Erato Street Cruise Terminal in the Port of New Orleans. Today we are going to visit the site to do an analysis of the elements and details of the area.

In my preliminary research and concept building I decided on several things. I am going to attempt to keep a strong connection to the concept of my first project - The Plague Tie. The idea I would like to carry over is the technique of filtration. Without contact with aerosol droplets containing the disease or the carrier insects and mammals the disease can be effectively prevented. Thus, the facility or environment created does not have to be airtight. I would also like to carry over the concept of taking something and transforming it for added uses. This time instead of masking the properties within the object, I would like to change the object for a visible difference to show its new function.

After considering several options of materiality and structure I decided I had two interests - folding and container architecture. Of which i have never seen the two combined in any way, except for one art piece my research brought me to.

I think one of the larger and more overall challenges of this project is to create a container that will stand out against the other more published container architecture solutions. There are hundreds or even thousands of published projects for container uses, however none to deal with folding and few to deal with quarantine.

Next step making it 100% sustainable and off the grid.

Freedom and Confine Research

Tape bodycast process

It's not all hard work

Survival Routines

The final part of the project was to study survival routines. Several choices were given - eating, drinking, sleeping, etc. And also there were several units of measure in which you could keep track of your habits.

Over the course of 4 days I monitored my sleep habits, where I was at the time, when I was sleeping and whether it was intentional or not. I also measured my eating habits based on my nutritional intake of calories. All 4 days were very average for me so I do not believe I have any spiked results, if anything my calorie intake might be slightly lower than it should to account for cone cups of soft drinks while at my job.

I took a graphic representation approach to map my behaviors, using circles to show a 24 hour period and the average activity within. Color theory played a small role in determining the key for the sleep habit chart - showing planned and unplanned and the extent of time I spent sleeping.

The chart on the left describes my sleeping habits and the chart on the right describes my average caloric intake every hour over a 24 hour period.

Advertising

Another part of the assignment encompassed creating an advertisement for the finished product. I chose a catchy and witty take that didn't play on the visual image of a tie attached to someones face. I took humor and facts along with a bit of color theory for contrast and put them into a humerus yet enlightening ad - one that speaks of the tie as a sophisticated and fashionable piece of everyday protection.