Clean-up Crew

Today, Tristan, Sharon, Philip, Rebecca L., Kristina, Aubrey, and Hannah used Tristan's car to load and unload all of everyones concrete structures from the parking lot into the outside area off of the woodwork shop.  It took a little over an hour to do, but we did it even though it was freezing outside.  Thank you guys for helping!!!

Temporary Gateway setup

These are pictures I took after our final critique.  They show where we want the stepping stones and half circles to guide the pathway at.  They are not permanent places yet as they need to be properly installed and have landscaping where the stepping stones are not.  We want the stepping stones to be placed in diagonals and the half circles to go in the empty spaces next to where there is no stepping stone and also on the corners of the stepping stones.

Individual drawing

This is my individual drawing of the half circle concrete structure I have casted several times.  It has a cross-section cut on the left and the right is the cross-section view.  I have labeled dimensions and poched the cross-section view.

Final Exhibit

This is the final model on the lowered table with all of the groups' final drawings on the wall above the model.  On the far right side is the drawing of the whole parking lot with our concrete structures on it to present to the school.Every group has a side on the panels with pictures and a throw-up sheet on top and two to three individual drawings we picked of each of the concrete structures.


The window side of the exhibit shows all of our failures.

Setting up the Exhibit

These are pictures I took from being a part of the exhibit group while setting up the day before Thanksgiving break.  Neal and I were the last ones to leave that night from setting up.

Practice molds

This is a half circle made from a light fixture that was plastic.  We are using several of these for our final product.This is an attempted sphere we casted from a bouncy ball.  It did not work because of the indentions on the sphere.
Kristen Sylvia and I casted this one by using a bowl with vaseline in it and then stuck ginko leaves on the vaseline to stick and finally cooking spray on top of that.  I really like the texture it made, but as a group we decided not to use this mold.
We casted the outside of  a basketball and decided not to use it either since it looked too much like a basketball.
Here is the inside of a basketball.  It has two lines that cross on one side and we have decided to use this mold for our final product.

P, E, and B process pictures

This is the cardboard pattern that we put in every square mold to make parts of a circle pattern on each stepping stone.Here are some concrete molds that are waiting to be dried and taken out.
David and Rebecca casting the stepping stones...
Kristen Sylvia and I came in on a Saturday afternoon and casted about twenty half circles using basketballs and light fixtures.

Precedents for P,E, and B

I found these concrete structures in the courtyard of the McIver building outside of the video store.  I thought they were interesting and could give us some inspiration.
The glass bottles in the concrete wall is very cool looking and I showed my group this picture and everyone thought putting glass in the concrete was a great idea so it will be interesting to see how our project will turn out if we end up using glass.

Drawings for Pathways, Edges, and Boundaries

Grind Wall

Here is a technique using a grinder to make chips in the concrete to create an interesting texture and make it look interesting.  I had my boyfriend take these pictures at my dad's job site where they were making a retaining wall with this grinding technique.  I thought maybe this could be an idea to take in consideration when making our concrete.

Notes in sketchbook about Pathways, Edges, and Boundaries

Future Master Plan

This is the future master plan of UNCG's campus.  As you can see in the bottom right corner, there is the Gatewood and Cone building parking lot that will eventually be turned into a parking deck.  Behind the Gatewood building will be a grassy area with trees and a pathway.  I brought up the idea that once the parking deck is built that we could move the concrete structures to the grassy area.

Dialog

Dialog is created by two spaces that have a commonality and interact with each other in some way.  In my dialog project your eyes make you scroll upward to see the second party that is involved in the conversation.  The skewers connect both rectangles creating connectivity and interaction.

A sense of space is defined by the two rectangles made out of bristol board that are two defined and clear spaces.

The idea of system is generated by having two parts work together to make a whole.  The rectangles connect and the skewers go through both of the rectangles creating togetherness/working together to make a whole.  Also, the rectangles are different sizes, yet the same shape creating scale, which creates a system.

Having both rectangles touch one another and the skewers going through both rectangles in an upward motion makes them connect in conversation/dialog.

Scale is utilized by the rectangles being the same shape, but different sizes and the skewers are the same length a part and in length moving in the same direction.  It looks like the bigger one is eating the smaller one in conversation.

Two-dimensional images add to the understanding of the project because it shows details that the model cannot.  It shows detail about spaces and different views.  It shows the process of how the parts of the model relates to other parts or sides of the model/project.

All of my initial ideas didn't work with good because they were not well crafted.  I came up with about 10 ideas until one worked that was able to be well crafted.  The first iterations had radiating skewers, so I kept that idea and had the skewers going upward radiating up and out.  The second iteration had a big and small circular space, so instead of circles (that didn't work), I used rectangles.  In one of my last iterations, I had the skewers crossing each other and after I finished my final I saw that the shadows of the skewers made crosses just like that earlier iteration did, which I thought was very cool!

First Iterations of Dialog Project

After making my first model, I decided I did not like it as much as I had hoped.  So I decided to do some sketches of what I could to make it better.  After making some of the models, I still was not satisfied so I finally decided to move away from the circle shape and make it rectangles instead.  I was very pleased with the two rectangles (a small taller one inside of a big shorter rectangle).  The skewers went up on both sides.  The only problem was that it did not work with bristol board, it crushed the inside rectangle.  I had to come up with another idea, so this time I decided to connect the inside rectangle to one of the longer walls of the outside rectangle and have the skewers all on one side going in an upward motion.  This finally became my final!

Fifth Model

First Model

Second Model

Third Model

Fourth Model