Ducati Bunny

The beginning of modeling the Ducati. Working on my logo as well

Monster Big

My new ride and in attempt to get some head space on this object that soon will feel like apart of me I will be modeling the hell out of it and reading up on it as much as I can. Wish me luck.

The Thesis Continues: 2 Degrees

Slowly this thesis is taking form. I've gotten through creative context and am now defining what I have termed Degrees of Robustness. Working on 2 Degrees, has had me scouring the web in search of buildings that move, and course where but in Dubai can you find such fantasies realized. Dr. David Fisher the design of Dynamic Towers, is about to realize the large scale actuation of buildings.


"The Dynamic Tower heralds a new era of architecture: Buildings in motion will challenge traditional architecture, becoming the symbol of a new philosophy that will change the look of our cities and the concept of living.

The Dynamic Tower is environmentally friendly, with the ability to generate electricity for itself as well as other buildings nearby making it the first building designed to be self-powered, it achieves this feat with wind turbines fitted between each rotating floor. An 80-story building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant.
The Dynamic Tower is also the first skyscraper to be built entirely from prefabricated parts that are custom made in a workshop, resulting of fast construction and of substantial cost savings . this approach known as the Fisher Method, also requires far less workers on construction site while each floor of the building can be completed in only seven days, units can also be customized according to the owners needs and styles"

Need to assess if this fit with 2 degree of 3...hmmm

decisions

This past wednesday dad and i went to the BMW dealership and ordered the starter and air solenoid. They should be in on Wednesday of next week.

The thesis: I found some writing that I had done in Nicholas's Words and Cities seminar and found and article from Frazier, An Evolutionary architecture. The writing is still going slow. I'm a somewhat worried because what i the framework that I am setting out for the thesis is going negate the actual design. i might have to wiggle some things to make it slightly relevant. in an attempt to move forward but ignore the this fact, i have spent the morning working on some renderings.






the blue is contrasting well with the yellow and white but there is something about the abstractness of the unsaturated sky.

KILL< KILL< KILL

At approximately 10:30 pm, just about as I was going to begin doing some Maya fluid studies, SpywareXP2009 attacks my computer. In such a state of panic, I hurriedly run through its operations and low and behold, the virus has taken over my poor crucial laptop. For the next 7 hours, I spend my time rewiring internet connections and chords back and forth between my laptop and my parents desktop, trying to debug this atrocious parasite, trying all types of spyware removers. After many failed attempts and warnings of severe operationing failures due to messing with the registry, I gave up and took a two hour nap. Only to wake up and face the fact I was going to have to reinstall windows. I did...So back and running.

GAS TODAY: $2.17

What's wrong with the Mystic

Suddenly today my dad's memory decides to kick in. "Guess what honey, I think I remember that there is a BMW manual in the saddlebags" WHAT! I just spent 70 bucks getting my hands on a new one. So we ruffle through the pages and according to pops, its seems it might be some faulty brushes in the Bosch starter motor or it could be the starter solenoid.

He also appparently damaged, while trying to toubleshoot the bike earlier, either the Air vent solenoid or the Fuel shut-off solenoid. Whatever I'm just stoked at moving forward on this thing.

Outlining the Big T

I stayed up all last night trying to organize some sense of the mess that is my thesis, and after careful consideration of what i had produced and I found that there was a fundamental idea that although not well executed, I am excited about confronting. I suppose this new lense trickled into my perspective, after sitting in on a critique for Paz Guttierez's 100A studio, when Nicholas described the ability of structures to adapt to changing unexpected conditions. He referred to the word Robustness. "Money!" is all i could think. How appropriate a word to use as a metric for contemporary architecture, specially when we are finding that it as a profession is beginning to understand the research and studies of other fields and what the implications of such findings can have on the practice of architecture. That the complexity of design can begin to be actuated as a biological one, again supports the metric of Robust.

In my thesis I have defined what I am terming degrees of robustness. I use degrees to refer and quote the idea of degrees of motion. Meaning that more degrees you have the wider the breath of movement. In terms of Robustness, the higher the degree, the larger the span of flexibility and adaptability.

1 degree= Smart surfaces. The surface is static but through its continuity and informing by the fourth dimension of vectors, it carries with it multiplicity of program.

2 degree= Movement of parts. There is no statis but through actuated movement, discrete moments are defined.

3 degree= responsiveness to changing conditions. Movement or change is induced by variable outside the system but yet the system is capable of adapting to those positions.