Feb '12 - Apr '13
Days that lead up to Final Review can be very intense. I took this documentary footage in the CBIP Lab last week. (*Note: While filming, I was waving my arm around and making silly faces to see what would happen.) Then, I used the footage combined with other clips to make a... View full entry
A Weekend in CBIP Lab, 2 days before Final Review
Mission: Distract Humanoids
This is the prototype I worked on for "Beyond Prototype" (a visual studies elective taught by Jason Ivaliotis) with Bo Liu, Lalima Chemjong, and Michael Gonzales. Our project, called "Aperture Cells," is a self-supporting component-based partition system constructed out of (3) 1/2&rdquo... View full entry
I spent the weekend in FabLab (aka woodshop) to make a prototype for a metal lamp (inspired by a flower bud) with my group members (Phillip Crupi, Alexandra Milo, and Jessica Kuo). It began with the conversion of our Rhino/Grasshopper files into a software called Mastercam: This is the... View full entry
This is what Saturday night at 11:30pm looks like in 2nd-Yr Studio. As you can see, 4 out of 4 students are not smiling. While my classmates were working hard on architecture, I was trying to decide what to do for "Parametric Realizations" class. From the syllabus by Mark... View full entry
Chalkboard turns into ping pong table at Avery Hall (Michelle vs. Damon): CBIP Lab, where I will be spending most of my time this semester: For Parametric Realizations class, we were assigned to make a box, and spend no more than 1 hr working on it. This is Paola's... View full entry
This is a journal of my adventures at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) as I pursue my M.Arch degree. It includes images of my projects, classmates' work, some thoughts, and grad-student daily life.