I'm here working on a few projects with fairly rectilinear footprints, and was given a pre-determined grid for the structure. Now as usual I freeze up...can't design...hit a rut...the grid is just blankly looking at me daring me to try something, and I sit frozen.
is any else afraid of the grid?
any advice? Asside from turning off the grid layer.
maybe try something sectionally? stacking things, moving sectionally using the grid in plan, but play in section... ceiling planes floor planes
and break from the grid in plan strategically when you have a good reason to? also maybe play with scales, volumes... big boxes vs. small boxes, formal moves vs. fields of elements? orders? ordering devces that obey the grid, and then ordering devices that have their own logic unrelated to the grid?
one of the 'any' series books by cynthia davidson had rem present a new concept/essay: the grid - maybe you should pick it up out of the lib to be certain of youself
afraid of the GRID
I'm here working on a few projects with fairly rectilinear footprints, and was given a pre-determined grid for the structure. Now as usual I freeze up...can't design...hit a rut...the grid is just blankly looking at me daring me to try something, and I sit frozen.
is any else afraid of the grid?
any advice? Asside from turning off the grid layer.
The grid is your friend. Tame the grid. Don't be a slave to it.
But then again, who am I to talk? I'm in love with it.
maybe try something sectionally? stacking things, moving sectionally using the grid in plan, but play in section... ceiling planes floor planes
and break from the grid in plan strategically when you have a good reason to? also maybe play with scales, volumes... big boxes vs. small boxes, formal moves vs. fields of elements? orders? ordering devces that obey the grid, and then ordering devices that have their own logic unrelated to the grid?
is this a cooper union take home test?
rotate...sketch...rotate again...sketch....rotate...sketch....rotate...sketch...... then photocopy...then mirror.......
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one of the 'any' series books by cynthia davidson had rem present a new concept/essay: the grid - maybe you should pick it up out of the lib to be certain of youself
TED i have most of the any books - will look through.
cryz - that's craz(y)
vado - yes...see architechno-version in the mail
bRink - makes sense I'll try. But the boundaries are fixed, I'll just be working on details
squaresquared...I dunno
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