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Chelsea Heckenkamp

Chelsea Heckenkamp

Washington, DC, US

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Volumetric translation of elements from Libeskind's Chamberworks series through VR (Tiltbrush)
Volumetric translation of elements from Libeskind's Chamberworks series through VR (Tiltbrush)
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Sketching in VR - in progress

This thesis attempts to develop a generative approach, inspired by Libeskind’s two-dimensional Chamberworks series, to three dimensions through the increasingly accessible technology of live-sketch virtual reality...

...where the author and/or viewer can quickly manipulate the scale and ‘occupy space’ in the sketch,

...a medium where the gesture of the human hand is brought back into sketching in a way not seen since architecture was worked out primarily on paper

...and where the technique of generating concepts does not have to be done through points and lines of the pencil or mouse, but instead by gestural volumes of the arm and body.

 
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Status: School Project

 
Analysis of one of Libeskind's horizontal sketches from the Chamberwork's series
Analysis of one of Libeskind's horizontal sketches from the Chamberwork's series
Sketching with volume and a ground plane (GravitySketch)
Sketching with volume and a ground plane (GravitySketch)
Bow-hand motion captured as a line & use to generate volumes in 3D space (GravitySketch)
Bow-hand motion captured as a line & use to generate volumes in 3D space (GravitySketch)
Input from an arrangement of Hungarian no. 5, the linear production manipulated in space to reflect the relationships between different sections of the piece
Input from an arrangement of Hungarian no. 5, the linear production manipulated in space to reflect the relationships between different sections of the piece
Full Thesis Prep Presentation