Reflection

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1. What effects are you trying to achieve and how?

 

I was inspired by the water spray. I tried to set the centre pointed on the higher level as the diving point where a diver plunges into the water. Accordingly the diving causes a series of water splashes of different forms surrounding the centre point. In terms of the process, I created five tiny models and developed my design completely based on them. The instructions in workshops and studios really helped a lot combined with the two reading key points. Folding is the foundation of digital fabrication and was widely used among designers. The Rhino skills taught in workshop is extremely essential and critical to this module work. Folding and hand-making part is worth care and patience because it took truly a long time. The last step is professional photograph. A high-quality camera is required and a professional degree of photographing skills should be equipped.

 

 

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2. How does the material change the topography of your surface?

 

Only ivory cards are required to be used in this module. By simply folding up the two-dimensional paper, those hidden spaces and open spaces are properly combined together ended up as a three-dimensional model to better manifest the design. In one sense, folding is of great importance and laid a solid foundation for digital fabrication. Ivory card is developable and there are a vast majority of possibilities of design built from natural paper. Therefore, two-dimensional surfaces can be described as the basis regarding to geometry construction in modern world. Throughout this module, every simple and plain element such as paper can be constructed as one of the most indispensable parts within architectural design.