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C-2 Studio – Lyceum Competition Progress

tomboessel — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:19:59 +0000

Lyceum Competition Studio

tomboessel — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:01:44 +0000

Studio – Lyceum Competition

tomboessel — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:58:07 +0000

Classes have started at the-BAC

tomboessel — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:19:06 +0000

Below is my class list at the-BAC (The Boston Architectural College)

W 4-7 – Programming and Codes
W 7-10 – Lyceum Competition
Online Section – Green Practice / HVAC

In my programming and codes class we were all assigned a reading The Image of a City by Kevin Lynch. We have to familiarize ourselves with the concepts of Lynch’s 5 elements of a city, their interrelationship, and how they join to form a developing whole. In hopes of obtaining a better awareness of the fabric of a city.

We have to develop diagrams of our theoretical site in relation to those 5 elements of a city.
Locate and identify each element by a specific name of our choice.
Explain in a few sentences how each of these elements works for our building in terms of its elements.

First Floor Plan – HOUSE VI (Frank House) – Peter Eisenman

Second Floor Plan – HOUSE VI (Frank House) – Peter Eisenman

Kinetic Hot Wire Experiment

tomboessel — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:30:04 +0000

The idea of this hot wire cutter is to have the ability to reach behind the material to create super amorphic shapes. Unlike a router attachment that can only affect the surface, and has a difficult time reaching behind material. The advantage of a kinetic hot wire, is that you can expand and contract the wire, which will change the overall shape of the hotwire. The rigidity of a flat wire allows the contraction of the shape to return to its initial destination.

Radial Hot Wire

tomboessel — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:19:04 +0000

Our intention for the coffee table is to successful replicate a module, based on Evan Douglis’s Displaycase Membrane. We were looking at how a hot wire could excavate foam without milling. We didn’t want a long insubstantial mass, so we looked at how we could provide variety to the table top. This is that exploration. Moving forward, I think we could move from a radial hot wire – to a linear hot wire cutter that can take a profile and stretch it out.