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Monthly Archives: June 2015

Landscape Parametric Design in Owens Valley

June 9, 2015by feixie86 Leave a comment

Voronoi Diagram and parametric tessellation. I should keep learning Rhino and Grasshopper. A ZA!

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Landscape Parametric Design

June 9, 2015by feixie86 Leave a comment

The first chance for me to apply the basic parametric design in landscape architecture. There is a long way to go. A Za A Za Fighting!

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Pressing the Valley

June 8, 2015by lvargas64 Leave a comment

To help control the PM-10 pollution of Owen’s Valley, my partner Benjamin and I provided a plan that will help control the dust through the work of a grasshopper script […]

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Often Overlooked

June 8, 2015by lvargas64 Leave a comment

Exploring the Owen’s Valley brought a particular place that is often overlooked by many travelers to one’s acknowledgement. Eidetic videos helped student’s become more of aware of the feel, emotion and […]

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Exploring Owen’s Valley

June 8, 2015by lvargas64 Leave a comment

When first arriving to Owen’s Valley, I really did not know what to expect of this place. Year after year, passing along the 395 Hwy for family vacations, I have […]

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Wind Impressions

June 8, 2015by lvargas64 Leave a comment

As we created abstract markings and hatches from our wind drawings, we were to explore how to make a machine that can make markings and drawings that were enforced by […]

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An Ecological Mesh

June 8, 2015by d.alcantara Leave a comment

Mapping alignments that were interconnected and adjacent to the lake revealed the physical existing conditions of the lake and influenced the conditions of proposed earthwork patterns. The selection of the […]

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Capturing Wind

June 7, 2015by Eli Leave a comment

Translation is an exercise in abstraction. This series of wind drawings attempts to capture the multi-layered nature of wind patterns across the Owens Valley landscape using mylar paper and audio-recordings […]

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The Practicality of Designing Something Completely Impractical

June 7, 2015by mmoffa17 Leave a comment

From the beginning, Barry’s approach to the class made me somewhat uncomfortable; the idea of designing for a future scenario, and not getting caught up in the constraints of today. […]

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Notes From A Resource Colony II

June 7, 2015by mmoffa17 Leave a comment

In a way I can’t decide if the resource colony is a more benign form of colonialism or a more offensive one. European colonialism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America […]

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Final thoughts for Owens Lake project and course

June 7, 2015by oscarporron Leave a comment

As Project 4 was coming to end we were finally seeing how all the assignments were coming together. How all the phases we had done before added to our final […]

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Alluring Parametrics

June 7, 2015by alsuhu Leave a comment

For our final project, we gathered all of our information and created variables from them which we put into a Rhinoceros 5 plugin called Grasshopper. Working with parameters and components, […]

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Journey To Owens Valley

June 7, 2015by alsuhu Leave a comment

During our fourth week of the quarter, our studio packed our bags and traveled to the Owens Valley. We brought along our basic survival gear such as food and tents, […]

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Sculpting With Clay

June 7, 2015by alsuhu Leave a comment

Along with the previous exercises, our first real attempt on creating patterns in the landscape was with the use of clay. We were instructed to envision our sculpting tools as […]

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A Drawing Machine

June 7, 2015by alsuhu Leave a comment

For this assignment, we were tasked to create a machine that would move from direct influences in its environment, and by attaching different drawing mediums we systematically created a drawing […]

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Drawing Wind and Sounds

June 7, 2015by alsuhu Leave a comment

For the Spring 2015 quarter at Cal Poly Pomona, we had the opportunity to learn about the Owens Lake in our studio class. To dive in, we attempted a series […]

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The Spirit of Language

June 7, 2015by lnguyen2013 Leave a comment

Computer programming was something I had always wanted to grasp more upon.  Every design must have a verbal and visual language, and computer programming seems to be one of the ways […]

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Unfolding the Narrative

June 7, 2015by lnguyen2013 Leave a comment

Writing our project narrative was probably the most exciting part in our design. We had to really sit down and think about what the project is about and how it […]

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Parametrics: Opportunities and Challenges

June 7, 2015by Eli Leave a comment

History shows that there is a consistent reaction (by some), against new technology. This subset of people often believe that the new technology represents some type of negative shift in […]

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A picture says 1,000 words

June 6, 2015by kasandradipieri Leave a comment

As a former science teacher, we had an instructional model called the 5E model: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate. This is “Problem-based learning” at it’s best…

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