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Category Archives: 303Lsp15 Student Blog

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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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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Eidetic Photo montage

June 5, 2015by emecastillo Leave a comment

In the final presentation we had to incorporate an eidetic photo montage. I tried to include the experiences that I felt from the lake. It was full of contrasting points […]

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Owens Lake Field Trip

June 5, 2015by emecastillo Leave a comment

During the fourth week of school we got to visit Owens Lake, the lake was really big, so vast and mostly empty and really flat. The things that came out […]

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Plastilina Models

June 5, 2015by emecastillo Leave a comment

The next step on our design process was creating clay models, representing topography and using almost those lines that we manage to get from our drawings from the sound and […]

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Drawing Machine

June 5, 2015by emecastillo Leave a comment

Creating drawings from sound and wind was the first step on our design process. The next step was to create a machine that would mimic our handmade drawings, try to […]

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Final Project

June 5, 2015by eberber01 Leave a comment

After observing and analyzing Owen’s Valley and learning about the current problems its facing, having the opportunity to implement a design that dealt with mitigating some of the issues was […]

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Grasshopper Design Attempt

June 5, 2015by eberber01 Leave a comment

Using grasshopper for the first time was an interesting journey in trying to figure out how to implement parametric design within the site we chose. Using parametric algorithms to create […]

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Owen’s Valley Trip

June 5, 2015by eberber01 Leave a comment

Owens Valley is a site of political controversy that is associated with water rights and its current uses. Our visit to Owen’s Lake was a very informative experience, one that […]

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Wind Machine

June 5, 2015by eberber01 Leave a comment

Wind is a force that carries an abundant amount of power. So why can’t that force be harnessed to express the different characteristics that wind often displays daily. A wind […]

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Sensorial Drawings

June 5, 2015by eberber01 Leave a comment

Drawing is an art form that is based upon expression and subtleties that are associated with visuals. However, when we take away the visual component we are left with our […]

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Owens Lake Field Trip

June 3, 2015by rdiaz2013 Leave a comment

Owens Lake was a eye opener. I had pass through this region several times but I had never imagined this being a lake.The scale of the lake is vast and […]

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Sound and Wind abstract drawings

June 3, 2015by emecastillo Leave a comment

Trying to figure out how to draw the wind and sound was really challenging, at least for me. The experience changed from just listening to a station to actually feeling […]

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overcoming obstacles

May 27, 2015by amifoliadesign Leave a comment

Nearing the end of our quarter we are working to develop our final narratives based on our exploration of Owens Lake. We have utilized a variety of mediums and poetic […]

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Parametrics for Owens Lake

May 26, 2015by ifvelazquez Leave a comment

https://generativelandscapes.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/a01_step01.png ‘Grasshopper’ is a tool/plugin that multiplies, by the dozens, the possibilities of the results over manipulating a single 3D modeled object in Rhino. As a Landscape Architecture student, I […]

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lake alignments

May 26, 2015by soy.adi Leave a comment

Exploring form and patterns through clay modeling allowed me to understand the cut and fill process that will be required for machine choreography. It also allowed me to explore with […]

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Inspirations from Nature

May 26, 2015by ivanp1990 Leave a comment

One of the first assignments we had to do for class was to draw with our eyes closed the wind and noise. Although it may sound fairly easy the assignment […]

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Pattern Making

May 26, 2015by rdiaz2013 Leave a comment

For this part of the project we had to explore different pattern on a plastalina surface. The patterns had to be related to the machines that could be available in […]

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Interpreting Sounds

May 26, 2015by rdiaz2013 Leave a comment

To interpret sounds from a live feed can be difficult since the nature of people is to recreate that sound. To most people when they hear a sound the think […]

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Field Trip Week

May 17, 2015by d.alcantara Leave a comment

Having the opportunity to visit a site helps to experience it in different aspects and how the different variables involved had defined the site as it is now. Having the […]

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