bathroom

a recently completed bathroom

unfinished stairs...

'A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, 

regarded from its own point of view, 

only a boring something made of wood.' 

Franz Kafka

Soon to bear witness to a thousand hellos and goodbyes, this almost-complete insertion to an existing Waiheke beach house transforms a previously innocuous entrance into an exhibition space, a promenade and a stage for holiday theatre.

skyline

This semester, I'm assisting Judy Cockeram with her design 5 paper:

title: 

SKYLINE

program:

BOUTIQUE CASINO

I just love Jack's line in Croupier - 'Hang on tightly, let go lightly.'

Sounds a little like drawing to me.

We've noticed that there doesn't appear to be a lot of really beautiful BIM extrapolated vector drawings out there. Not renders, but line weights so pretty that you'd want to hang them on your wall.

Can it be done?  BIM to lovely line drawings? I gave it a quick bash... Here's a selection of maquettes from my investigations into the the paper's title image.

Possibly a little too influenced by James Bond, no?

Maybe these aren't the most fantastic digital sketches but I'm happy to say it can be done and that it needs further work.  I'm sure Piranesi took a moment to work up his etchings.

So that's some of what we're going to be interested in this semester.  Beautiful drawings extracted directly from BIM models.  Wouldn't be nice to get something that illustrates Paul Klee's take on a drawing?

'A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.' - Paul Klee

Oh, and we quite like mobiles too...

Alexander Calder | Vertical Foliage 1941
original image courtesy Calder Foundation website

henceforth... 

mike

research & development...

'squares'