Saturday, April 08, 2006
Sigita Saliklis
Design Concept Based Project Description
I have chosen a title/concept for the progression of this project: networking. Just as my field follows a certain hierarchy of networks, wood thicknesses and layers, networking has a hierarchy of definitions which I used to define my project. The first and conceptually largest definition of network is, “Something resembling an openwork fabric or structure in form or concept.”
Regarding my network as “openwork fabric in form”, a network can be defined as “A system of lines or channels that cross or interconnect.” The interconnecting and organizing of lines and planes was critical to communicate the idea of networking movements, moments, and distortions. Gilles Deleuze writes in his work “The Fold”, “Development does not go from smaller to greater things through growth or augmentation, but from the general to the special, through differentiations of an initially undifferentiated field either under the action of exterior surroundings or under the influence of internal forces that are directive… but remain neither constitutive nor performative (10).”
The verb form of the word network is, “To interact or engage in informal communication with others for mutual assistance or support.” My moments in the field rely on each other, and the other networks to structurally support it. Conceptually, networking implies a certain mutual dependence and formal organization. It can be replaced by the word “connecting”, or “defining.”
The inhabitable portion of the landscape is geared towards a space of intense physical activity. The tectonic system used in creating the landscape is similar, however the logic changes from polygonal to a “NURB” based language. The angles and information already established by the landscape is scaled and exaggerated to fit the needs of an inhabitable space. The polygonal logic uses the concept of a CV curve to generate the “NURB” based language. The curves are used to exaggerate types of spaces (open, welcoming, crowded, private…) and to emphasize areas of inhabitation.
.: sigita 3:07 PM
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