OBDF 210

  Mini Presentations Slide 1 : I chose to include Rachel Whiteread's work because of her attention to negative space and her large scale castings Slide 2 : I'm drawn to the work of Chiharu Shiota because she creates large scale installations that force the viewer to navigate the physical space they are in.  Slide 3 : Catherine Burgess uses industrial material such as metals and steel and manipulates them in ways that they look warm and like handmade goods Slide 4 : To deviate from the first three examples and their large scale installations, Chris Millar works on an incredibly detailed, small scale to create tiny installations that captivate the viewer.  Slide 5 : My own work, an example of a plaster drapery I made.  Slide 6 : My own work again, an ensemble of wooden shelves to display pantry foods.           

  Modelling Architecture in Rhino For our week one assignment I chose to model the entrance to my apartment building. It consists mostly of cubic shapes, with rounded ornamental windows cut out. I thought it was a good, straightforward choice to practice some of the skills we learned last week.  I built the entrance using various sized rectangular extrusions, and copying extrusions so that sizes were uniform. As I built it, I realized I should've used the mirror tool, since some of the extrusions weren't lining up correctly. I found that my knowledge of Rhino so far isn't as technical as other modelling software I've used, and I'd like to know how to use construction lines in Rhino.  I was stumped when it came to cut out the front archway; I created an extrusion with fillets to get the rounded corners, but the boolean cut-away wouldn't work because the fillets didn't seem to apply to the front and back face of the extrusion.  In summary, this was easier than...