MC Studio

2007-04-30T01:03:00.000-05:00

2007-04-22T01:54:00.000-05:00

2007-04-21T04:11:00.000-05:00

2007-04-20T09:47:00.000-05:00

2007-04-19T19:09:00.000-05:00

Plan sections moving the cut plane down through the building - top with a mess of hidden lines...

2007-04-18T14:19:00.000-05:00

2007-04-18T11:49:00.000-05:00

2007-04-17T22:50:00.000-05:00

a few section/plan overlay's on rhino print files -

2007-04-16T00:31:00.000-05:00

2007-04-15T20:26:00.000-05:00

2007-04-15T15:03:00.000-05:00

webbing component for joint / enclosure is finally able to populate a full mesh! working on it now...

2007-04-13T15:29:00.000-05:00

surface application test with less complex component -

2007-04-11T23:31:00.000-05:00

I have a few options now, low tessellation : what was pinned up on monday, medium tessellation(scale can be a bit smaller for the member size) - the last post, and now the high tessellation - an over the top multi billion dollar trashy library - I think it is a little much - (I think the scale of one of the population's is off as well)

I have a few options now, low tesselation : what was pinned up on monday, medium tesselation - the last post, and now the high tesselation - an over the top multi billion dollar trashy library - I think it is a little much -

2007-04-11T13:29:00.000-05:00

2007-04-10T22:12:00.000-05:00

the new generating mesh that responds to the neighboring buildings as well as the site (attractor points are yellow for larger height in the component to make up the main portion of the library growing out of the alley -

2007-04-06T19:53:00.000-05:00

I really want to make a more evolved iteration of the above work, although it seems like enclosure is still an issue - after all of the testing with the Generative envelope, and site intervention, I really like the idea of the trash library growing out of the alley, which naturally provides a vertical circulation corridor for books to travel from the vip stacks(below ground) to the vip reading rooms (high up, near offices), as well as for people. Walking down lafeyette st, you can pass through the library daily, programed for cafe space / new collection reading rooms / maybe I can make the connection to the conceptual "drift" of litter), in this act though there is an active exchange of information b/t the user and the constantly updated archives of the library -

below however, I am not so sure my system works so well as a population of the generative envelope001 I was working with - it seems much more static than the above image, and my concept is related to the drift and a library that is constantly updating / changing so this doesn't seem to be the best proposal.

I am also speculating that the webbed surface enclosure can be populated by mc_brad_623 similar to this image (thanks jonas for the photo) :

2007-04-05T12:21:00.000-05:00

floor/wall ceiling condition pulled from library generative mesh - note the ability to open up the component, and adjust the depth of it for thickening floor conditions - space inside component could be for mep or define space

starting to test out mc_brad_951's ability for shading / enclosure purposes -
havign a bit of trouble populating correctly, so I have to add instances manually - only a small region of this mesh has the enclosure feature applied (lower right corner)

2007-04-04T00:14:00.000-05:00

exterior view looking down Lafayette - I'm trying to pull the flows of trash circulation on the site into the building (pulling trashy media into the library?, maybe it is a porn library?) - with areas of fast circulation - (i.e. Samantha's daily use of the coffee bar / news feed) vs. slower regions in the library that allow settling, collection, accumulation, also I am interested in the level of access to these differing regions, and how the space can start to allow for exapmple, a visual connection from the entrence into the vip collection, which is accessible only through the special access reading rooms...

Interior view moving south through the more intimate secondary stack / reading towards the open stacks and performance space that is farthest south - above the performance space are the office spaces(2nd image), and special access reading areas, with the vip stacks underground below this. the bridge over Lafayette ties into the circulation on the east side of the street as well as allowing an experience of the library even if you are not physically in it, but driving under it. This could be a secondary performance space combined with various food vendors.

2007-04-02T16:05:00.000-05:00

enclosure system test
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starting to test my component working with the generative library envelope -

2007-04-02T15:44:00.000-05:00

2007-04-02T00:59:00.000-05:00

generative section / library generation -
-mirror horizontal
-stretch to generate circulation through library
-extract surface curves
-generate new curves / combine where they meet
-lift new curves
-move cv's 6a - no self intersections
6b - stretch space based on program moments from diagram (greyoverlapping)
6c - stretch space to allow circulation (hopefully my component can articulate 6b and c)

2007-03-29T01:47:00.000-05:00

Vertex issue is becoming more resolved! (by constructing curves based off of a coordinate system that's x direction is the centroid of the endpoints of two lines tangent to the curves meeting at the vertex, a clean z-print tectonic joint is crafted)

the height attractor can allow local swells or bulges in the component_one option for how to use this could be - if there is a need for more private space, a swell can create a more intimate spatial condition - still, I don't really have any enclosure - working on this

I am working on generating a set of different surface effects for the
component - last class the component was very structural
now I want to see how is can enclose space - with the GCT file I have
attached, I want to be able to populate the component based
on parameters - similar to the area script you sent us early on in the
semester - however, I would like to do this in relation
to a point - this way I am thinking I can populate different instances of
generating curves, and on top of these, generate different
instances of my surfacing techniques -

another issue I have is that of scale - I can't decide if I want to use
three of four spatial components for the building, or
"populate" one of the rhino mesh's I have - maybe I can develop a set of
surfaces from the three large components that I can then
populate in gc similarly to the above - so the three large components set
up a structural system to define the underlying system -
seems like my computer could handle this better??

I am worried though with this method that I would be basically throwing
out the mesh study and generative sections, as those seem to
be very enticing - so I'm not so sure I want to go this way, all though,
maybe they can work together?

either way, I think it will be helpful to control how I can populate the
mesh's based on a region defined by a point, or point set -

2 different component states - one more surface like with the flanges stretching to define space(large scale) or create aperture(small scale surface effect)

2007-03-27T20:31:00.000-05:00

2007-03-23T18:40:00.000-05:00

first iteration of Jerry's library experience

first iteration of tommy's time based program

first iteration of samantha's time based program

2007-03-22T14:12:00.000-05:00

I started to draw up some program layout's with the generative sections(mesh_020), and manipulating them in a similar manner to PaperMesh__020 with the idea of dominant spaces giving way to residual spaces of excess (material?)

2007-03-21T00:22:00.001-05:00

How can the media collection activate multiple senses?

Media : magazines / journals/ comics / independent Bowery authors / Newspaper / Independent Film from Bowery / video game systems?/ Remnants of Previous and Current Bowery Businesses, i.e. Old Menus, bar signs, rally posters, xxx signs, music!/music posters/ Starbuck's (three of them are within 5 blocks)

program of the stacks continuously moving through space

primary stacks : weave through reading and open performance spaces allow for drop off and collection of media, new media into library? or most exciting?
secondary stacks : access with help of librarian or on own, main collection,
tertiary stacks : access by librarian only – artifacts, older?

networked organization of program / overlapping / folds – No singularly defined space, i.e, this space is for reading, this space is for collecting – or maybe a shift from less defined to defined spaces – but bathroom can still have media in it – who doesn't like to read a magazine on the toilet?

Program User Scenarios :

Rich Kid (12?) From Broadway on the hunt for the first comic book from bowery (Tommy)
In the main “reading area's” he can grab a snack and get excited about the new comic's on display in primary stack's – can stay here in loop of Reading / Primary Drop off excess media from home (comic book he is tired of, baseball card's, playstation 3, just received ps4 for Christmas) But want's the first comic book – looks in secondary, finds interesting books, but not the one - look's on updated web for book – find's it in tertiary section, librarian picks it up for him – can read now in more quite area of secondary stacks, or check it out? On his way out, distracted by rock performance, ends up late for school.

“bum” (Jerald)
Chess in public space? He can already do this though in the park, open performance – he is involved in helping to produce a show (Fiddler on The Roof of the Bowery Mission), can make a little cash (enough to afford to live in NYC, let alone on Bowery! although occasionally spends the night in the secondary stacks, if he get's tired of the mission) while doing something he enjoy's,. Mainly hangs out in the secondary reading room (a bit more quiet) checking out old sport section's of the New York Times. - Occasionally checks out an even older Times from the tertiary stacks. Love's to drop off collected photo album's, and kitchen catalogs he finds in the trash around the mission.

late 20s / early 30s advertising day job downtown (Samantha)
Stops by daily for coffee and input of new's from main reading room / performance space (maybe if no performance can project news?) Early on in projects, she goes up to the tertiary stacks to research case studies in sidewalk advertising from the past life of the Bowery, once had a client meeting in one of the offices to show, her main inspiration, a historic advertisement for a Sausage – Once in a while invites her boyfriend to go to see a jazz band in performance space. Afterwords, sticks around for a drink in the cafe, which is now more of a lounge, and then more dancing as the dj is just going on in the open performance space.

2007-03-12T00:50:00.000-05:00

v01 : (line23[0].Length)>(line23[1].Length)?line23[0].Length:line23[1].Length

v02 : (line23[0].Length)>(line23[1].Length)?line23[1].Length:line23[0].Length

v03 : (line23[0].Length)>(line23[1].Length)?line23[0]:line23[1]

v04 : (line23[2].Length)>(V301)?V303:V305

v05 : (line23[2].Length)>(V302)?line23[2]:V306

v06 : (line23[0].Length)>(line23[1].Length)?line23[1]:line23[0]

v04 = middle distance of three

2007-03-11T11:36:00.000-05:00

Library Program_010

“In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths. They are assembling the universal library page by page.”
-Kevin Kelly, from NY Times

One really only needs a computer with Internet access in order to access a vast, constant growing global network of information spanning nearly every imaginable topic. If information is currently being archived and documented in this manner, where does leave the actual library? Is the library in danger of becoming extinct, falling prey to the vast database and archiving power of the Internet? Probably not, because the library has the ability to offer a multi-sensory physical experience of being able to interact with a range of mediatype's.
The Bowery library than can act as a receptacle, or a filter, allowing for a constantly changing collection, through a residual build up and archiving of local information, outputting this into the global information network.

“Sponges play an important roll in aquatic ecosystems, acting to filter particles out of the water (especially bacteria), and forming a fairly substantial portion of the coral reef biomass. “

The sponge offers a precedent for a library organizational system. Water enters the sponge through a vast network of pores (Ostium), in which are a series of specialized cells that have very different performative qualities; Choanocyte's act to control the flow of water and collect food, Amoebocyte's help to digest the food, Pinacocytes make up the “skin,” and the secretion of spicules that make up the internal mesh work, or structural system are carried out by Sclerocytes. Similar to the sponge, cell's with differing performative qualities can start to organize into, and make up the library. A topical injection of library into the Bowery offers a destination, rather than just a place for research. The library would act similar to that of the sea sponge, drawing people to constantly flow through, and interact on a very personal and intimate level with a constantly changing and evolving archive of residual media left from other people moving through the library. How does the archiving system work? Maybe the librarian's role becomes similar to that of the street hawkers one would find on the Bowery at the end of the last century, drawing people into the library and helping to collect and archive differing media types from them.

2007-03-05T21:13:00.000-05:00

This component is very cool - working on a conditional to vary the surface based on a point in the space

2007-03-05T16:30:00.000-05:00

2007-03-05T01:01:00.000-05:00

Mc_Brad_028 _

I've started to gain some more control over my component, basing it's dependency on the longest edge length vs the total area of the cell.

2007-03-03T02:36:00.000-05:00

I'm starting to test some of the componant aggregations in paper -

2007-03-02T19:44:00.000-05:00

I'm still working on refining the component - also - no more inverted normals! (see below)

2007-03-02T03:13:00.000-05:00

MC_Brad_621

a few examples of the populated surface - I think complexity can be achieved with the scale shift script allowing the component to reveal more information at a larger scale. Along with working in gc, I want to work with this component in paper - I think I can use rhino to calculate the lengths and shape of each surface, I can then laser cut multiple "cells" and attach them, I also am interested in analyzing the gradient shift in the 6 surfaces that make up the individual component - the 6 surfaces have the same topology (implying that they are the same) as they were generated with three, three point b-spline curves each -

2007-02-28T23:35:00.000-05:00

Mesh_610 populated by MC_Brad_201 - this component's hole in directly proportional with the size of the cell - still thinking about wht it can do based on the thickness(if it vary's)

2007-02-28T23:11:00.000-05:00

Mesh_610 populated by mc_brad_200

New Tesselation for the shape grid _ down to 200 shapes! This component changes porosity inversely with the cell size - now I want to work on adjusting the offset surface and make the component dependent on the offset distance...

2007-02-28T21:46:00.000-05:00

I'm also working in GC to make the component dependent on two shapes, this is a screenshot of the shape grid's created - populating the mesh is a bit slow, I think my computer can handle 850 shapes...

2007-02-28T21:35:00.000-05:00

Generative sections of two meshes from the same family, but differing organizational systems, 020 branching, while 023 acting in a stacked circulation, with diagnol connection, I am still thinking of something else to call this second organizational system - like that of the zkm library...

A Few new Testing Grounds, still waiting for more photos to upload...

Knotting Model Different transformation options, I am interested in how these testing ground surface's can also act as a larger scale component made of a population of the micro-components -

2007-02-25T06:45:00.000-05:00

2007-02-24T14:35:00.000-05:00

testing ground gc image -

2007-02-22T13:41:00.000-05:00

Organizational Models

library - linearity / top to bottom relationship / program flowing through this vs sharoun networked continuous space
sponge as continuosly differing space - no top / no bottom - vs hiearchy of space center main circulation pore

elastic / transient / accumulative residue left due to the transcient passing through -

First test with topological testing ground in rhino - I am having a bit of trouble defining how the surface is cut and modified based on my paper models recipe of - --attach similar surface edge's, cut on creases halfway, fold in order to reattach similar cut surface edges --

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2007-02-15T20:38:00.000-05:00

Field Test_Mesh01 - note shift in scale

2007-02-15T20:25:00.000-05:00

A Few Components -

2007-02-11T23:09:00.000-05:00