#digital weave

[forgottenartsideblog]

hi i have neglected this sideblog completely but uni is over and here are some slides from my final hand in. and i also just won the Worshipful Company of Dyers' Colour prize!!! 💕🌼✨🌞💚💐

[ckyliu-blog]

Section Architecture (Iwamoto)

In Lisa Iwamoto’s article on sectioning, they discuss the variations of sections, the functions of sections, and how the act of drawing sections has changed with the advent of technology and three dimensional rendering. Whereas more traditional means of finding and creating a section usually start with an already built physical model, now, more often than not three dimensional models are drawn on the computer first, and getting sections from those drawings is only a matter of a couple clicks and commands. Iwamoto also discusses the usefulness of the section as a construction technique—using concepts of “profile” and “edge” to indicate useful elements to consider within a section. Throughout the article, Iwamoto also makes references to materials and machinery. This is perhaps the most interesting aspect of the chapter. What do sections have to do with the materials and machines use to craft the parts of the whole? Using real examples such as Iwamoto’s very own Digital Weave, we learn that “in negotiating constructive exigencies the project illustrates the adoption of now well-established steps for translating sectional cuts into a material system. Because the sectional cuts are not parallel to one another, the ribs are first rotated, moved onto a consistent plane, and consecutively labeled.” (Iwamoto 16). After looking at the pictures of the Digital Wave, I see now how the section plays a key role in the material and construction of the architecture. That is, the section motivates the construction of the architecture and the architecture its own section of itself, made possible by the actual material used to construct it and how that material was mechanically utilized.