VS Continuous Volume
/ 2018 Spring Semester
From The Continuous Volume / Instructed by Kristy Balliet / Partner with Yuan WANG
The course will cover issues of contemporary representation techniques by prioritizing the development of volume rich interiors. Volume will be explored in relation to complex digital form and developed between physical and virtual space. The workflow will rely on design agility and decisions made in rapid succession across multiple mediums in order to subvert convention. The seminar will focus on the architectural topics of gesture, projection, and volumetric layering to create interiors larger than their exteriors. A concept of fullness will be explored through a designed contamination between three dimensional drawing, flat modeling and virtual reality. We will challenge convention by drawing on edges, modeling the in-between and stepping in and out of reality.
Throughout the semester we will flip flop between modes of drawing and modeling and their impact on the production of lines, volumes and surfaces. Surfaces will be inflated and animated, lines will be drawn in two and three-dimensional virtual space. Precision and abstraction will be used to produce multiple effects between actual and perceptual interiors and exteriors of an object. The designed volume will elude visual containment to create multiple simultaneous interiors.
The course will develop critical visual literacy and review methods for generating and evaluating volume. We will work to engage techniques and concepts of zero gravity three dimensional drawing in VR environments, digital modeling, and digital/physical fabrication. The seminar underscores the design and development of volume to expand our comprehension of spatial multiplicity.
