Adventures With My Rhinoceros

  Above is my completed surface design, above the references I took to help inspire my ideas. I took most of my photos while taking a walk downtown. For the first time I really noticed most buildings do not have very complex surface design. It made me appreciate the few structures that did experiment with some surface design to set it apart.  I guess I have an affinity for designs that swirl. I really liked the reference photo I took on the bottom right of my idea board. I wanted to come up with a design that churned in on itself... almost hard for the eye to look at, like a psychedelic image. The color pallet was very much inspired by classic Persian rugs, like the one my family used to have as a kid. To be completely transparent, my first design was very "trippy", but I had to scrap it due to unclean geometry that wouldn't hatch correctly. Something about the arrangement of the pieces made my eyes swim. That was the effect I was going for. I tried my best to recreate th...

I have been waiting a long time to get my hands on a computer powerful enough to run Rhino. The time has finally arrived, and this is my first creation. Our in-class prompt was to make a castle out of simple shapes using the basic skills we learned in our first class. Luckily for me, there's been this little design floating in my mind for a while... actually my first architectural idea ever, etched somewhere on the side of some random piece of paper buried in my closet. This idea has been living loosely in my head for almost two years, as I'm unsure how to capture an idea so accurately with a pencil. I wanted to capture the functionality of a temple, with the rigidity of a castle; a head of mind and state at the same time.  Rhino offers an accurate representation of reality that aids my design process. I used my preliminary two dimensional idea to establish the basis of my three dimensional design. From there the structure builds upon itself as I experimented with the software....