The Baths of Diocletian

Produce and Pattern Project

Concept sketches from preliminary ideas I didn't use, to final designs. These I did after the project was well under way, and were done for ideas how to revamp the project. Originally I worked directly from the 2D patterns below.
These drawings of the pepper are just horrible.
As noted above, these were my inspiration for the project and there were no sketches originally.
This model was made when I really didn't quite understand the direction in which my project was headed or what I was to do with my patterns. It is a testament to what doesn't work, and my repulsion to it was what lead me to successive iterations. In a way, without this failure, none of the other successes of this project could have happened, irony at it's finest.




I really liked the concept of this model and how it abstracted the pattern from which it came.



This version of the above white model shows the inclusion of a color, in this case orange. I chose it for it's brightness and high luminosity. The focus of my idea was to pull attention not to the interior of the geometric shapes, but to the spaces between them. I used orange there so that the light would reflect and create an aura so to speak inside those gaps. These pictures do that quality great justice. This model was also a great improvement on craft over the original all white version.



After the second geometric looking model I hit a wall and could not come up with anything new for that idea. I felt like the project needed a breath of fresh air, something to change it up and provide more material. During times like these, I always go look at the buildings of Santiago Calatrava. His work is absolutely breathtaking and always inspired me to look at or interpret my concepts and projects with new light. In this case, the Qatar Photography Museum led me to re-evaluate how I wanted my project to convey the sense of interior space, and was the reason for the revamp on my final model.

Drafting Projects

EUC presentation board