Vague Terrain

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ink pen, thread, tracing paper

marta-ferreira inquired Hello! Firstly thank you for your lovely tumblr, lovely inspiring stuff. I wanted to ask, your post on the 2nd of March, entitled "Culinary Institute, José A. Rivera, 2011" - I was wondering where did you find that image, and where I could perhaps find more information on that project? I'm an architecture student doing a project which uses the concept of folded, faceted landscapes so it seems like a good precedent! Any help would be great. Cheers, all the best, Marta

Hi Marta - I very much appreciate your kind words. That image is from a project I did a few years ago while in the third year of my architecture undergrad. It was a project based on experiential fluctuations of time, space, different events, and perception during meals. (i.e., Think of all that occurs during a single meal, and the eventual space you - or your waitress/er - unconsciously create out of rearranging the objects on the table.) It grew out of a series of translating/transcribing maps and diagrams, largely from a trail mix extravaganza over a continuous track at three locations. The forms and folded dimensions are scales of change based on walking, twisting, and grabbing a handful of the healthy tasty treat. I might post some more pictures, diagrams, provide a link to an online portfolio, website, etc. There’s a lot of stuff I have to sort out… Sorry for the delay, as I have been traveling for the past couple of months. I hope your project turned out to be a success, it sounds very interesting. Cheers to you, dearest Marta.

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Settlements and City Strategies by olalekan jeyifous

This series contains abstracted planimetric drawings and eerily-serene cityscapes that suggest the changing contours of urban settlements. They represent an idea of a degenerate futurism, yet one might find similar typologies and scenes in places such as the favelas of Brazil and North Africa, and in overpopulated cities such as Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai. Though outputted digitally, the drawings possess a textured and painterly quality as a result of combining hand-drawn sketches, industrial textures, surfaces of deteriorated paper, and digital architectural models.
A constant interplay between digital and analog processes is important in my work, resulting in a highly layered set of documents. The drawings presented here started out as digital images that were outputted, sketched and drawn over, and scanned back into the computer in order to be retraced, textured, and layered

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Incredible journey. Quite the eye opener and a very successful experience. I’m also very grateful not to be showering out of a bucket anymore.

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