The Project:
Given the instruction to create two models after researching and getting inspiration from architectural artist, Sol Lewitt, we were to tie in ancient jointery techniques to create a piece that focused on words. The first project of second semester, this project was quite a bit out of my comfort zone to use my hands and multiple tools in the wood shop. Overall, challenging, but also rewarding, I learned a new way to express my ideas that didn’t require sketching or a concept statement.
MODEL A
The Concept:
Model A explores the simple, but dynamic relationship through joints and geometry.
Model A explores the simple, but dynamic relationship through joints and geometry.
Inspired by the words interlocking and symmetry, the model exemplifies a connection through the various shapes included. Utilizing half lap joints and rabbet joints, the squares and triangle are seamlessly joined together. All equilateral and symmetrical shapes, the model shows a deep influence through Sol Lewitt’s ideals of art. By placing a smaller square inside the middle of the triangle surrounded by a larger square, the model is constantly interlocking. At any point of the model, another piece of wood is attached to the previous and so on to emphasize the fluidity and harmony of the piece. To emphasize the beauty of spatial relationships, the interlocking of symmetrical structures creates a unifying framework to encourage the sophistication of common objects.
MODEL A
MODEL B
The Concept:
Model B explores the multifaceted, yet single evolution of wood pieces. Individualistic but still interconnected, the wood shows an independence from one another in the rhythm and variety of thicknesses and joints included in the model. Inspired by the words intermittently and adjacency, the complexity of the structure is found through the coupling of pieces to create adjacent shapes. Joined together by various joints such as blind mortise, keyed mortise and tenon, and half lap, the wood has no common measurement and is intermittently scattered on the base wood. Influenced by the design of a totem pole, the model builds upon each other to show an unconventional, but balanced relationship of individual pieces coming together to form one structure. To encourage the unique concept of a nonconformist network of wood pieces, the structure explores the intermittent actions, but overall adjacency needed to have a successful design.
