3rd year grad school by Emerson Stepp at Coroflot.com

3Rd Year Grad School

3rd year grad school

This is a series of projects I worked on during the semester prior to Thesis. The topic of this studio was Living Machines: Biotechnical Adaptations within the Japanese Megalopolis?. I was also fortunate enough to travel to Japan in January of 2012 for a 2.5 week study abroad course and I included the work from that as well.

Invisible cities- Baucis- Invisible Machine - This was a fun little week and a half introduction project for my third year graduate studio. The project was to select one of the fictional cities imagined by Italo Calvino in his book Invisible Cities and design an "invisible machine" for that city that focused on concepts of the edge condition, the interaction between technology and nature, and the general themes of the story. My project is based off the city of Baucis, the city of eyes amongst the clouds.

Invisible cities- Baucis- Invisible Machine - This image is a visualization of the city of Baucis, the city of eyes amongst the clouds, imagined by Italo Calvino in his book Invisible Cities

Invisible cities-Baucis-Invisible machine - This was a fun little week and a half introduction project for my third year graduate studio. The project was to select one of the fictional cities imagined by Italo Calvino in his book Invisible Cities and design an "invisible machine" for that city that focused on concepts of the edge condition, the interaction between technology and nature, and the general themes of the story. My project is based off the city of Baucis, the city of eyes amongst the clouds.

Baucis Presentation Board 1 - This was a fun little week and a half introduction project for my third year graduate studio. The project was to select one of the fictional cities imagined by Italo Calvino in his book Invisible Cities and design an "invisible machine" for that city that focused on concepts of the edge condition, the interaction between technology and nature, and the general themes of the story. My project is based off the city of Baucis, the city of eyes amongst the clouds.
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Baucis Presentation Board 2 - This was a fun little week and a half introduction project for my third year graduate studio. The project was to select one of the fictional cities imagined by Italo Calvino in his book Invisible Cities and design an "invisible machine" for that city that focused on concepts of the edge condition, the interaction between technology and nature, and the general themes of the story. My project is based off the city of Baucis, the city of eyes amongst the clouds.
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Baucis Presentation Board 3 - This was a fun little week and a half introduction project for my third year graduate studio. The project was to select one of the fictional cities imagined by Italo Calvino in his book Invisible Cities and design an "invisible machine" for that city that focused on concepts of the edge condition, the interaction between technology and nature, and the general themes of the story. My project is based off the city of Baucis, the city of eyes amongst the clouds.
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Cities in the air-3D plan - This rendering was done as apart of a precedent study on the Japanese Metabolists, more specifically the project:cities in the air by Arata Isozaki.

Cities in the air-roof garden perspective - This rendering was done as apart of a precedent study on the Japanese Metabolists, more specifically the project:cities in the air by Arata Isozaki.

Cities in the air-3D plan 2 - This rendering was done as apart of a precedent study on the Japanese Metabolists, more specifically the project:cities in the air by Arata Isozaki.

Cities in the air-branch and capsule clusters - This rendering was done as apart of a precedent study on the Japanese Metabolists, more specifically the project:cities in the air by Arata Isozaki.

Cities in the sky-initial massing rendering - This rendering was done as apart of a precedent study on the Japanese Metabolists, more specifically the project:cities in the air by Arata Isozaki.

Section diagram - This rendering was done as apart of a precedent study on the Japanese Metabolists, more specifically the project:cities in the air by Arata Isozaki.