http://www.ckmca.com/explorations/2009/12/17/penndesign-501-final.htmlckmca2009-12-17T19:47:03Z2009-12-17T19:47:03ZToday,  each of us has been transformed by the ease and dependability of communication.  Over 60% of the global population currently owns a mobile phone.  As technologies expand, these phone do more than just place and receiving calls, they have begun to augment our existence.  While in use, cell phones trend to put us in a state of isolation, in response to this my project creates "phone booths" that place visitors in spaces where they encounter reflections of themselves while generating an auditory and visually connected network.  The image of the individual is dissolved, projected, transformed and returned through a series of glass planes that begin to blur the line between broadcaster and audience.

Thanks to Julie Beckman (my professor), Dave Nix (for the rendering technique), and all my friends and family for the huge amounts of support.

 

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Time - visual, auditory, dimensional from chris mcadams on Vimeo.

My final animation for Fall Semester Visual Studies at PennDesign. Transforming a clock from visual to auditory then on to a dimensional field representing a series of memories.

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Presentation Boards available here and here (very large file size)

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So for the first project we were assigned to "reappropriate" an everyday object.  We are looking at the materials used in drinking coffee [cups, lids, sleeves, & filters].  Using many of those objects along with a fastener [brad, binder clip, rubber band, rivet, or paperclip] we are to generate a surface form with reflects on the purpose of the object.

Thankfully I found a restaurant supply company and bought all the materials I would need to investigate connect possibilities.  Initially, I began stacking and connecting cups together.  Cups seem to be the most block like object and would seem most suitable for generating a large built form.  I quickly found that the lids naturally want to be bound on the sides to form larger configurations.  The binder clips can give them both convex and concave forms which allow for spheres and helices.  

I still have a lot more investigation to do, and need to find a concept for the larger form in general, but i think the material properties of the lids, along with the nature of the connection is creating a great system to work with.

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So I am starting the next stage of my life in Philadelphia, PA.  Thanks to all my friends and family I will be attending Penn to chase after my Masters of Architecture.  The past months have been long, funemployment gets old quickly so I am thrilled to be getting back to architecture and hopefully diving deeper into what design means to me.

So far Philly has been great.  We had some rain the third day I was in town but over all the weather has been AMAZING!  Spending 4 weeks in Phoenix sure makes you appreciate 70 degrees.  I am living with a friend from high school who picked out a nice basement apartment right off of Rittenhouse Square .  The entire Rittenhouse area is one of the nicest parts of historic Philadelphia.  The streets are filled with people walking around, enjoying the many sidewalk cafes, and generally living the good life.

The new apartment is really growing on me.  Initially, the 30 some-odd soffits were a concern, but I am growing fond of them...they give this place character.  My room was initially a den and with the recent addition of a bathroom it is posing as a true bedroom.  It lacks a closet, but with some help from friedlt and Ikea, I came up with a storage area that I think is quite cool.

I had to ditch my box spring in Seattle so it was finally time for me to get a big boy bed (again courtesy of Ikea), I love that it has four massive drawers under the platform, providing ample space for most of my clothing.

I think I have a good home base to retreat too, when studio gets out of control, which should start sometime next week.  More info soon...I can't wait to get some of the architecture explorations up on the site.