Projects

This page features selected student works that were submitted for the class assignments. As is encouraged with the exercise prompts, and by nature of the design process, each of the resulting works for the exercises is highly individualized.

The following works are courtesy of Luisel Zayas-San-Miguel, and are used with permission.

ASSIGNMENTS DOCUMENTATION  
Planes This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 2 Presentation (PDF) Perspective drawing of two intersecting volumes.

Intersecting two geometrically similar volumes as part of a series of steps for a drawing.
Thickened Plane + The Explosion This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 3 Presentation (PDF) Perspective drawing of several planes in an almost closed-plane object with angles marked.

Closing a figure with planar surfaces
as part of a series of steps for a drawing.
This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 3 Axonometric (PDF) Drawing of many planes and projection lines.

Exploded axonometric drawing of a figure.
Measuring and Prototyping This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 6 Presentation: Bike Saddle (PDF - 4.0MB) Photograph of two white halves of a bike saddle mold.

Fabrication of a model of a bike
saddle produced by casting.
The Figure and Configure This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 7 Presentation: Inflation (PDF - 2.9MB) Rendering of black abstract figure with bubble-like bulges.

Rendering of a figure with discretized, inflated units.
Exercise 7 Video: Inflation of Discretized Units Screenshot of an abstract figure with discretized bulges on the left half.

Model demonstrating inflation of the discretized
units based on air pressure.
Exercise 7 Video: Construction Process Screenshot of curved grid lines defining a bulging surface.

SketchUp model demonstrating the construction
process and inflatability.
Promotion and Publication This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 8 Presentation: Inflatable Bike Saddle (PDF - 6.8MB) Rendering of the neon green cushion of a bike seat.

Rendering of inflatable bike saddle, an
extension of Exercise 7 and 8.

The following works are courtesy of Austin W. Smith, and are used with permission.

ASSIGNMENTS DOCUMENTATION  
Thickened Plane + The Explosion This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 3 Presentation: Dihedral Spike-Ball (PDF) Photograph of a cut and scored metal sheet.

Model in progress of the drawn figure.
This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 3 Axonometric: Dihedral Spike-Ball (PDF) Drawing of a polygonal all-like figure with faces called out by projection lines.

Exploded axonometric drawing of a figure.
Solid and Surface This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 5 Presentation: Topple (PDF) Two series of rotated lines that represent a closed vase-like figure.

Drawing of several lines to define a ruled surface.
Measuring and Prototyping This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 6 Presentation (PDF - 2.0MB) Image of a face with a triangulated and meshed figure over the left half.

Drawing of facial application preceding fabrication.
The Figure and Configure This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 7 Presentation: Surface Tension (PDF - 3.0MB) Repeated pattern of triangulated and arched connections.

Rendering of discretized units governed
by surface tension.
Promotion and Publication This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Exercise 8 Presentation (PDF - 1.7MB) Rendering of white arcs, green surface connections, and orange intersections over a figure.

Rendering of closed and curved surface,
an extension of Exercise 7.