Form:uLA Dimension LAboratory: 2009

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

DP Phase 5, process study

created on a TabletKiosk Tablet PC

Moving closer to its "finished form"... awaiting transference to the realm of the new hybrid explorations

Monday, November 2, 2009

DP Phase 5, process study

created on a TabletKiosk Tablet PC

development study for new drawing typography, phase 5

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

New Drawing series- Hypermesh 03

Celebrating and exploring the diverse nature of topographical surveys, these hand drawings use Page Structure Theory to examine ideas of saturation, spatial fragmentation, and new spaceforms based on formal collisions.

Limitations of the media- micron pen instability… aged transfer letters… the fussiness of the page media… were used as informants to the process of the making, the anatomy of the drawing, as it were

this image is not complete

New drawing series- Hypermesh 02

“As the name implies, the agenda of Form:uLA Dimension Laboratory is to explore dimensionality, to see what happens when competing or conflicting modes of representation—graphic vs. sculptural, perspectival vs. axonometric, digital vs. gestural, Cartesian vs. temporal—try to co-exist. In these collisions of contradictory forms and functions, mechudzu emerges as a mutant but highly robust architectural entity.

The motif of Form:uLA’s design language is always the machine—the man-made in its most generic form. At first glance their drawings look like overly fussy mechanical diagrams, the kind you might see in Victorian-era equipment catalogs. But look more closely, and the drawings’ hybrid parts refuse to compose. In Hybridrawing no. 030801, for example, graphic figures (Japanese kanji, planes of binary code, directional arrows) collide and intersect with modeled forms (pipes, tubing, harnesses, levers, pulleys) in a space that oscillates uncomfortably between two and three dimensions. The assembled whole is defiantly abstract: the more you try to read the drawing, the more agitated the unresolved elements become. The overall effect is disorientation, and that is the point.

The drawing is clearly not, as architectural protocol would dictate, a set of building instructions or a depiction of a particular space. It does not obey the architectural mandate to construct a more perfectly-ordered world. Instead, it is an invitation to abandon order. The drawing itself is Form:uLA’s laboratory, a fluid, boundaryless, unpredictable environment in which every idea the two architects have—deliberate or accidental, serious or ridiculous, revolutionary or merely subversive—is let loose to metastasize.”

Ruth Keffer

Loudpaper

Volume 4, issue 3

Monday, September 21, 2009

testing the hypermesh waters

sample stitched together of a new large format hand drawing... the stitching of the mesh of the structure of the page.... plus the typologies of saturation...

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

shot no. 2

created on a TabletKiosk Tablet PC

development of the tentacles from the previous drawing

development shots

two new DP projects... "in the works". i have been asked quite a bit for "process shots"... so I thought i'd post since i remembered to save during the process this time :)

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

system frag

created on a TabletKiosk Tablet PC

Obtained a tablet form the generous peeps at Tablet Kiosk. Getting back into the DP after a year or so off. Trying to experiment, and this time restrict myself ONLY to WIndows Paint- using the parameters and restrictions of the program/interface to inform the drawing.

this is a test... this is ONLY a test...