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Embodied Environments

Summer 2024 – CED

As part of an intensive summer course at Berkeley College of Environmental Design, I worked on a series of three projects, each building from a two-dimensional image into a final, theoretical structure at a site on campus, incorporating a range of programmatic functions in a small space.

The project started with an assigned flat artwork, from which we had to take two square crops to become orthographic projections in a cube volume. Beginning with Josef Alber’s Transformation of a Scheme No. 9, my sections focused on abstracting and reinterpreting intersections of lines within the image.

My language took shape in the form of “pinch points” as I negotiated the images onto an orthographic projection of a cube. Lines became pleats, creases, or folds roughly based on line weights in each crop. For each side of the cube, every plane intersected with a single focal point.