... wild flowers
With gold dipped edges and wandering pixelation, this series inflates, puffs and rips open a delicate tulip. A usually paper-thin tulip is inflated and swollen at the edges, then broken to reveal multiple layers and scalloped scars. The form plays between skin and fat, synthetic versus real.
The binge-ful, almost sinful, fun of having superfluous geometry and excessively slow to render materials are contrasted with fast low sample renders. Renders at four resolutions and speeds are overlaid and selectively erased according to shadow and content. Fast rendering materials are contrasted with slower layered subsurface scattering shaders, giving equal aesthetic weight to a 0.4sec render compared to a four-hour render. Wildflower is a total polycount versus render time binge, in full support of overindulgence wherever possible.
... three ways
Projected Installation
"3 Ways"
Architecture + Design Museum, June & July 2018
Los Angeles
Executive Curator: Anthony Morey
Guest Curators: Ivan Bernal & Ryan Tyler Martinez
Special thanks:
Albert Chavez (sounds & audio mixing)
... frayed
3-month Solo Show at AplusD, Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles
... frayed & polished
MArch II Graduate Thesis
Southern California Institute of Architecture
SCI_Arc
Thesis Advisor: Hernan Diaz Alonso
Thesis Prep Advisor: Marcelyn Gow
... frayed not polished
Installation
"The Rendezvous"
One Night Stand, May 2016
Downtown Los Angeles
Special thanks:
Duygan Inal, Albert Chavez, Eastbridge Studio
Photo Credits:
Rachael McCall, Rosemary McCall, Albert Chavez, Leonora Bustamante, One Night Stand LA (Ryan Tyler Martinez, Danny Arrondo & Gina Carson)
... gold leaf house
SCI-Arc | 3GBX Project
Instructor: Hernan Diaz Alonso with Ivan Bernal
April 2015
Artist's Apartment & Studio - Secession Hall, Vienna
Surfaces to Flowers, Masses to Flesh
... grand palais
SCI-Arc | 3GAX Project
Instructor: Hernan Diaz Alonso with Ivan Bernal
November 2014
Glass, Gloss, Smoke & Mirrors
... withdrawn
SCI-Arc | 2GBX Project
Instructor: Marcelo Spina
Partner: Jill Koenigsknecht
Mixed Use in Santa Monica - Massing & Windows
... incompatible objects
SCI-Arc | 2GAX Studio
Instructor: Florencia Pita
Partner: Adrian Cortez
Emerson College - Film School Sunset Blvd
... macaron & croissant
SCI-Arc | Visual Studies Project
Instructor: Elena Manferdini
3D Scanned Macaron & Croissant were embellished to form a 2.5D Landscape in ZBrush, inspired by the purple reflections on the salt flats in Utah.
... scripting exact forms
SCI-Arc | Visual Studies Class
Instructor: M Casey Rehm
Partner: Jill Koenigsknect
2D Drawings produced in 'Processing' through scripted code and converted into a 3D artifact. The work was based on the thick brush strokes and painterly affects of a Polish acrylic painting of a sail boat with birds flying around it, as well as, the striated sensation of Francis Bacon's Pope.
... still life
SCI-Arc | Introduction to Digital Design
Coordinator: Elena Manferdina
Still Life in Maya based on Ernst Haekel Drawings
... dalian tectonics
SCI-Arc | Applied Studies Seminar
Instructor: Marcelo Spina
Partners: Adrian Cortez, Amanda Stjernstrom & Arjun Hosakere
Tectonic Analysis of Dalian International Conference Center by Coop Himmelb(l)au
... extremophiles
Advanced Design Workshop with XAtelier
Instructors: Erick Carcamo & Nefeli Chatzimina
Energy & kinetics – design a structural armature for an artificial landscape which is capable of regenerating energy to sustain itself and its surroundings, look into developing a mechanism that builds a cellular logic of repetition, multiplication and mutation of a unit.
... inverted theatre
Lund University | Studio Project
Instructor: Matt Fajkus (UT Austin)
Critics: Sir Peter Cook (London)
Aberlardo Gonzalez (Architect, Malmo)
John Cramer (Lund University)
David Garcia (Henning Larsen, Denmark)
... a bus stop
Advanced Design Workshop with XAtelier
Instructors: Erick Carcamo & Nefeli Chatzimina
An Urban Accessory for Athens
... uq art museum
University of Queensland | Fifth Year Studio Project
Instructor: Luis Feduchi
Extension to the James & Amelia Mayne Art Gallery at the University of Queensland
... terrace market
University of Queensland | Fifth Year Studio Project
Instructors: Andrew Wilson & Paul Hoxton
City market in residual small urban spaces
... kangaroo point bridge
University of Queensland | Technology & Engineering Project
Instructors: Greg Killen (ARUP) & Ben Howard (AECOM)
Partner: Nicola Eason
Proposed Pedestrian Bridge for Brisbane River
... urban tetris
University of Queensland | Fourth Year Studio Project
Instructor: Marci Webster Mannison
Neighborhood Retrofit
... the hinge
University of Queensland | Fourth Year Studio Project
Instructor: Michael Dickson
Retrofit of existing office building and new office tower
... garden depository
Japan Studio | 4-Day Workshop
Instructors: Brit Andresen, Tom Heneghan & Doug Neale
This satellite visitor’s center, to Kengo Kuma's Asakusa Tourist Information Centre, Tokyo Japan
... urban farming
Lund University | Weekend Workshop
Instructor: CJ Lim (Bartlett, London)
Partners: Sara Sand, Miriam Strasser and Ace Echols
Urban Farmer's Embassy
... performing droplets
Lund University | One-week Workshop
Instructor: Erick Carcamo
Critics: CJ Lim (Bartlett, London)
Aberlardo Gonzalez (Architect, Malmo)
John Cramer (Lund University)
David Garcia (Henning Larsen, Denmark)
Morten Lund (Journalist, Stockholm)
Lecture Theaters & Student Spaces
... the Queenslander
University of Queensland | Third Year Studio Project
Extending the typical Queensland House into the 'side yards'
... les Halles
University of Queensland | Research Elective
Instructor: Susan Holden
'Paris Urbanism' introduced students to Paris from 1840-2000. The history of the market district in Paris, Les Halles, was taken on as a subject for investigation from the 1880s to now.
... toy block mask
University of Queensland | Japan Studio
Instructors: Doug Neale & Brit Andresen
Relating to van Schaik’s interpretation of Soane’s work in terms of toy blocks, analysis of the Casa Suzuki house by Bolles+Wilson as toy blocks and interstitial shadows and finally Leonard da Vinci’s Anatomy of the Face.
... uq hartley teakle research centre
University of Queensland | Second Year Studio Project
Extending the Hartley Teakle Building to develop study and lounge spaces for post-graduate research students.