Perceptive Interactions

The objective of this study was to challenge the conception of space through the use of color, value, and light.  This interrogation began with a set of isometric color studies. These studies employed color and value to perceptively define dimensionality. Flat renderings were given an implied 3-dimensionality while 3-dimensional forms perceptively skewed to differ from their actual shapes.  These relatively simple illusionary studies helped to define a set of architectural principles which were then used to create a series of spatial relationship models. Within these models, depth, closure, and connections dynamically shift due to relationships between color, value, light, and orientation. These subtle nuances enable a dynamic conception of space simply through perceptive interactions.

- by Jason Askew

Inside the Bubble

by Johanna Brummer

Inside the Cube

by Burçe Karadag

The perception / deception / interpretation of space.

The perception / deception / interpretation of space.

Exploring the possibilities of spatial interpretation through hard lines by manipulating spacing, weight, and length. The conflicts between perception and conception are tested. 

...leading to a drawing series revealing parts of a whole - leaving the whole undefined
Conception taking control of perception.

by Chris Ardoin

Place Neurons in the Hippocampus

Place Neurons are located in the Hippocampus. These cells store information about spatial relationships from experience. The information is gathered and stored into a built network of storage spaces that are developed as the information is obtained. This scaffolding is manipulated and adjusted by the information that occupies it. 

Line : Edge

This study began with a series of x-ray perspectival drawings constructed through revealing only edges. The process of layering various edges begin to construct a spatial condition where edges can appear to move around, behind, through, out, or into the surface upon which they were drawn.

The notion of edges (lines) moving through space to form boundaries can be explored in three dimensions. By pulling the lines made from graphite out of the drawing plane into the z-direction with a stiff wire we have now another edge condition that exists without a normal surface background. When moving around the model, we experience the wire edges in fluctuation allowing several ways to perceive implied surfaces and depth.

This idea is then expressed in model form with wire, graphite and paper planes. Edges are moving through space, onto and through surfaces of this small environment.

- by Allison Johnson

Depth Perception

- Sama El-Saket

Invisible Cube

by Sijie Chen

Mindscape

Mindscape by Jai Bunnag

Shadow Construction

A project based on a series of studies diving into both two dimensional and three dimensional elements of shadow and object. This study works in the arena of ambiguity or in the arena of architecture, where both language and visual syntax play a large role. Our perception of space and depth can be developed in both three dimensional and two dimensional worlds, working back and forth, based on each other. How can shadows distort our perceptions of space? What do we expect from the information that shadows give us? How is space defined by shadows?

by Daniel Kim