KOZAWSKA ALEKSANDRA

Aleksandra Kozawska from GdaÅ„sk, Poland.
Exchange student from University College London, UK.
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Task 1

Attribute	Description	Image Reference

Disturbing	Disturbing means to provoke thinking. It may be a bit anxious form which feels unstable or overwhelming. It is memorable by playing with human emotions. Broken haromony, tension between the elements of the system that may not fit together.	Reference 1: ZdzisÅ‚aw BeksiÅ„ski, a Polish paintor. His paintings embrace the surreal world of dreams and nightmares in a strongly graphical way.	Reference 2: communist residential architecture: grey concrete blocks of flats. â€žMachines for livingâ€, example of brutal architecture that often overwhelmes with its size.	Reference 3: Mozartâ€™s Requiem in D Minor. Mozartâ€™s last piece of music. It represents two opposite worlds: hell and heaven, their ethernal fight for human souls. Mozart combined minor and major musical scales to pass from one mood into another.

Graceful	Graceful means light, elegant in movement and in apperance. It reminds me of femminine figure wearing a light, elegant dress.	Reference 4: femminine figure in an fluttering dress.	Reference 5: light lace design. Lace is an openwork fabric, patterned with open holes. It is present in many folk cultures as a synonim to elegance.	Reference 6: hourglass reminds an ultimate example of femminine shapes: curved and cut in the middle.

Organic*	Organic shapes are smooth and natural, almost fluid. Shaped by the time they do not have sharp edges, they tend to merge with the environment, becoming perfectly intergrated.	Reference 7: stones processed by water	Reference 8: ameba as a primary organic form, extremely flexible and without any defined shape. It reproduces itself in a binary fission: subdivision of a parental cell into two parts.

Geometric	Geometric shapes equally fascinate mathematcians, artists and constuctors who look for perfect proportions and definition of beauty in their work. Moreover, basic transfromations such as symmetry, series or tesselllations allow to reach intriguing, repetitive patterns.	Reference 9:M.C. Escher, author of mathematically inspired graphics which feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.	Reference 10: Golden ratio, also known as the divine proportion. It is a number approximately equal to 1.618 often encountered when taking the ratios of distances in simple geometric figures. Closely connected to the concept of beauty in art, architecture and nature, it is considered to be the key to ideal proportions.	Reference 11: Pi number is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and is approximately equal to 3.14159. Because of the simplicity of its definition and its ubiquitous presence in formulae, Ï€ has been represented in popular culture more than other mathematical constructs.

(*) I decided to change one of my attributes from Organic to Geometric. However, I am aware that generative design is a continuous process and that any step/action should not be ereased. To emphasise this, I decided to keep all my references for Organic but in slightly faded colours.

Transformations:

To illustrate possible transformations, I decided to experiment with a simplified form of one of my attributes: Communist block housing.

The following transforming rules illustrated above:

More DISTURBING:
1. Divide, break the form along the lines.
2. Increase height
3. Increase vertical curvature
4. Contrast: change in sizes of the object parts

More GRACEFUL:
5. Open rounded holes in the form in a regular way
6. Make holes bigger and smaller in changes
7. Column of holes is transformed along curved, sinusoidal shapes
8. The whole form is transformed along curved, sinusiodal shapes.

More GEOMETRIC:
9. Harmony: change proportions according to the golden ratio value
10. Create axis of symmetry
11. Create series
12. Tessellation (tiling): fill the space with repetitive pattern

Examples of further transformations:

13. GEOMETRIC + DISTURBING : fold along the lines
14. GEOMETRIC + DISTURBING + GRACEFUL : increase concavity
15. DISTURBING (same as 4.)
16. DISTURBING + GRACEFUL : column of holes is transformed along curved, sinusoidal shapes
17. DISTURBING + GRACEFUL + GEOMETRIC : tessellation (tiling): fill the space with repetitive pattern

Task 2: Catalyst impressions

For my catalyst I chose a picture of Daniel Widrig's 3D printed design "Escapism Couture No.2*" (2011)

I made a nine drawings sequence where I interpreted my catalyst image:

Quote

The motto, or rather a quote, that I chose is by Polish writer, Bruno Schulz. It reflects upon the superficiality and temporality of the form.

"RzeczywistoÅ›Ä‡ przybiera pewne ksztaÅ‚ty tylko dola pozoru, dla Å¼artu, dla zabawy.
KtoÅ› jest czÅ‚owiekiem, a ktoÅ› karakonem, ale ten ksztaÅ‚t nie siÄ™ga istoty, jest tylko rolÄ… na chwilÄ™ przyjÄ™tÄ…,
tylko naskÃ³rkiem, ktÃ³ry za chwilÄ™ zostanie zerwany."

The motto is a popular Polish saying:

Powiedz mi z kim przystajesz, a powiem ci, kim jesteÅ›.
Tell me who you spend your time with and I will tell you, who you are.

Paradigme

From impression to project organisational scheme.
As a theme of my project I chose to design a chair/a stool.
I chose sketch nr 2 as my paradigme.