Instructions:
- Take an uncut piece of foam board from the pile.
- There are 9 squares drawn on the uncut piece. Leave the center square.
- For however many years you have attended Wentworth cut out that many of the blocks from the piece. The blocks that you choose to cut are completely up to you.
- Place some tacky glue on the Center Square and glue it to the other cut squares. Make sure when the object is glued to the other cut squares, that a square is maintained in plan.
I began with a 24” x 36” canvas; I viewed it as 3 dimensional composition, rather then a flat plane. The canvas was divided into 3”x3” squares and each square was then sub divided into 9 equal squares. (Diagrams Above) By giving the students a choice of what square to cut, they were able to look at what was already there and make an overall composition filled with varying atriums throughout the space. I felt like this would be a good idea for a campus building. This idea allows each student to design a floor of the building they would inhabit.
An interesting moment in the composition was when one student cut the center of an outer square leaving just the outline. This was the only student who did something other then cut out a full square. Students after him decided to leave their openings above that space and make that into a special moment.
The simple and strait forward process in this project is interesting because it still allows for a very unique outcome. The process seems very architectural. It's easy to imagine a building being designed and constructed using a similar process.
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