Fox Fridays: 3D Modeling & Printing - Part 1

“Although the void devours the solid, the solid feasts on the void, i.e. its outsider. In compositions, the solid becomes hysterically gluttonous for the void.”—Reza Negarestani Cyclonopedia (2008)

Color-Form Model Workshop (Part 1): The following workshop will take place in two separate sessions. In Part 1, students will be introduced to the basic principles of architectural form. The purpose of this workshop is to develop a series of techniques for designing architectural objects through solid-void logics (architecture as a kind of stereotomic thinking). At the end of the workshop, participants will prepare their files for 3D printing, to be executed during the week in preparation for Part 2.

This session is primarily designed for beginners and intermediate-level students. However, there will be more advanced tutorials that are aimed at intermediate-level architecture students with previous experience. This workshop is open to any students in the Sam Fox School. Rhino, Maya, and 3D printing experience is a plus but not required. Beginners are welcome.
*An introductory lecture and a reading will be distributed, but the workshop is primarily focused on the production of physical prototypes.

Takeaways: Students will produce a 3D-printed model in multiple parts and will apply color to different components of the model with a variety of paint applications

Instructor: Hans Tursack is a designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned a BFA in Studio Art from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MArch from the Princeton University School of Architecture, where he was the recipient of the Underwood Thesis Prize. He has worked in the offices of LEVENBETTS Architects, SAA/Stan Allen Architecture, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. His writing and scholarly work have appeared in Perspecta Journal, Pidgin Magazine, Plat, Thresholds Journal, Log Journal, Dimensions Journal, Archinect, See/Saw, Acadia, and The Architects Newspaper. He recently received the Willard A. Oberdick teaching/design fellowship from the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture, a MacDowell Research Fellowship, an Art OMI: Architecture residency, a MASS MoCA artist residency, a University Design Research Fellowship from Exhibit Columbus, and an artist residency in Gapado, South Korea. He was the 2018-2021 Pietro Bellushi Fellow at the MIT School of Architecture + Planning and is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Sam Fox School.

Cross-disciplinary Connections: This workshop is aimed at all students in Sam Fox and would be particularly applicable to students studying architecture, graphic design, sculpture, painting, and industrial design.

Participants taking Parts I & II of the workshop will print their 3D models from Part 1 during the week in preparation for Part 2 and may need the assistance of the shop/3D Print Lab Supervisor.

Recommended Reading: Studies in Tectonic Culture by Kenneth Frampton (1995), Models by Axel Kilian, Chromatic Algorithms by Carolyn L. Kane, Color Outside the Line by Andrew Zago, Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular by Donald Judd, and Moving Vision by Anne Truitt.

**Color-Form Model Workshop (Part 2):** Part 2 will serve as an introduction to color theory for architects/3D designers. Participants will use their 3D prints from Part 1 for chromatic experiments (prints will be provided for those who only wish to attend the second workshop). In Part 2, participants will be introduced to techniques that set three-dimensional form and color/graphics into dynamic visual relationships. We will work through digital and analogue exercises to explore color-fields and textures in 3D. An introductory lecture and a reading will be distributed, but the workshop is primarily focused on adding color to the physical studies printed in Part 1.