More STRP Mutant by Bart Hess
Exquisite relation of the inner figure, loose gelatinous skin, and surface effects.
Volume Unwinding Into Surface
2GBX Studio/Wiscombe, Spring 2012. Second exercise, inflections in volume create razor-sharp surface edges/ Tattoos track with, and sometimes diverge from morphology. Joseph Ramiro and Koho Lin.
Fused Volumes, Massive Joints
2GBX Studio/Wiscombe, Spring 2012. Second exercise, fused volumes, massive joints, and graphic fraying of the joint. Stefano Passeri and Johannes Beck.
2-1/2D Surface
2GBX Studio/Wiscombe, Spring 2012. First exercise, using tattoos to enhance and/or obfuscate depth of underlying surface condition. Stefano Passeri and Johannes Beck.
Figures Stretching Surfaces
The cross-disciplinary work of Bart Hess, such as STRP Mutant, rides the fine line of revealing and obfuscating figures within rubbery, translucent sacks.
2011 SCI-Arc Vertical Studio: Surface-to-Volume Morphologies
Stuffed, delaminated surfaces. Student: Zidan Zhau.
2011 SCI-Arc Vertical Studio: Surface-to-Volume Morphologies
Implied outer shell. Student: Dong Ah Cho.
Implied Outer Shell
The ‘implied outer shell’ is a subset of surface-to-volume morphology, where a figure is nested loosely within an outer envelope which is incomplete. One implication of the implied outer shell model of architecture is the extension of a buildings interiority out into the civic realm.
Surface-to-volume III
The octopus is really more surface than armature. The nice transition between head-volume and musculature surface is coherent but not smooth.
Surface-to-volume II
The SR-71 Blackbird is exquisite in its extreme fluctuation between flatness and mass.
