Don't ask me why I titled this post the hands of God, it just sounded cool. Anyhow, my studio professor from last spring, Jason Austin of Austin + Mergold sent me an e-mail this morning asking me to send him some drawings that I did last spring so he could use them as examples for his current class (sweeeet).  So I looked through my files and found these two drawings which I think are awesome, so I thought I'd share. Enjoy.

What's going on world? It's been quite a while since I updated. A lot has happened since I last updated. I completed a competition for Bombardier's You-Rail Design contest alongside my collaborator, Dara King, and worked relentlessly on my Architecture portfolio. I'm going to post some images from the portfolio and hope you guys enjoy it.

Project 2 begins! I'm excited for this project. We were divided into teams of two (my team ended up with 3 people: myself, Rajesh Jose and Matiss Nigals). This phase of the project is to tear apart an existing house and diagram the quality existing within and without. Our house is "Maison de Verre" or House of Glass by Pierre Chareau. In short, this house is beautiful, and I thought I'd share it with you all. In the coming weeks I'll be updating with the progress of the assignment. For now, I'll leave you with pictures of this masterpiece located in Paris, France. Au revoir mes amis!

Yesterday was the review for project 01 of studio. The project essentially began with us being assigned a human trait, mine being "evader" and progressed into us defining the trait, making a drawing about it and then surveying a site with instances of the trait being manifested in the site. Once this site mapping was completed, we were to begin to design for an inhabitant of our choice and to program the space.

I can't believe I forgot to post these. This is the result of the 2nd phase of the final project from studio. I will add more pics soon...
-Ebun

...the final model!
So before I bombard you with pictures of my final model, I have a few things to say. first of all, I am exhausted, so much so that I, along with my other classmates, were falling asleep during the review! Not a good look! Seriously, after I was called on to explain my model, I just went to a corner and fell asleep. Overall, the responses to my model were very positive, which isn't to pat myself on the back, because the next phase of the design requires that we cut our model up into pieces (I know, right), however, I am proud of this model. I think it's the first model where I thought everything through (or almost everything) before I even cut a single sheet of MDF. this way, there were no surprises (except for when I glued the D2 piece in front of the D1 piece instead of behind it!) Funny enough, gluing took the longest out of all phases of the construction.

To me, good design is having an idea, pushing through and seeing that idea come to life. That was what I was going for with this model. A brief explanation of what you are looking at: the topography you see is "light" being treated as an agent of erosion. After this, I decided to create a "volume of light" which basically meant making a mass out of the "negative" pieces cut out of each MDF sheet and then glued together. Onto the pics, hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed designing/building this model.

what's up world! As you may or may not know, I go to school at Temple University in Philadelphia. Recently, I submitted this blog to be considered for a feature in the News paper as one of the "15 Best Student Artists" at Temple. It is not a rank, but rather just celebrating student art culture at Temple, and I am very lucky to be part of the group. I am really grateful for this, it may be small, but all great things have humble beginnings. Click Here to check out my feature. Click here for full feature of all 15 student artists

In other news, the final model is almost complete. The design phase is essentially done, I just have to glue things down and cut a few more things out, hopefully that can be done by tonight, because I have gotten very little sleep this week and it's starting to wear at me, BUT! I will keep going! I must! 'til next time, au revoir!

I'm still crafting the final model, here are some more pics of it as it slowly comes together. Enjoy

Wow, it's been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG day. I got to the studio around noon today and didn't leave to come home til 11pm. I sat at my desk for 11 hours straight, tracing the cardboard templates onto the MDF cutouts for my final model. Then I go to the woodshop around 4pm, and all the band saws are being used :( Great! Luckily, I was able to get a hold of a jigsaw and a thesis student lent me a Dremel sander (thanks Nick!) and it was ball game from then. I was able to cut all the pieces out with the jigsaw and then sand them down to perfection with the Dremel. All in all a very productive day, I would say. Onto the pics...

The before

The afters

My study model is complete!! This means NO all-nighter tonight, you have no idea how good this makes me feel....without further adieu....*drumroll please*

what's going on world? Here are some pics of my study model for my final model. I am not finished with the study, but hopefully I can be finished by thursday (has to be complete by friday). Enjoy.