PROJECTIONAL PROCESSIONS

This project is developed for the Hybrid Formations course taught by Volkan Alkanoglu. Two rectangular prism sized 12’x24’x6’ and 16’x48’x6’ were given, and we were asked to consider them as an object and the ground. Developing a relationship between the two and articulating them were the two aims set by the instructor.
Since there was no other parameter to transform these initial forms, we developed a self-contained system, that regenerates itself based on given rules. In order to transform these two in a way that a new type of relationship can occur, we played with the idea of geometric projection. Projectional Processions explores the interaction between flatness and three-dimensionality, self-generational systems

Firstly, a 2D axonometric drawing of the smaller rectangular prism is drawn. Then this drawing is ‘projected’ onto the initial object creating lines that wraps around it. This process is repeated with various axonometric projections from different points of view. The size and scale of the physical model limits the number of times that this process is repeated. As a result, two rectangular prisms becomes wrapped around with their own 2D projectional drawings. Later these lines used as a trigger for the carving process.

Articulated surface geometry of the object is unrolled over the ground in order to produce similar effects.