READY TO BUILD

The fashion industry has it’s ready to wear collections.  Why don’t architects have their Ready To Build collections as well?

For a quick update on tReady To Build in Transparent Drawing, these pages have examples:
–Ordinary Building Japan
–Folding Wings
–Heroic Lines

Our Ready To Build collection demonstrates that a built form can be quickly realized from very diverse sources of knowledge.   Just like in the fashion world, our RTB solutions, while more generic, still offer a unique flavor.  And you can quickly get to a RTB solution using the Drawing from Drawing mode.  In typically two drawing iterations, the development of a fresh, exciting and resolved form is easily produced.  It is resolved.  You can move directly into pragmatic concerns.

The drawing at the bottom of the page is ready to build.  The drawing at the top is the first iteration.  And the two examples on the left are the inspiration.  The top image is an example of parametric modeling.  The other example is an Ellsworth Kelly plant drawing.

Hopefully, you get the sense of how the top drawing was created from the inspirations, as I employed a loose Form Dimensionalization from the basic geometry.  Now, you might reasonably ask, how did the bottom drawing get generated from the top?  The basic gestural concept of the top drawing was a series of forms that was more or less repeated, or you might say shadowed, with two line qualities and two color tones.  From that gestural concept, I simply did two simple gable, forms, with the same line quality, color and offset.  Another question you might ask is, are the solutions below buildable?  Sure.  I can easily imagine two offset gable forms, each clad in a unique material.  Dumber things have been built.

The pathway to knowledge demonstrated in this Ready To Build presentation gives a mode of free expression while solving problems.  Fresh and unexpected forms are created that you would not have generated otherwise.  And these are via the use of a very open drawing pathway.  After all, it is the creativity and expression which is why any of us went into design in the first place.  We want to express ourselves.  And we want to solve problems at the same time.  The means and methods of Transparent Drawing are one path to get us there.