Torque Carving

Critic _ Andrew Saunders, Spring 2015

Light refraction as a vehicle of deriving geometry. Torque Carving creates a new envelope from light rays that divide at specific angles of refraction and simultaneously torque to full or partial inversion. The transposition that these lines create comes in the form of a hyperbolic surface. Once it invades a new normative envelope dictated by a parti, various space conditions and effects are created, including a gradient in the density of topology, seamless transitions between the interior and the exterior, and explicit normative edges. The program was developed according to Nolli map conventions - certain programs playing the “figure” to the other programs “figuring.”

_ Published in AD Magazine Vol. 86 Evoking through Design in the article "Figuring Mood" by Andrew Saunders
_ Featured on suckerPUNCH
_ Nominated for PennDesign's 2015 Design Award
_ Exhibited at PennDesign's 2015 Year End Show