STUDIES
This space is a repository for concepts, fledgling ideas, visual studies, and the like. Some of which may later develop into more complete projects, most will only see daylight here. With the creation of machine learning tools, it has become increasingly easy to explore these concepts through imagery. Not everything found here is A.I. generated, but the speed and ease of these tools allows for the creation of complex visuals near instantly. These images are never a perfect match for the pure idea, they are limited by language, however in their inaccuracies countless compelling moments can be found.
This only represents a small selection of the concepts explored. To see much more you can visit the WROT Instagram profile.
Tacky Connections
2023 | Elastic material bridge celebrating the gap
Iterating options for a material bridge detail.
Fluid Assembly
2024 | Fabricated stone formations
Studies of space and form through the language of viscus matter, then locked into a solid state. Carved in marble these spaces give an illusion of a newly discovered geologic anomaly.
From Sand and Stone
2024 | Minimalist Studies
Massive cast structures emerging from an onyx landscape of sand and stone. Abstracted vertical extensions of the landscape.
Substructure Incision
2024 | What lies beneath
Penetrating the superficial surface to expose a shift in structural language at the threshold. Revealed at the point of entry, the clean outer skin is excised. Spilling into the façade, the structure becomes celebrated ornament.
Grain
2024 | Imprinted occupation
Soft contact interiors. Materials that leave a trace on contact revealing patterns in habitation. The oils on our hands and the shifting weight in our movements treat these interiors as a canvas, marking touch.
Shifting Sands Field Labs
2024 | Walking laboratories
A series of mobile labs to study the impact of micro plastics on microbial and small marine life in littoral regions.
13 Chambers
2024 | A retrospective on the equipment that changed the food industry
A fictitious exhibit of the first generation of industrial scale surrogate protein life support systems. Making the leap from a invitro meat to supermarket shelves required the creation of complex hermetic industrial equipment.
Perpetual Figure Study
2024 | Process images of seemingly endless construction
Below are the original concept sketch and select images from a series of AI studies exploring the same idea. It was surprising how close the AI images were able to get to the original vision. The scaffolding and ‘the constructor’ were critical elements to the concept and the projecting a visual representation of process.
Prosthetic Structures
2023 | Retrofitted structural bracing for compromised buildings
Explorations in an aesthetic language for post construction structural appendages. Rather than disguising building repairs and structural adjustments behind the visual language of the building, these additions celebrate their performative appearance.
