pattern & geometry

The studio will continue with a design research phase and will accumulate 2D patterns, which form the genetic pool to generate evolutions of material systems later on. The field of exploration of geometries and patterns covers a range from the occidental to the oriental realm. Study and representation methods chosen are in a first step digital images and adjacent diagrams uncovering the underlying geometry as a 2D figure.

Magic number: choose 11

“Do you not see the greatness of our age resides in our very inability to create new ornament? We have gone beyond ornament, we have achieved plain, undecorated simplicity. Behold, the time is at hand, fulfillment awaits us. Soon the streets of the cities will shine like white walls” Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime (1908)

Adolf Loos dogma, postulated a century ago, established a modernist style code to be reassessed by entering into the realm of ornate pattern.

Reading: Schmidt, Patterns in Design; Agile Rabbit series; The world of ornament; Hauer;