This is one of the trace process sheets that I created when trying to find a decent parti to go along with my concept of "home." I took the lyrics from John Denver's "Country Roads" and took from it the key words: memories, crossroads, layers, and anxiety. You will be able to see in the drawing what looks like a mountain, red zigzag lines to represent anxiety, and organic shapes that represent the country. I got stuck a couple of times but pushed on, in hopes of coming up with something better. I finished with 40 squares of ideas and chose one from it. It is not shown on this sheet but it incorporated ideas from this. I am very proud of my finished concept. Brainstorming is a great way to get ideas down and now I utilize this effect when starting anything. I feel more focused and on track this way. This concept model was created from a parti taken from John Denver's "Country Roads." It was supposed to utilize the key words: layers, motion, and zigzag. The layers come from the memories within the song and how they appear in layers and not uniform. The motion comes from the road and how the author is in his car the entire way through the song. The zigzag represents the anxiety the author feels when in his car when he needs to make decisions and is far from home, making everything that much harder. The way I constructed this concept model was to have organic shapes, symbolizing the country, hung side by side onto a stick with zigzags on it. The shapes are colored red on the edges to represent pain in the memory but blue on the insides where the good feelings reside. When in your hands, you can twirl the shapes around the sticks; the oblong structure makes the motion appear more varied and inconsistent, like life. This was a wonderful way to get my concept off paper and aided in my design of the kitchen I next turned to. If I were to do it again though, I would put more time in the materials and make the stick out of wood. Funny thing too, when I was setting the model down, to keep it from falling to one side, I opened it up like the photo above and it looks like a human heart a little!
This is one of the trace process sheets that I created when trying to find a decent parti to go along with my concept of "home." I took the lyrics from John Denver's "Country Roads" and took from it the key words: memories, crossroads, layers, and anxiety. You will be able to see in the drawing what looks like a mountain, red zigzag lines to represent anxiety, and organic shapes that represent the country. I got stuck a couple of times but pushed on, in hopes of coming up with something better. I finished with 40 squares of ideas and chose one from it. It is not shown on this sheet but it incorporated ideas from this. I am very proud of my finished concept. Brainstorming is a great way to get ideas down and now I utilize this effect when starting anything. I feel more focused and on track this way.
This concept model was created from a parti taken from John Denver's "Country Roads." It was supposed to utilize the key words: layers, motion, and zigzag. The layers come from the memories within the song and how they appear in layers and not uniform. The motion comes from the road and how the author is in his car the entire way through the song. The zigzag represents the anxiety the author feels when in his car when he needs to make decisions and is far from home, making everything that much harder. The way I constructed this concept model was to have organic shapes, symbolizing the country, hung side by side onto a stick with zigzags on it. The shapes are colored red on the edges to represent pain in the memory but blue on the insides where the good feelings reside. When in your hands, you can twirl the shapes around the sticks; the oblong structure makes the motion appear more varied and inconsistent, like life. This was a wonderful way to get my concept off paper and aided in my design of the kitchen I next turned to. If I were to do it again though, I would put more time in the materials and make the stick out of wood. Funny thing too, when I was setting the model down, to keep it from falling to one side, I opened it up like the photo above and it looks like a human heart a little!
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