Here is an example of the process of breaking down the linkage space. I am going to go through this in an excruciatingly step by step fashion in an effort to better explain everything I am working on. A lot of the steps I will complete will look/be very minor when considered individually, but should produce a developed space/zone en mass.
I will continue to post on this as I work through it.
Linkage Space Isolation
Here the linkage space is simply identified using the 25% opacity black. Though it is alone in space right now, we could begin to layer this and the subsequent drawings for the final presentations.
Transparent/Opaque Identification
For this operation, I completed an elevation diagram identifying solids which seemed to cap what could be transparent zones. This diagram worked with the already existing micro-cuts, as well as the surrounding forms not seen in this particular isolated view. Transparent zones are identified using 20% opacity blue green (R=0, G=120, B=255), and opaque zones are identified using 25% opacity black.
Sub System Identification
Here I am Identifying the opaque zones which seem to follow a different set of formal rules. I could see trying to develop each one with a particular tectonic/formal quality in order to clearly express how they operate differently within the whole composition. The first (and largest) sub-system is identified using the original 25% opacity black, the secondary is identified using 40% opacity black, and the tertiary is identified using 50% opacity black.
Sub-System Micro-Scarring
Micro-Scarring is used to break down the primary sub-system using the floor plates and other significant/opportunistic geometries as guides. This brings the scale of the objects down to a more human scale.
Phase Shift
In order to develop the rhythmic nature of the diagrammatic elevation, selective geometry is shifted from the primary sub-system to the transparent system, and back to the main composition. In making these decisions, I was looking at everything involved, not just the isolated pieces. In general, I am flipping between isolated, and un-isolated to develop the entirety.
Striation
The primary sub-system is further divided using a series of rules. This is done to further develop the sub-system's individual tectonic, and to emphasis the lengthy nature of the particular space/zone. Due to the number of dashed hidden lines created in this step, I had to give them all an opacity of 25% in order to maintain drawing readability.
Here is the linkage space back in it's context. It is beginning to develop its own particular tectonic nature within the whole.
Tertiary Shift
The tertiary sub-system is shifted outward from the skin to develop it as an object within the linkage space/zone. This was done to emphasize the fact that it was already being perceived as an object due to it's minor scale and detachment from main opaque sub-systems.
The tertiary sub-system is shifted outward from the skin to develop it as an object within the linkage space/zone. This was done to emphasize the fact that it was already being perceived as an object due to it's minor scale and detachment from main opaque sub-systems.
Aperture
The tertiary system is shelled to create an aperture for outward viewing, and the floor plates within the aperture are extended slightly outward. This is one of those times when a smaller object within the space/zone is becoming a sub-space. In the end, though we identify the linkage space originally as a whole space, it is becoming a series of spaces which comprise a linkage zone. In regards to this, we will have to be careful in how we explain each project's process.
Lateral Cuts
Here I break the scale of the transparent system using cuts across the objects laterally. These cuts are based on floor plate locations.
Sub-System Micro-Scarring
Micro-Scarring is used to break down the secondary sub-system using pre-existing guides. This breaks up the onject allowing for future operaopbility scale.
Sub-System Subtraction
For this step, I subtracted from the secondary sub-system wherever floor plates passed through.
