Students: Ashley Sholder, Pompay Zhu
Studio Title: Manferdini-Vertical FALL2012 – unFamiliar Matter
Instructor: Elena Manferdini

Carved in Stone explores the relationship between fine grain and geometry, the illusion of depth, and the fusion of synthetic and natural materials. The use of rich texture with exotic coloration and dramatic fractures across a field of mosaic bricks establishes a parallel surface network, one that alternately camouflages and reveals each brick’s topography while at the same time displays a dizzying complexity over it’s macro organization.
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Students: Brian Harms, Haejun Jung, Vince Huang, Yuying Chen
Studio Title: Kruysman-Proto Senimar FALL2012 – Eye,Robot
Instructor: Brandon Kruysman / Jonathan Proto

This project involves the “animation” of a series of toolpaths where each “frame” is successively altered (based on a simulation of mesh relaxation in Kangaroo).
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Students: Ago Viola
Studio Title: Manferdini-Vertical FALL2012 – The Painterly,Thickened.
Instructor: Elena Manferdini

The strength of this investigation resides in the affect that is produced by the abstraction of a recognizable figure and form. The tension spawned by the material to form relationship has been a primary tool. This project attempts to further augment the tension between material application and the sensibility produces by the curvilinear, oscillating form, specifically between the sharp, heavy and jagged stone and the viscid octopus arms.
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Students: Maria Kuzminskaya
Studio Title: Applied Studies Fall Senimar FALL2012 – Coding Form
Instructor: Satoru Sugihara

The software Processing was used for traffic simulation of an urban design project located in the West Side of Los Angeles. White and yellow points have different speeds and it responses car traffic and pedestrian movements.
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Students: Alicia Chola
Studio Title: Wiscombe Vertical Fall2012 – ESTm/The Sack

The project investigates the nuances of the “box in the box” issue. The initial studies are focused on aggregation of multiple figures and developing their relation to outer skin – the “sack”. In this case the combination is torn apart and the figures are aggregated again in two independent clusters. The space in between is filled with another volume – the “liner”.
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