Chaos and Order is an abstract project from one of the Architecture
Studio classes I took in my fourth semester. For the project, we each
interviewed a classmate and designed a model which abstracted the chaos
and order in their lives. For mine, the circling walls of balsa wood
represent external sources such as family and friends. They're perfectly
circular and almost perfectly symmetrical as they primarily represent
order, but the uneven heights add a slight element of chaos. The wires
represent my classmate, as he said that most of the chaos in his life
was internal. Initially enclosed within the enforced order of the balsa
wood, the wires representing my classmate become more orderly as they
escape confinement, representing how he is learning to enforce his own
order as he matures.
The model was made and rendered entirely with Blender and Blender
Cycles. The materials and background elements (cutting board, table, and
exterior plant) came from the BlenderKit asset library.
Project Process - Planning + Brainstorming
The first step was interviewing my classmate and compiling a list of where he felt influences of chaos and order in his life came from, then consolidating it down to three key points. After that, I broke down those key points and started brainstorming how to symbolize those in a model.
