Arassi's

2006-04-13T12:22:00.000-07:00

Fitness Gym Description

“The crowd always wants to grow, within a crowd there is equality, the crowd loves density, and the crowd needs direction.”
Elias Canetti
Spatial Term
crowd: a group of people having something (as a habit, interest, or occupation) in common, a great body of people

To crowd is the term that my fitness gym going to focused on. As Elias Canetti describes the word in the quote above, I founded that the first field which I have built for the midterm contains and is able to apply to a spatial organization of the word crowd.
As you could see in my field there is curvalinear structure that emerged because of the angle of the triangular connector piece that I used. This curvalinear motions can create both hollow and dense spaces depending on the program of that moment. By examining the three exercises (push-up, situp, and speedbag) I came up with a diagram of the space for each exercise and then used those as my circulation diagram. This circulation diagram follows the original matrix terms and also how these exercise spaces can come together as a whole. My concept is to have the circulation diagram weaving through the spaces that the field already has. There are five different type of crowds that I am focusing on which are Open and Close Crowd, Slow and Quick Crowd and Rythmic Crowd. These different types of crowds will affect the original field and start to open up and weave through, so the field can start to be occupied by human for a fitness gym.

2006-03-30T12:19:00.000-08:00

Spatial Definition

expandable:
To increase the size, volume, quantity, or scope of; enlarge
To express at length or in detail; enlarge on
To open (something) up or out; spread out

crowded:
Filled near or to capacity
Filled with a crowd
Filled to such an extent as to be detrimental to the inhabitants

stretch:
Tending to be responsive or to react to a stimulus.
Characterized by reaction.
Chemistry & Physics. Tending to participate readily in reactions.

The act of stretching or the state of being stretched.
The extent or scope to which something can be stretched; elasticity.
A continuous or unbroken length, area, or expanse: an empty stretch of highway.
A straight section of a racecourse or track, especially the section leading to the finish line.

dense :
Having relatively high density.
Crowded closely together; compact: a dense population.
Hard to penetrate; thick: a dense jungle.
Opaque, with good contrast between light and dark areas. Used of a photographic negative.
Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity: a dense novel.
Slow to apprehend; thickheaded.

relaxed:
Not rigorous or strict.
Free from strain or tension.
Easy and informal in manner

rhythmic:
Of, relating to, or having rhythm; recurring with measured regularity.

circulative:
To move in or flow through a circle or circuit
To move around, as from person to person or place to place
To move about or flow freely, as air.
To spread widely among persons or places; disseminate

reactive:
Tending to be responsive or to react to a stimulus.
Characterized by reaction.
Tending to participate readily in reactions.

2006-03-30T12:06:00.000-08:00

Push-up/ to rise/ expandable

Push-up/ to collapse/ crowded

Push-up/ to rise/ stretch

Sit-up/ to compresses/ dense

Sit-up/ to decline/ relaxed

Sit-up/ to compresses/rhythmic

Speed bag/ to punch/ circulative

Speed bag/ to jab/ expanded

Speed bag/ to jab/ circulative

Speed bag/ to punch/ reactive

2006-03-27T14:08:00.000-08:00

Matrix Term

Push-up/ to rise/ crowed
Push-up/ to collapse/ revolved
Push-up/ to rise/ crowed

Sit-up/ to compresses/ packed
Sit-up/ to decline/ collapsed
Sit-up/ to compresses/ collapsed

Speed bag/ to punch/ circulative
Speed bag/ to jab/ expandable
Speed bag/ to jab/ circulative
Speed bag/ to punch/ expandable

2006-03-08T14:19:00.000-08:00

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2006-02-28T15:21:00.000-08:00

Turtle Curve or The Koch Curve

a mathematical curve, and one of the earliest fractal curves to have been described. It appeared in a 1904 paper entitled "Sur une courbe continue sans tangente, obtenue par une construction géométrique élémentaire" by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch. The better known Koch Snowflake (or Koch Star) is the same as the curve, except it starts with an equilateral triangle instead of a line segment. Eric Haines has developed the sphereflake fractal, a three-dimensional version of the snowflake.
One can imagine that it was created by starting with a line segment, then recursively altering each line segment as follows:
divide the line segment into three segments of equal length.
draw an equilateral triangle that has the middle segment from step one as its base.
remove the line segment that is the base of the triangle from step 2.
After doing this once the result should be a shape similar to the Star of David.
The Koch Curve is in the limit approached as the above steps are followed over and over again.

2006-02-27T12:02:00.000-08:00

Revision of Karl’s Recipe

Interstices
Nodes
Compartmental

Referring to the exercise routine in the beginning of the project, as well as my diagrammatic notations, I have found several terms and generators of my design. Taking a scientific approach and using the terms of a crystallographer, I began to view my field as a possible combination of two systems (bones and flesh). These two systems can be viewed on many levels, using dialectics such as cause and effect, compress and flex, and dynamic and static. In creating a rule set, I would like to refer to the “bone” system as a set of genes or nodes. Both of these terms imply a small portion of a larger system, however this small portion is determinate of the larger. This small determinate system must stem from the drawings and original data I have, the flesh system is slightly more flexible and deviant. Just as bones determine the level of density of the flesh, the nodal points or genes determine the amount and placement of the flesh in the model.

Fitness
Flexible
Elastic

In terms of fitness, my design follows a strict rhetoric of non-deviation from original data. Just as repetition and strict routine are important in terms of physical fitness, they are important for generative fitness of my model. Visually, my model explores concepts such as flexion and compression which relate to the static and dynamic terms scientifically. The collision, compression and flexion of the body are directly translated to the model. Just as exercise is a process of development, the model is also a process of development as it builds from previous data and current research. It is important to practice and repeat with precision and that is how development occurs physically. It is also the same rule set I am following in the creation of my model.

2006-02-22T14:47:00.000-08:00

Fitness Terms

Collision
Compression
Flexion
Both the diagram and the ground field both derive from the exercise routine that I have crate. The transition of the body and the rotation controlled by the elbow joint which is the flexibility point of connection of the body which every exercise tend to follow that connection. The motion of the body diagram is in such a rigid state that the body is traceable through out the sequence having the elbow as a data. The collision and compression of the body is also the focusing point which translated to the model. The mode has a compressing point which determined the lower level of the entire whole. Though there also some point which the exercise diagram translated to the model have the point of collision create such volumetric and add such density to the ground field.

Crystallography Terms
Static
Dynamic
Displace
In terms of crystallography and how it relates to the project, it probably how the project has the transition of movement though connects and bond to each other. Crystallography has the static point of connection which combines other molecules together. As same as the diagram which the moment repeats it self though still able to displace in position but still follow the rule set. This rule set determined how the diagrams create as a whole which have both static and dynamic elements translate from the exercise routine. The repeating body movement can be trance and locate the similar point of static or dynamic. Crystal’s structure created from the repeating molecules over and over but structured by such mediator. So the second ground field the model tends to base on similar structure of relation between individual module and mediator. In this case the model now try to collaborate the first ground which can be seen as a bone structure and the second model is try blend the skin in to create a whole. The concept of this model is to translate the static which is the bones structure with dynamic or skin structure though having the idea of bonding and repeating to create such geometric form as same as the crystal’s structure.

2006-02-21T05:24:00.000-08:00

2006-02-21T05:15:00.000-08:00

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