Titled: "The Raft to Reformatory Refuge"

Titled: "Edge of Earth" (SOM model)

Titled: "City City Where are you?"

Sketch the Experience & Draw the Highrise

Once more I find myself on the brink of stress and ultimate enjoyment! Finally, the once prevailing "form" design has left and opened the 'Gates to Gestalt Design.' A mere impression of my physiological design style--an invention of mine.

It started before my phenomenology days. Slowly I developed an intent through game design. With the use of 3-days strait in a workshop and surrealist music, the Art-form was born. By asking questions either by yourself or with a group, your subconscious mind opens the imagination to the building: the materials, the experience, the senses, the people & the time. As you progress through the building in your mind, you find patterns, connections, notes and way-points. These images form an experiential design. The influence is powerful and mighty.

My dear friends Joe and Ari were the official tested. They are held in great honor and glory!

The Market - built under the highrise

An Atrium Space

The midway Green-space

Dear Highrise Project,
   
         I have written you a letter 97 pages to end.
Why shan't you write me back?
I try despretly to design well for you.
Is it not enough?  
Do you need more of my time that I do not possess?

Farewell till we meet once more--at least until Saturday.

Love,
Jeremiah

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Defining a Site

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A Structure Mo'del of the Jin Mao To'wer

How shall something stand?
Suspension Cable?
Sheer Tower?
Pillar?
Arch?

A Poem for Highrise

My dear friend the highrise
How lovely can thee be?
To give me so much work to do
and let me out to see

Then pound me like an oil rig
to pull out the wee last bit
and out comes my toil and labor
as black as a crow at night

What would I do without thee?




Once again, I labor for many hours to bring the design to the next level. It is never ending--but that is what drives me on. Can I foster the growth of something special? Can I develop a masterpiece?

A nearly quick drawing using Sumi ink, ballpoint pen and Chartpak Markers, my partner Joe and I worked to lay some groundwork. With large newsprint papers we set out to shape a glimpse of the current highrise design. Again, I am against the use of Form to shape a building it does not mean it is useless in the least. All experiences generate ideas. This is just a round about way to hit the nail on the head so to speak. Designing for experience rather than look should be paramount!

The Critique Circle

Wall of drawings

The highrise section/elevation

Mid Height Greenspace

Suspended Cables and Birds

A narrative

"My Dear Friends a Ransom Note"

"Take One Capsule"

"The Piano Display"

Dilatory:
Am I thee that speaks little to a large extent? 
Do I find myself hidden by obligations other than those of importance?

aWordPoembyJeremiahJohnson

A Site of Wonders a Trip through space

 “Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”
Carl Jung

"As an Architect (student) I live for the thrill of space design." 

 Inspired by many and built by few, is a well crafted moment in space. 

Provoked to administer medication to the ill sheep of technology

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phenomenological architecture fosters experience as a connection to materiality.

What have we lost that binds us to some oblique 'lit box?' 

Can it be our minds?

Break free, experience the world through the senses & understand past the fishbowl.

We sit in layers in layers in layers in layers in layers of fishbowls. We are watched from all angles as we wonder through life aimlessly chanting our popular hype.

The world was made--nay--crafted from pure imagination. We have built a system of prototypical responses to our environment and surroundings. 

What can design do? 

What may it do more?

These are the questions we must ask ourselves while Art shapes in our minds. Art comes in many forms including:

+well put together ice-cream cone

+imagined story line

or

+a stick placed neatly on the ground

Skill my dear friends crafts Art. The skill in the hands, the mind, the eyes,

The senses.

May we understand phenomenology now?

We think and materialize through our senses. 

Our creations are from creations learned subconsciously.

We know what works and 'feels' by our past. Our present comes from our past.

May I now share a few mere humbled photos from San Francisco?

May they wet your appetite? 

May they provoke your senses?

I have hit the typewriter now.

Crafting a Gift 2

The wedding stands
The bridegroom sits
The ladies talk
for nothing is amiss

---the phenomenology of another wedding gift---

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photograph a square flower

declare a point towards the center

to fold the bottom in and past

and fold the top very far

By cutting corners

on all four sides

will take a gander

to double tape the corner drape

so we can finish with a push of the finger

Crafting a Gift One

For a wedding.
A gift brings joy.
What better to make,
Than something coy

 ---experiencing a wedding gift---