my design work in and out of architecture school.luis@legildesign.com
Other Design
Woven Bookshelf
This bookshelf idea drew from the structure envisioned for the proposed Reflect sculpture. The structure consists of half-inch plywood strips that are woven into a hexagonal grid pattern and tied together in compression via three stiff shelfs and two concrete feet. The finished bookshelf with concrete feet. The first finished side. […]
Reflect
“Reflect” was my proposal for a public art competition on a piece of land on Brattle Street near Harvard Square. The proposal uses common building techniques and materials to erect a monument intended to provide a space for individual contemplation on the state of our housing stock in the United States. The brief project narrative […]
The Way of the Dinosaurs
I created this piece entirely in Processing with minimal post production. The algorithm processes a specified set of characters in a number of specified fonts to extract the perceived “brightness” of a character on a blank background. This information is then used to plug the best matching characters into a matrix of sample […]
The Ghost in the Machine
I more stumbled up this than created it outright as I was experimenting with some basic image manipulations in Processing. The actual script is very simple, but the results are quite fascinating if a bit eerie. The algorithm takes an image and subdivides it into a matrix of square samples and draws a diagonal that […]
Trianglephant
This triangular tessellation is an abstraction of an image and is generated through a script I wrote using the Processing programming language. I wrote the script to interpret an input image and give a resultant triangular tessellation with larger triangles representing brighter areas of the image and vice versa. After initial investigations/experiments I am very […]
TIMEless
This sculpture was a piece commissioned by the Superfront Gallery in Los Angeles for their exhibition, “TIMEless,” an exhibition exploring the 4d possibilities of space. I worked with Michael Fox of FoxLin to develop a sculpture based on a short story which Michael wrote titled “Nano City” (read it here). The story is of […]
Happy 2011
Yaay! It’s almost 2011! I’m posting this and I’m realizing that I haven’t updated this website in quite a while! My post of the 2010 poster is only a few posts back and that was a year ago! My 2011 resolution? Update the site more frequently. There are a lot of projects missing on this […]
Parametric Coffee Table Design
I’ve had the idea for this coffe table for a while. I’ve finally gotten around to making it.