360 QJD design logo - wildetecture

Drawing up logo designs that resonate upside down, sideways has became rather an architectural design obsession. Working more on the communication of shape and the translating into 3d building form was the first experiment. 

QJD and wildetecture was the design idea process. Architecture as pure design graphics and form, technology. Its being able to conceptualise design ideas 360 degrees. Buildings landscape into graphics is a strong wild design thread in the idea of architectural design. It starts with hyroglyphics and code and ends with structures that resonate for years into the future. Long after your dry bones are mere dust and nobody knows who the dang you even where. 

modern mountain homes - with a curve

having designed several homes with the mono pitch roof and the very very man made straight line - i decided with this project to introduce the curve. subtly in the cut of the roof sheeting and the fence line and in a few other areas. the homes are to be built on the mountain. my idea was to camouflage them into the landscape as much as possible - this is slightly achieved through color and the texture of stone cladding. the curve would just introduce a slight organic element to the mix - the purists of this style will lament this introduction I'm sure.
the homes have a glass element under the roof which gives the desired effect of a floating roof. the structure will be seen to be transparent and the mountain landscape behind will be seen through from the front. this heightens the underplay of the man made architectural element. not nearly enough to obliterate the presence of man - however enough to pay tribute to the cape fynbos in which the structures will live.
the double rafters peeking out from under the curved cut roof will give a very desired skeletal effect - an effect I'm slowly moving towards with every new client. i assume its a Gothic approach however let me not raise the Eire of another purist set. on another project i did propose a lynx eared dormer window which is of interest to me - however the client was not really ready for this radical departure from the norm.

cube to hexagon - case study 1- wildetect concept

I am really fascinated with shapes that switch visually between the 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional perspective whilst drawn in 2 dimension. Like a flat drawn cube changes to a hexagon when looked at in an orthographic view in 2 dimension. I try to apply this visual nuanced concept to the disintegration of perspective buildings i am roughly design sketching. Maybe the pyramids are a giant x which uses this concept of 3d form to 2d graphic on a scale earth canvas? A giant indelible X marks the spot from above. A 3 dimensional shape creating a X 2 dimensional image. This wildetecture Africa fauvistic creative design concept is now for me worth exploring.

Busy with some rough case studies. The idea that artist dabbled in scientific conceptualization inspired the cubists. Why shouldn't it fire a Muizenberg design creative 100 years hence?