Personal Narrative: Origami
Ever since I was little, I expressed energetic interests in architecture and art, ranging from my obsession with origami to countless trips to The Getty Center in Los Angeles to my admiration of the towering skyscrapers in New York City and classic Colonial homes in Connecticut. Additionally, I have been devoting a significant portion of my life studying classical piano since I was four years old, and I have earned many notable honors throughout my music career so far. Origami has been an integral part of my life as an interest and hobby. During my junior year in high school, I came to recognize that architecture, a combination of various forms of artistic expressions, is the perfect field for me; and I aspire to significantly contribute to
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We cooperated with an architect, a family friend, to completely reconstruct our house, making many additions. I personally witnessed countless times my parents sitting at the dining table with our architect discussing details, reasoning, and logic behind various designs. I remember hearing discussions regarding details as miniscule as the ridgeline of the roof and the special perception throughout the rooms. The aesthetics of every detail had to be considered, while still accounting for functionality and practicality. For instance, we had to relocate the staircase at one point and add a wall in order to maintain the structural integrity of the whole house in precaution against earthquakes in Southern California. In an efficient building, space is utilized artfully and cleverly to create improved form and function. I came up with the idea of using the cavity beneath the staircase as a compartment for our two dogs to sleep in. Architecture is a personal art, and architects must design anything with the occupants and consumers in mind. The personality or style of a design must also be acknowledged, as style is a means of identifying an architect’s work. Through this project I realized that the practicality, aesthetics, functionality, and style of architecture must all be considered when designing essentially anything and
We cooperated with an architect, a family friend, to completely reconstruct our house, making many additions. I personally witnessed countless times my parents sitting at the dining table with our architect discussing details, reasoning, and logic behind various designs. I remember hearing discussions regarding details as miniscule as the ridgeline of the roof and the special perception throughout the rooms. The aesthetics of every detail had to be considered, while still accounting for functionality and practicality. For instance, we had to relocate the staircase at one point and add a wall in order to maintain the structural integrity of the whole house in precaution against earthquakes in Southern California. In an efficient building, space is utilized artfully and cleverly to create improved form and function. I came up with the idea of using the cavity beneath the staircase as a compartment for our two dogs to sleep in. Architecture is a personal art, and architects must design anything with the occupants and consumers in mind. The personality or style of a design must also be acknowledged, as style is a means of identifying an architect’s work. Through this project I realized that the practicality, aesthetics, functionality, and style of architecture must all be considered when designing essentially anything and