ALEX TERZICH
terzich@gmail.com

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UNDERGRADUATE

Les Heures Claires
Minneapolis Light Rail Transit
Object-Abject

GRADUATE

One Fold Hot Pink
Finnish Embassy
Branded Office Space
Subjected Pythagoragraph
Meganamorphosis
World Trade Center
Earle Brown Elementary School
Andrew Zago Drawing Workshop

THESIS

Introduction
Pictures
Maps
Shadows
Exhibition

COMPETITION

First Step Housing

TEACHING

Escaping Flatland
Map City
New Typographics
Three-Dimensional Tiles

PUBLICATIONS

LNDMRK
Patti
Viva: Currency
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING

  Three-Dimensional Tiles
Princeton University School of Architecture
Digital Media Workshop
Fall 2005


This workshop takes the subject of tiles and tiling as an opportunity to learn drawing techniques in AutoCAD and Rhino. Of particular interest is the way this software enables us to find repetitive forms that can be tiled together into larger complex constructions.

With the emergence of CNC technology and mass customization, some argue that there’s no longer a need for repetitive modules. However, different processes have different advantages. Laser, water jet and CNC are "by the inch" machines, meaning that they can output custom parts with no particular economy of scale or advantage to repetition. The cost for cutting is determined by the inch; the machine does not care if those inches are assembled repetitively or not.

However, other manufacturing processes are still governed by repetition: vacuum forming, die cutting, stamping, casting. These techniques require the construction of a mold or die which has a significant upstart cost that can usually only be justified through large runs of a single part. This workshop focuses on three projects that employed such techniques. It uses them as a taking off point for learning various drawing commands in AutoCAD and Rhino and as a way to begin thinking about the relationship between modeling and manufacturing.

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