Yifei Yuan

1. Core I: Times Square Billboard Garden
2. Core II: W • A • L • L - More Highschool
3. Core III: Courtyard House
4. Advance IV: A City Run By The Youth
5. Advance V: New York Industrial Dairy Farm Tower
6. Advance VI: Olkaria Geothermal Steam Pipe Hacking Train
7. 2GB: University of Curiosity
   
8. 1GB: The Diptych kindergarden
   
9. The Room As ...
10. Vertical Transportation & Structure
11. Desert Oasis
12. /æ/
    

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/æ/ Course: 1GB VISUAL STUDIES Year: SPRING 2018 Instructor:  ANNA NEIMARK
             MATTHEW AU
Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It was also used in Old Swedish before being changed to ä. It was also used in Ossetian before switching back to its Cyrillic counterpart. As a letter of the Old English Latin alphabet, it was called æsc, "ash tree". is a ligature of the lowercase letters "c" and "t". It is formed by drawing a round, leftward line from the top of the "t" onto the top of the "c". In Greek the consonant cluster ct is spelled "KT". In Latin, this cluster was transliterated as "ct".

The letter æ and ct are re-constructed on a grid and spine line base to dissect its formal structure (Image 1, 2). Both letters share a common spherical construction of the belly and tails. Based on its formal similarity, both letters are extruded and intersected onto each other to form a supercluster of 3D projection from the 2D surface (Image 3, 4, 5). The letters’ formal construction in a plane now allude into a tangible physical artifact. This artifact is then set in front of a background as a still life (Image 6, 7). Dressing the artifact with various skins and textures such as knitted sweater (Image 8, 9, 10) and floral embellishment, applique, and embroidery  (Image 11 - 14).

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