Infojnani@mit.eduricardo-jnani.comSMArchS Architectural Design Candidate | MIT Architecture Bachelor of Architecture | Cal Poly, San Luis ObispoExpertise★★★★ Design★★★★ Photography/Film★★★★ Digital Modeling & Visualization☆★★★ Fabrication & Craft
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☆☆★★ ProgrammingWhat’s your favorite thing you’ve made?In my third year of at Cal Poly, I built a concrete scaled model of a proposal for a Morphology Lab at Cal Tech. The foundation alone weighed 165 lbs. What I found to be special about making this model was how the many hours of designing the foundation, iterating the model, constructing the mold, and mapping out the procedure, all culminated with a single careful & methodical concrete pour lasting only a minute.What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?My computer frustrates me everyday. However, it is also one of the objects I love the most. It feels like an object that is just two steps away from reading my mind & knowing exactly what I want at all times. This was not the case when I first began using a computer – it was such a distant & static thing that seemed to only accepted commands. Now, however, it is frustratingly close to being a complete back & forth interaction thing – to feeling like an external limb that I don’t quite have complete control of.What do you personally hope to get out of this class? How can you contribute to the class?Through an Independent Study I experimented with an art installation that combined physical interaction with digital projection. One participant was asked to interact with an evolving, settling concrete canvas while responding to the superimposed projection of another user navigating the experiment’s website. This experiment explored mutually creating while digitally, physically, and instinctually expressing an idea with one another. Through experiments in this class I hope to dig much deeper into questioning how we express and perceive information.
