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"No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal."Jacques-Yves Cousteau

"One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge."Alfred Nobel

"One can state, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, that the search for similarities and differences can duplicate the conditions of the sea. Those who inhabits one of these marine lands can never be considered normal on the basis of all human knowledge." - Nissa

Lighting And Shadow

The Black Box, The Concealed Room. Chapter 5. The Shadow As Repetition. As the moon starts to disappear and the sun starts to rise, its morning twilight time. Shadows are long and light. They are more blue then black. You are walking along a path at an art gallery. On your right side a feature wall with intriguing square conical hollow shapes bursting out of the wall. Suddenly the clouds clear and the moon is bright in the sky again. You look to your left and you notice that the blank wall on your left is no longer blank. Light is being funneled down these protruding shapes on the right and projected onto the left. The wall becomes an art piece of its own now. Using projected light to repeat what should be shadows into beams of light is an innovative idea. When I see this I think of how it would be to walk through that space and what it would be like to have that atmosphere surrounding you. Underneath the stars still during twilight I would feel that the projection would feel as though they were stars against a wall. Especially if the holes in the conical shapes were smaller. The feeling you would get from this would be the feeling of never ending space, in a never ending universe. The feeling of never ending space is something I would like to explore with my design. While Erika probes this thought on an outwards visual plane, it would also be a compelling thought to twist that around and turn it inwards. In a lab I think a space that conveys the feeling of infinite space heading inwards would aid scientists with the philosophy behind theory.

Unreal Ed

This is the image of the inside of my model showing the space for Alfred Nobel. This explores his quote about similarities and differences and how all human knowledge is based upon our search for the two. It isn't really detailed but the simplicity expresses the similiarity and differences between sunk in walls and features coming out of the walls.






This is the axnometric drawing on which the inspiration for this space came from. As you can see it is the outside that has the detail in this sketch. However, as I was creating it I felt that it would be better if this detail was inside were you could actually experience it.

First Model Attempt

Here is my attempt of Unreal Editor and making the model of it. This is the inside of my space for Jacques-Yves Costeau, and the concept of searching for normal space.








And to the right is the outside view of what it would look like. Although i'm not quite sure if that is in the cliff face or outside of the cliff face. Inside I hope.
Again to the left is the axnometric drawing on which I based my first model on.

Axonometric Drawings

These are my 18 axnometric drawings for our experiment 2. I used the quotes from Alfred Nobel and Jacques-Yves Cousteau to create them. It was interesting but actually a bit difficult to create intriguing spaces and drawings using only 3 rectangular prisms. But I still was able to create some interesting and some simple shapes.

Link To 3D Warehouse

I didn't realize we needed to put up the link to the model in the 3D Warehouse. I apologize. Here is the link to my model.

Scientist Quotes

"No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal."

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jacques_yves_cousteau.html Retrieved on April 6th 2009.

"One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge."

Alfred Nobel
Source:Levinovitz, A W; Ringertz, N. The Nobel Prize: The First 100 Years. World Scientific. o1 January 2001. Pg 10-11.

"I just want to know how everything works."

Keith Campbell
Source: http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/about.html Retrieved April 5th 2009.

Advance Stair Sections

These are my advance stair sections for Tuesday's studio class. Wasn't sure if they were supposed to uploaded to the blog as well but I did anyways. Just in case.

Overall View Of Model

I chose this view to represent what you would see if you were walking up towards the building to see the exhibition that either Rosalie Gascoigne or Fiona Hall. You can see that the top studios for Rosalie Gascoigne are joined by platforms on the outside at the same level, but not at the top and is hidden in the architecture through the blade walls I added to make it appear that the platforms blend in with the building and are meant to be part of the blade wall.

Broken

The above ground studio space is the space for the artist Rosalie Gascoigne. I chose the word broken to represent her work as she takes broken pieces of something the rest of us would consider garbage and makes it whole again. When I was considering the word broken I thought of barcodes for the reason that they seem to me to be a set of broken different sized lines. As you can see I tried to convey that into my buildings as having a set of 4 buildings in the front that are different sizes as well as different heights and then continue on with that in the exhibition space which is the back not attached as such to the 4 buildings. The exhibition space matches in shape to the front and flow of the entity.

Metallic

The below ground artist studio and space was created for Fiona Hall. It was inspired by the use of metal in her artwork to make something organic out of old tin sardine cans. When I was drawing sections of the word metallic I kept coming back to and thinking of a sword being driven into the ground. And this is what I attempted to do with my space. As you can see I have taken that idea and expanded it. I decided that one "sword" wouldn't be enough area and it would appear too alone. So I added three more "swords" although they are all different sizes. Then reflecting on the actual space that the artist would have to create pieces I needed to add another space in the back that linked into the exhibition space. This was adding a more practical approach to the studio.

Third Animation

This shows the below ground artist studio and the exhibition space.

Second Animation

This Animation shows the inside of the upper studio and stairs which I created for Fiona Hall.

First Animation

This shows the outside area of my studio and exhibition space. As of 10 AM on Thursday morning youtube has come up with a message that this video is not yet processed. I am not quite sure what that means. But it is on youtube and the embeded code is correct so here is to hoping that it works by 1:30.