Sunday, April 26, 2009
Lecture 7: The Black Box
Chosen slide: Slide 7
The ideas within the slide that are present in my design are penumbra, umbra and pentimento. Umbra is a region of complete shadow. Penumbra is a region of partial shadow between regions completely illuminated by light and regions in umbra. Pentimento is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting (ref 1).
I have employed the concepts of Penumbra and Umbra in several areas of my interior and exterior design as evidenced in the images. The first reason for this was to create ambience and give my creation an atmosphere. This added more realism to my model and hence gave it life, in contrast to before where it was cold and lifeless. I have used regions in umbra to create a dark mood. In Nobel’s lab, it represents the time before an important discovery, when man is in complete darkness about something. The penumbra regions symbolise man’s strive to eliminate that darkness through the attainment of knowledge. Finally, the completely illuminated regions suggest the time after the important discovery, when man is not in complete darkness but rather has eliminated it and hence can ‘see the applications and significance’ of the discovery. This is the essential concept embodied In Nobel’s idea of the Nobel Prize. My sequence of shadows for Nobel’s Lab goes from penumbra/umbra near the front entrance and as you enter the heart of the building, it becomes more illuminated.
Similarly, with Costeau’s Lab, I have used this concept to represent this idea of ‘rising to the surface’ when swimming in the water mostly employed near the entrance and around the lab.
Further, the concept of Pentimento is also present in my scheme in the form of an ‘Unreachable room’. In the beginning my idea was for it to be a habitable room but since then I have changed my mind and not created an access way to that room. This is because, as I was creating my model, I realised that doing this would be an excellent way to introduce ‘mystery’ into my creation. The idea of mystery represents the sea; which in all its enormity has lots of things yet to be discovered, rather we have only ‘scratched the surface’. The same mystery which Costeau and other scientists aimed/aim to unravel.
References:
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentimento
The ideas within the slide that are present in my design are penumbra, umbra and pentimento. Umbra is a region of complete shadow. Penumbra is a region of partial shadow between regions completely illuminated by light and regions in umbra. Pentimento is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting (ref 1).
I have employed the concepts of Penumbra and Umbra in several areas of my interior and exterior design as evidenced in the images. The first reason for this was to create ambience and give my creation an atmosphere. This added more realism to my model and hence gave it life, in contrast to before where it was cold and lifeless. I have used regions in umbra to create a dark mood. In Nobel’s lab, it represents the time before an important discovery, when man is in complete darkness about something. The penumbra regions symbolise man’s strive to eliminate that darkness through the attainment of knowledge. Finally, the completely illuminated regions suggest the time after the important discovery, when man is not in complete darkness but rather has eliminated it and hence can ‘see the applications and significance’ of the discovery. This is the essential concept embodied In Nobel’s idea of the Nobel Prize. My sequence of shadows for Nobel’s Lab goes from penumbra/umbra near the front entrance and as you enter the heart of the building, it becomes more illuminated.
Similarly, with Costeau’s Lab, I have used this concept to represent this idea of ‘rising to the surface’ when swimming in the water mostly employed near the entrance and around the lab.
Further, the concept of Pentimento is also present in my scheme in the form of an ‘Unreachable room’. In the beginning my idea was for it to be a habitable room but since then I have changed my mind and not created an access way to that room. This is because, as I was creating my model, I realised that doing this would be an excellent way to introduce ‘mystery’ into my creation. The idea of mystery represents the sea; which in all its enormity has lots of things yet to be discovered, rather we have only ‘scratched the surface’. The same mystery which Costeau and other scientists aimed/aim to unravel.
References:
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentimento
Electroliquid Aggregation
The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: The interest on my capital shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, eliminated the weight of gravity on man’s shoulders. One part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery to unbolt man from earth. One part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work to allow man to sink beneath the surface and achieve freedom.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
EXP2 Week 01 Task: Axonometric in 3D v1
Monday, April 6, 2009
EXP 2 Client Quotes
'The use of nuclear transfer in farm animal species offers significant benefits to human medicine.'
Keith Campbell
Ref: Campbell, K 1998, 'Look on the bright side of cloning', Nature Medicine vol. 4, no. 5, May, pp. 557-558
'The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital shall be invested by my executors in safe securities and shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind..; one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine;... The prizes for ... shall be awarded by ...that for physiology or medicine by Carolinska Institute in Stockholm; ...'
Alfred Nobel
Ref: Levinovitz, A & Ringertz, N 2001, The Nobel Prize : the first 100 years, Imperial College Press, London
'From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.'
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Ref: ThinkExist 2006, ThinkExist, viewed 6 Apr 2009, (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/from_birth-man_carries_the_weight_of_gravity_on/210694.html)
Keith Campbell
Ref: Campbell, K 1998, 'Look on the bright side of cloning', Nature Medicine vol. 4, no. 5, May, pp. 557-558
'The whole of my remaining realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: the capital shall be invested by my executors in safe securities and shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind..; one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine;... The prizes for ... shall be awarded by ...that for physiology or medicine by Carolinska Institute in Stockholm; ...'
Alfred Nobel
Ref: Levinovitz, A & Ringertz, N 2001, The Nobel Prize : the first 100 years, Imperial College Press, London
'From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.'
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Ref: ThinkExist 2006, ThinkExist, viewed 6 Apr 2009, (http://thinkexist.com/quotation/from_birth-man_carries_the_weight_of_gravity_on/210694.html)
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Final Model (Week 04 Task)
Generally the material I propose to use is timber. Furthermore, I have made extensive use of glass as shown in the pictures. The large shells are to be made of concrete. Moreover, I have used marble for the below stairs. The surrounding fence will be constructed from stone (possibly granite). The red ribbons will be made from glass. Lastly, the above stair will be made from stone.
Here is the link to my SketchUp file :http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=415d604f2ec0f51ba693789b1fb956f1&prevstart=0
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