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
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