space between - 2nd crysis model

space between - axos of interconnecting prisms

space between - electroliquid aggregation

Concept: “Why still speak of the real and the virtual, the material and immaterial? Here these categories are not in opposition, or in some metaphysical disagreement, but more in an electroliquid aggregation, enforcing each other, as in a two part adhesive.”
Reference: Lars Spuybroek, [1998] Motor Geometry, Architectural Design, Vol 68 No5/6, p5

Quote 1: Charles Darwin
"Natural selection, as has just been remarked, leads to divergence of character and to much extinction of the less improved and intermediate forms of life"
Reference: Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1876)103, http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F401&pageseq=1 (accessed April 19, 2010).

Quote 2: Stephen Hawking
"If you jump into a black hole, you will get torn apart and crushed out of existence" Reference:
Refernce: Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes (New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1993), 116

Electroliquid Aggregation:
Black holes will tear and crush the less improved and intermediate forms of life into extinction.

space between - 1st crysis model

space between - 18 axos of 5 rectangular prisms

space between - inspiration

Reference: Russell Lowe, "The Black Box Between Drawing Modelling and Representation," Russell Lowe, http://www.arch1101-2010.blogspot.com/ (accessed April 27, 2010)

This image was part of a presentation composed by Russell Lowe, using images from Erika Kruger's submission for the Degree of Master Design at Victoria University of Wellington 2004 - entitled The Black Box.

shadows and spaces:

This image highlights how powerful light and shade can be in forming three dimensional images. Through the mere use of black to emphasise shadows, and white for light, an image is formed that encompasses depth and form. The differing shades of black and white encourage a richer environment that aids the viewer's perception of position and space. This highlighted the concept that not only light, but also shadows are important in shaping the spaces that one may occupy.

I used this idea to further develop my designs. As a result of this revelation, I started from scratch and redrew my axonometric drawings. This shaped how I would further design the interlocking rectangular prisms as I considered how light would fall onto the interlocking shapes and the resulting shadows it would cast on the surrounding landforms. I also started to think about the spaces that are formed from the interlocking prisms, and how light and shadow could further enhance these spaces.

space between - initial draft axos

A collection of my initial draft axos

charles darwin

"Natural selection, as has just been remarked, leads to divergence of character and to much extinction of the less improved and intermediate forms of life"

Reference: Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1876)103, http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F401&pageseq=1 (accessed April 19, 2010).

stephen hawking

"If you jump into a black hole, you will get torn apart and crushed out of existence"

Reference: Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes (New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1993), 116

nicole kuepper

"There are currently some 2 billion people in the world who do not have access to a reliable source of electricity"

Reference: http://eureka.australianmuseum.net.au/A4D69CF1-9890-B67D-2409EF3BFCD8F038?DISPLAYENTRY=true (accessed April 19, 2010)

datum - 3d warehouse link

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c316d920f89e37cdf047da22f7dd282e
The 1st version submitted

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e04ae9d34baf7b392c9704a29ed311b3
A second version submitted - the initial orientation of the model is changed and the cross sectional views removed. Otherwise it is the same model.

datum - 3 animations

This animation takes a general overview of the outside layout of this art gallery/artist's space for Richard Goodwin and Ricky Swallow. Richard Goodwin's space is the upper level on the left. Ricky Swallow's space is the lower level on the right. They both meet on the ground floor - the datum, with the common gallery space linking the two spaces up.

The above animation takes you through the interior, starting from the bottom level in Ricky Swallow's space, up to the gallery space, then up again to Richard Goodwin's space.

The below animation is a cross section tour through the concept art building.

datum - final model attempt

Richard Goodwin
synthetic

Ricky Swallow
isolated

MATERIALS USED

above:hard

I chose the word hard to represent the type of materials that Richard Goodwin would use to make his art work. A lot of the materials he uses are metals and concrete. The Exoskeleton display uses a mixture of metals.

middle: soluble
I chose to use the word soluble as a material for the middle ground gallery. I felt that the middle ground should be an area where the two artists can meet, develop and display their work together. I felt the word soluble describes the idea of mixing together.

below: organic
A lot of the works by Ricky Swallow are of the human body in some shape or form. I felt the word organic best describes this idea of a natural human body. The work I chose - Unbroken Ways, is a model of an arm detached. I thought this contrasted the synthetic nature of Richard Swallow's work in an organic way.

The final materials used in the model are a mixture of all three materials. The wood represents an organic material. The black walls are a hard coloured concrete, and the corrugated metal represents a material that is not definitely a solid, a malleable material giving the idea of 'solublility'.

FINAL 3 IMAGES

The idea behind this concept gallery was to developed an artist's space above a datum - the gallery space, and another artist's space below the datum (below) ground.

The artist's space on the left and above would belong to Richard Goodwin. I designed the overall form based on the idea of 'synthetic' shapes. Not regular shapes such as regular squares and triangles which could be seen as natural.

The artists space on the right and below would belong to Ricky Swallow. Using the word isolated, I wanted to create an environment that would be enclosed. The bottom level is surround by a shell that engulfs it and grows up to the gallery floor. I wanted to used shapes like squares and rectangles with edges to contrast the above ground.

The middle space links not only the above and below, but the left and right. I wanted to identify this as a focal meeting point. The glass paneled roof is shaped in an idealised ying and yang shape to symbolise the coming together of the two different artists.

The art gallery space looking towards the stairs that lead up to Richard Goodwin's space.

The space where Ricky Swallow would create his work below ground looking at the stairs that lead up to the gallery space.

datum - stairs cross section - final

Images above - The stairs that lead up towards Richard Goodwin's 'synthetic space.
Images below - The stairs that lead down towards Ricky Swallow's 'isolated' space.

(The portrait plan is a cross section from a front on view as if going up the stairs, the landscape plan is a side on view)

I wanted to use light stairs in this concept gallery space. I wanted them to be incorporated with some sort of artwork that is fixed on the wall so that from afar, the stairs look like pieces of artwork on the wall. I wanted to use a mixture of materials with the steps being a coloured transparent material like glass. The balustrades to be made from a lightweight material that can float from the artwork. Coloured ceramic tiles for the artwork that would be incorporated in it. For structural support, the steps and the beams in the artwork are to be embedded in the wall with metal.

For the steps that went below to Ricky Swallow's space I wanted to use circular shapes to continue the organic theme.

For the steps that lead up to Richard Goodwin's space, I wanted to use regular squares to continue the 'hard' theme, and also the synthetic nature of his work.

datum - 36 custom textures