During my presentation Sue mentioned that I should have thought about how a person could occupy the space as to sleep/ wake in the space. The sculpture I have designed could be used for a person to rest and lay on as there are parts that lays almost flat on the ground. However, I should’ve thought more into that as the sculpture is very cursive so it may not be appropriate for a person to sleep on.
Site Map
I have used images and drawings from the day we took a trip to walk around in Albert park to AUT’s St Paul’s Gallery in WB building.
Threshold
I had drawn the plan of the gallery and have included the atmosphere of the gallery. I have shaded in the gallery to indicate that the space is rather dark but there is some light entering the gallery through the window. The lobby has some lights ahead to create a brighter space, however, the lights are quite dim so it conveys a feeling of comfort in the room.
Alice Aycock has works in installation / sculpture / architecture. She appears to use the idea of movement/stasis as the sculpture is still but seems to have a movement that keeps going.
I’ve decided to try use the same focus on my installation in the gallery.
I plan to use a similiar concept from my project one and focus on the idea of movement/stasis.
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Kengo Kuma is an architect who designed this pollution-absorbing architecture. I found it quite fascinating how this simple design is used for a big cause. It corresponds with what I had planned for my design as well.
Section Drawing
Model
I have decided I would like the use plaster as the material for the installation, as I believe it would give off a clean finish to it. Also, When light shines through, it will reflect off the white area, which will make the space in the gallery more brighter.
However, I had used cardboard in the model as it is easier to work with for this project. But if it were a real installation then plaster would have been used.
As you could see the installation will be higher than a person’s height. I purposely made chose to made sure it fills the space, also making it high, so it would give a similar feel as if walking in the park as the installation would tower and surround the person walking among it just like the trees in the park does.
The space is rather dark but in the day when the sun shines through, creating shadows of the lines from the window but also will display waves of lines from the installation.
Junya Ishigami specializes in houses / large buildings / interior / furniture design. I mainly focused on his design of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology’s KAIT Workshop.
His work focuses on the lines inside of the building as contain more than 300 steel columns that differ in size, reminiscent of trees in a forest.
The glass walls of the building brings the idea of the threshold of sleep and wake from the thin boundary of the glass separating the inside and the outside.
This is the shot I had decided on for my final piece after taking many shots. Due to how a large amount of space is shown and the flowing of the paper gives of the element of wake.
This is my final model. I had continued to used similar structure to the previous mock model I had made. However, due to using more harder materials than in the previous post, some parts has changed. It doesn’t make much difference since it still has the same feel to it.
I have decided to combine these two mock models to see if it would work well together as one model contains a space where it conveys my sleep element well. My second mock model gives the flowing element like in my sketch so I proceeded to combine them together.
The Outcome:
Front view:
Top View:
I added copper wire and twisted it hoping it would give more of the wake element in it, which worked quite well.
The copper wire would move too much so I decided to temporarily clip on paperclips to hold the wire to the rest of the model. Surprisingly, the paperclip gave the model a bit of colour so the model wouldn’t look so dull and made me think that it could probably represent dreams as dreams can come in any sort of colour and feeling.
I had taken bits of my idea from my sketch to try form small models that could be used to develop for my final model. I have sorted then from which seems more interior to exterior. Also, arranging them from lightest to darkest.
When I think of sleep/wake I think of the movement of when we are awake and how we keep flowing and moving as life goes on whilst when we are asleep we are curled up in our own space and are still. That is what I have conveyed within my sketch.
25/03
We were asked to divide page into 4 horizontal bands.
Where we would draw in relation to sleep/wake.
1.SLEEP (eyes shut) consider light/dark
2.WAKE (eyes open) consider opening/closing
3.SLEEP (eyes shut) consider movement/stasis (still)
4.WAKE (eyes open) consider horizontal/vertical
The first drawing I was really confused, as you maybe able to see the confusion in the drawing. However, I believe I was trying to draw a light shining down with the dark areas where the light is not shining.
Second drawing is my perception of opening and closing. Where the opening is the lines flowing in loops and continuing . However, the portray the concept of closing I put a big boulder to block the line from continuing.
My third drawing portrays movement/stasis (still) where it’s like a hurricane but I had drawn it horizontally. The hurricane represents movement as it continues rotating. However, I had ended the hurricane with a dot. Symbolizing the stillness of the hurricane.
Lastly, my forth drawing shows horizontal and vertical by using distorted rectangles, as I rotate and scale the rectangles.
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