Fariza Tajrin Hoque: May 2011

Monday, May 2, 2011

CRYSIS WARS IMAGES LANDSCAPE + LABORATORIES

Top View

Maria Agnesi's lab

Meeting place

Newton's lab

Preview of whole model

Stairs made from rocks

Meeting place- coated by colour + rocks

INITIAL GOOGLE SKETCHUP MODEL

Some thoughts for the design:

Maria Agnesi: Despite her intelligence, her beauty and nobility helped her establish herself at a time when it was difficult for female scholars to taken seriously.

The enormity of the drawing and the main rectangle serves to make itself known, and stand out much like Maria Agnesi herself during a male domineated period. The longer horizontally orientated rectangle impede complete movement onto the other side- representing the barriers that women frequently encountered during this time. Such is also represented by the longer horizontally orientated rectangle with only one opening.

However the opening of the larger rectangle could mataphorically represents the changing public opinion of the public – accepting and allowing woman’s role in society to be more prominent.

The bottom position of her lab in comparison to Newton’s represents her comparative inferiority at the time.

Isaac Newton: Isaac Newton established several laws – laws which serve to govern the physical principals of this world. His law of gravity is the most significant one – setting forth the idea that single masses when placed in a gravitational field will remain attracted to it rather than float in space. His analysis of the centre of mass of particles had derived from this law. The location of the centre of mass of an object (the objects equilibrium position) would allow it to bear loads of itself and other objects if it were orientated in a special way.

My upper model represents this notion; the rectangles held up by a single thing rectangular block, as the rectangles are aligned according to this principal of centre of mass. The fact that it remains free standing on the ground is of course blatantly due to gravity. The location that Newton’s lab utilizes – which is a hill conveys centre of mass and gravity. The slope itself which would transport Newton to the meeting place can be used without falling (again due to the concept of gravity).

The meeting place:

As Newton walks downhill, Maria Agnesi walks straight from her lab, and they both meet along the path itself, yet this path is too small to be considered a ‘meeting place’. Hence this meeting is done so they are allowed to walk with each (discuss theories/ideas) until they reach the actual meeting place – emphasized through the red and blue lighting (which juxtapose from the original white lighting scheme of this model).

Newton’s lab: incorporates nature – rocks used as steps, and a component of the hill itself passing through the top storey.

Maria Agnesi’s lab: Incorporates the water component, her lab is embedded onto the ground.

Therefore:

ELECTROLIQUID AGGREGATION:

from:

Hypothesis 1: Newton had established laws that changed the physical principals of the world.

Hypothesis 2: Despite her intelligence, her beauty and nobility helped her establish herself in a time when it was difficult for female scholars to be taken seriously.

'Intelligence and nobility' allowed Newton to discovery the 'physical principals of this world.'

COMBINED AXONOMETRICS

Sigmund Freud + Isaac Newton.

Maria Agnesi + Isaac Newton

Maria Agnesi + Sigmund Freud

AXONOMETRICS

Maria Agnesi: Despite her intelligence, her beauty and nobility helped her establish herself at a time where it was diffcult for female scholars to be taken seriously.

Isaac Newton: Newton had established laws that changed the physical principals of the world.

Maria Agnesi: An entity can be analysed by looking at the smaller parts that it is comprised of.

It is not just a big mass, but it comprises of cut rectangles - or they could be rectangles simply joined together to look like a gap?

Isaac Newton: Newton changed the scientific world based on his discovery of the law of gravity.

Notice how one side of he rectangular cut shape is balancing several rectangles (interplay of gravity + centre of mass).

Sigmund Freud: Freud's discovery that negative things can be repressed has made them harder to repress.

The side rectangles facing opposite directions, metaphorically depicts Freud's discovery causing the opposite or negative effect. Therefore his discovery has a hole in it (as represented above by the gap).

Sigmund Freud: Discussing feelings and thoughts can bring unconscious thoughts to the mind.

Such unconscious thoughts are depicted through the one sided opening - a representation of thoughts coming in - with no means of escape (with the opening being a dead end). The intersection of blocks depicsts multiple intertwined thoughts. The missing rectangle metaphorically portrays a person's gap in knowing what is actually in their heads.

THE CONCEPT

The fragility in my upper studio is conveyed by the enormity of it, supported by a single beam like zig zag shaped structure. Such a zig zag shape with sharp ends is presented throughout the whole studio. Also, my thoughts as both an engineer and architecture student had influenced my decision to incorporate this into my model as sharp points are a potential point of crack growth, and is where crack growth (if happens) is mostly concentrated. I had further used several rectangular blocks within this structure to emphasize how the little elements all combine to form one element, and simultaneously show that if this upper studio was to break, it would shatter into these elements. I had been keen to use rectangular pieces as I felt they had additionally contributed to the aesthetic realm of my studio. Glass has also been used extensively throughout this studio. The staircase which projects down to the bottom floor helps portray this idea of fragility with its irregularity in shape, and the sense of risk it appears to have with both components of the whole stair meeting at their narrowest pointst. However, with consideration to the scale of the people, this staircase can be utilized. The gallery which is positioned in the ground has curves leeching from its sides. Such curves originate from the bottom studio. The top studio is incorporated with its support attached to the gallery, as well as its staircase. Through this, I hoped to achieve an integration of both studios, in order to metaphorically represent the connection of my ideas. Further, the curved walls presents elements from the bottom studio. The underground studio represents flowing by its overall shape, possessing several curvy features. The stairs which are used are curvy themselves, and flow from one place to another, it is essentially one stair case that takes one to the different parts of the studio. Bansky's studio however possesses some flat elements, such as the floors to give him space to work. Also the translucence of the floor allows him to overlook the pool which is below him. The element of water is representative of fluidy, continuity and flow.

18 SECTIONS

My two selected artists were Muek and Banksy. The words that I had chosen to represent from them had been flowing and fragile respectively. Muek's work to me presented a sense of fragility as he made imitations of real life people, but to a much bigger scale. Their massiveness conveys their inability to move, or even stand - breaking apart quite readily. Banksy through his art conveyed the word flowing to me, as the skeleton on the boat was essentially flowing on water. Also there is also a sense of fluidity in all of his art pieces - he remains consistent with the sense of mystery that is present in all of them, as well as his form of representation - which are mainly wall drawings.

My best piece of Art work

I had constructed a model of a gapped staircase, inspired by my visit to Circular Quay. This particular staircase appealed immensely to me, as I was able to truely see 'urbanization' taking its toll. As I had been progressing up with these stairs, gradually being exposed to different parts of the city - starting from the plain grass on the ground to abundant the effect of urbanization to the former built environment had become more and more evident. Hence this is why in my model there are large hollow frames of different sizes to indicate the different parts of the city I had come to see. I felt that my journey on the stairs metaphorically represented our society's transition due to urbanization.