YouTube Video - Independent Study

I chose this YouTube video as it shows many different pieces of breakthrough architecture. A great deal of the structures use complex curves. Curves are something that I have tried to implement into my scheme.

Week 3 - Independent Study

These two screenshots show a close look at the textures and how they interrelate with the artworks in their workshops.

36 Textures

Week 2 - Before Wk.3 Studio

FIONA HALL

This piece of work by Fiona Hall is part of a collection known as "Paradisus Terrestris". Material choice is especially critical when it comes to Hall's work. She takes everyday objects and transforms them into a range of contemporary issues such as globalisation, consumerism and natural history. The core theme throughout Hall's work, expecially in her Paradisus Terrestris collection, is the relationahip between nature and human culture. Beneath the half open sardine can sits a naked human body part, while plant life is sprouting from above. Hall is trying to make us consider what we share with plants. the piece of art that I chose is very complex, but made almost entirely from one material. This main material is recycled tin. She uses tin sardine cans for the base and tin again to mould the plants. Her pieces in this collection were painted either gold or silver, in the case of the one I chose, gold paint was used. Production techniques include peeling the sardine can back to reveal the human body part underneath, as if uncovering it. Then she shapes the plants to portray growth, like life sprouting from the can.

ROSALIE GASCOIGNE

Rosalie Gascoigne was quoted saying that her art making materials "need to have been open to weather." Wood, iron, feathers and wire were popular in her artwork as these materials successfully exhibited the weathered look that she was trying to achieve. Some of her most famous work used retro-reflective road signs, with others using boxes, drink crates, floral lino and many different kinds of building materials.
The artwork that I chose is known as "Foreign Affairs", and was created in 1994. The name is a response to the different addresses and dates on the boxes. The materials Gascoigne has used in sawn wood on craftboard to make it look like many different sized boxes arranged in a 778x772mm square. She has also cutup text and rearranged it on this piece. This was popular not only in the work that I have chosen, but was constant throughout many different pieces of her art.

Week 2 - Independent Study

3D Google SketchUp Model:


Pages from sketchbook that the stairs were based.


Section views of the stairs chosen.


The materials used for this set of stairs would be as follows...

The poles suspended from the roof attached to the upper level stairs would be made from stainless steel. This would keep the clean-cut, modern look and would provide strength to support the weight of the treads and the people walking on them. They would also act as a balustrade for the higher level stairs. The poles coming out of the floor to support the bottom level stairs would also be made from stainless steel to keep a similar theme throughout this set of stairs, and again, to offer strength. The treads themselves would be made from polished timber. This would contrast well against the steel, while effectivly making each material stand out on their own.

The materials used for this set of stairs would be as follows...

All the stairs for this set would be made from the one continuously folded piece of steel. In much the same way as the stairs I chose to draw from Russell's stair lecture. The fact that they are made from the one piece of material would give a flowing effect, almost the complete opposite to the first set of stairs that uses two different methods for each half of the staircase. When a balustrade is added to this set of stairs it will be made from polished stainless steel to keep with the theme of the gallery.

Week 1 - Before Wk.2 Studio

This is the stair that I chose from the lecture.

These are the 2 sections that I drew. The first one is a section right through the centre of the stairs going from top to bottom, as if it were slicing the treads in half. The second one is a section also from top to bottom, but perpendicular to the previous one, showing the path that the metal takes in order to create the stairs.

18 Sections

Week 1 - Independent Study

Google SketchUp screenshots:

In SketchUp I originally cut the underground tunnels out of a solid, but unless you were able to orbit around it you could not see them. In this one i'm imagining that the entire bottom half is solid earth and that the random paths are cutouts in that earth.
Once you had navigated through the underground tunnels to the section of the drawings you would find yourself getting to the boxes above ground, which I imagine would be made of hollow steel. After being trapped underground you would reach the surface and find yourself enclosed in the edges of a steel cube. Still trapped with no way out.

Hand drawn sketch:

Top Section: Box
Bottom Section: Scared

For the box I drew a series of straight lines to form a large and small cube.
After many different variations of scared, on this one i tried to portray undergroud tunnels, almost like a maze. The hatching is trying to represent being underground, surrounded by earth. I'm sure that being trapped in a maze of underground tunnels would be a scary experience for many.

Rosalie Gascoigne

box, scatter, chaotic

Tracey Moffat

sky, fly, scared

Fiona Hall

tree, grow, unyielding

C: An original photo of something beautiful

This is a photo i took last month. It is a town called Hakuba in Japan near Nagano at about 8am at the foot of the mountains.
There is definately something beautiful about waking up to fresh powder snow, and the feeling you get about the day ahead.

B: Image of a great piece of architecture

After looking through many different houses of this style, i came across this one which is located in Malibu. This modern, clean-cut design really appeals to me, and is the style of home that I would like to live in. It was entered in the besthousedesign.net awards for its architecture, which was lead by Stephen Kanner. It comes with features such as the use of recycled materials in construction, passive solar energy hot water, solar panels for renewable energy and open spaces for natural ventilation.

A: Best piece of creative work from High School

I designed and built a freestyle motocross ramp for my major design project in Design & Technology.
It included rendered CAD drawings, engineering drawings and construction of the final product.
The ramp had to be innovative in some way. Instead of being a permanent ramp, mine was lightweight and able to fold in half for ease of storage and transportation. Unlike most ramps that are made from one complete structure, my ramp was made from different sections to offer a compact and ergonomic design.