Benny: May 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010

Valley Inspired By Horizona, USA

This is the initial landform I have developed according to the Horizona in USA. What I am trying to achieve is a sense of levels, so that when the elevator moves up and down the view would be in some way different to the view previously.

Mash Up

Discovered in 1997, she had mastered the manual alphabet and manual lip-reading and the typewriter and several forms of Braille, in which she read Greek and Latin and French and German when she won a Dolly Magazine model search at age 13. People felt they want a serious leader whom they can trust. Merkel knows what she's doing. Idolised, she hailed from Heaven for her angelic temperament, her courage and joy and generosity, she has had to steer Germany through some difficult times, where she was introduced as the new face of retailer David Jones (and) met with the cream of Australia's fashion designers at a special dinner who inspires confidence and remains a popular pragmatic politician. Keller's inner visions were more beautiful than reality, she played unwittingly into the hand of those who would sentimentalise all women as better than men, many thought the coalition would break apart, but Mrs Merkel managed to hold it together (by dealing) with David Jones rumoured to be worth a six-figure sum.

Red - Helen Keller

Green - Miranda Kerr

Yellow - Angela Merkel

White - Linking Words

Reference

Red: Mary J. Salter, "The Achiever," The New York Times Magazine, (1996), http://deafness.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?once=true&site=http://www.nytimes.com/specials/magazine4/articles/keller.html.

Green: "Mirranda Kerr Dines With Cream of Design," Sydney Morning Herald, (April 25, 2008), http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/miranda-kerr-dines-with-cream-of-design-20090403-9nv2.html.

Yellow: "Profile: Angela Merkel," BBC News, (September 27, 2009), http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4572387.stm.

Australia: Blue Mountain (Miranda Kerr)

USA Arizona Sedona (Helen Keller)

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Developed Structure

This is the development on the initial structure.

Further Development

The idea of directing light from the cavity between the roof and the wall began here.

This is the proposed way of connecting the ramp to the structure.

An overall shot with lighting effect.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

5 Real Time Images

I have decided to open up the meeting room as well as the labs (yet still maintained certain enclosure for the real-time situation consideration), this is because both Kuepper and Darwin work closely with nature, and by having no obstacles in between is the best way to achieve such intimate relationship.

Further, the reason for choosing simple white lights is the consideration of the function of the labs. After all, labs are different to night clubs.

1. The meeting room is divided into upper and lower levels. It was originally 1 flat surface, however, by digging deeper into the ground with 2 unequal levels suggests that the way of thinking does not have to be strictly from one aspect. Each level is a square shape, if cannot come to an agreement with ideas, go to another level, and from there think again 'outside the square.'

2. The space between the roof and the wall is intentional. This allows the sunlight and artificial light to illuminate through the cavity and cast strange and different shadows each time onto the floor or wall nearby. The changing shadow is perhaps a way of encouraging creativity and a statement of adaptation.

3. This is the artificial ramp. It acts like a transaction stage between two completely different environment - from coming up with ideas to exchanging ideas. When walking down the ramp the meeting room gradually appears on the left hand side while on the right hand side the wall abruptly stops and suddenly exposed to nature. This reinforces the idea of 'adapting to think and experiment' from all different angles.

4. This is the ramp formed by the landform. Instead of taking the client straight from the ground to top level, Kuepper has the choice to take this long and winding ramp, which takes her outside her normal working environment, allowing her to feel differently at different times of the day, and perhaps helps the client to 'think outside the square'.

5. This is the overall shot of the 9 intersecting prisms. The positioning of the structure allows the sun to shine through both the top and ground level without blocking the view, highlights the idea of that everything gets the same amount, it is all about equality, rather than a 'competition'.

Labs and Meeting Room at Night

The Meeting Room. (Viewing at the same position but different directions, showing the upper and lower levels of the meeting room.)

Nicole Kuepper's Lab

NOTE: I have used blue light in Kuepper's lab to highlight her modern-day technology and way of thinking.

Charles Darwin's Lab

Applying Final Textures

Heavy texture, applied to the wall facing away from the sun. It is a representation of the artificial light projecting onto this wall, and whenever something or someone walks pass-by the image of the object or person is also been projected.

Light texture, applied to the one part of the wall of the meeting room. It shows the gentle touch of the sunlight makes with this wall before everything else within the room.

Medium texture, applied to the roofs of the structure. Inspired from the rays of the sun, representing the tangential contact of sunlight with the lower roof.