Rotation: A rotation means that something is turning around in a circular motion or a change and may repeat itself. There is the saying that, “History repeats itself.” In Patrick’s class we learned how a revolution evolves/comes about. It starts out in the rotation stage, where a change happens. It then moves into the cycle and reform where change is made from the rotation. It transitions into the Renaissance and comes out to the revival stage. America was trying to separate itself from England and had to make a revolution.
Movement: Movement creates a sense of path. For our Pathways, Edges, and Boundaries project, we are going to install pieces of cement into the ground of the parking lot islands. My group, the Gateway group, is using half spheres to guide the pathways and square blocks to direct the pathway that will be stepped on and used. The squares create a sense of movement because of how the raised circles are placed onto them. There is movement in history of how it is constantly changing. There is change between two chairs that are the same style but built in a different time periods that influenced each of them in their own way. “The Arts and Crafts Movement had widened the debate about what constituted good design, but had little effect on conventional interior design at the turn of the century, either in America or Europe.” (Massey, 31)
This is a potential layout of how the stepping stones and half spheres will go into one of the parking lot islands. It creates movement because the path that people will walk on is how they get from one end to the other and the raised circles on top create a motion that is moving.
Reflection: This week we made a project about light out of MDF. We had to make natural light reflect onto our project in some way to illuminate it and create movement. My project is a great example of how light comes through the curves in my design on each circle plate and reflects light, making shadows. As you rotate the project the shapes change and create movement. The Crystal Palace in London is another example of reflecting light. The conservatory has glass all around it, illuminating everything inside of it and making you feel like you are in paradise and have a “lifting of the spirit” experience. The “ banks of mirrors on the opposite walls reflect the light throughout the room” in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. (Roth, 419)
This is the 3rd skin project that I made out of MDF and it shows how light comes through the weaves of the circle plates and reflects on the ground in creative shapes.
Illumination: Illumination is what brightens up something with the source of light. You can think of illumination as an example of Christmas time when all the houses are lit up with decorative lights in celebration of the birth of Christ. It gives you the feeling of spiritual enlightenment just like the feeling that the Crystal Palace gives you. Massey talks about a townhouse that Horta designed for himself saying that “…a skylight illuminates a centrally placed staircase of white Carrara marble which forms the centerpiece of the whole design, winding up through three floors.” (Massey, 37)
This is a perspective drawing that I did for Suzanne's class and we had to use different media and medium to create a family room, dining, and kitchen area. The window in the back shines light onto the objects in the room and illuminates the whole entire room.
Source: The source of light is amazing! Light adds energy and makes people feel happy. In an interior space, light illuminates a space and makes color in a room pop out. It makes everything brighter and glow with confidence. The Beaux-Arts style was a conservative style and “…in interior decoration was marked by lavish use of carving, gilding, rich marble and extravagant lighting…” (Massey, 31) The source of lighting was well known and suited for large spaces such as in a hotel or department store.
This is my favorite section that I rendered from my perspective drawing and it shows how the source of light reacts with the objects in the room. For example, you can see how the couch is darker on the side that is not facing the window where light is not spotted on, but it is shown on the side that you can sit on. It creates different hues.
Summary: This weeks words were all words we have had before, which makes things interesting for this opus. It was neat to see how different this weeks opus was from the words I used in the past and what I wrote about them. Illumination comes from the source of light that reflects light and creates movement as light is rotated, just like how the sun rotates and moves to create movement in shadows.
No comments:
Post a Comment