Different Views

The studio group now has undertaken the construction of two machines for seeing the world and an analysis of these machines and their "perspectives"for them to be used with our Landscape models.
Machine #1: Prepare a small machine that can be easily carried and used that makes us see the cubist-inspired landscape model, according to how you think it should be seen but we might never see or forget seeing in that way.......I made a viewing cone that creates the sense of seeing the project in perspective but at the same time creating new views for the model.  With frame lenses and sliding color lenses.  So that each viewer can create there own frame for the project.
Machine #2: By following the same principles of the first machine, prepare a machine that allows us to see nothing, nothingness, or the disintegration of vision.......I believe that nothingness is create from seeing far to much of the original image, that the beliefs of vision are distorted.  This was accomplished by the same concept of the vision cone as done in machine 1, that is rectangular in shape and 6" in depth.  With multiple slides that are transparent but yet have different views of the project on them, by the time you look through all the slides the actual image is distorted creating nothingness.

Landscape based on the Interpretation of the painting.

The assignment, then, is twofold: develop a landscape or topographic condition based on a sectional reading/interpretation of the painting and, second, to introduce architectural elements where defined architectural environments need to be created.  To do this, we had to choose a Le Corbusier building.  The building that i picked to study is his Villa Shoden. I took may characteristics from this building and related them into my landscape.  But for me the thought of total freedom of this project had me lost, yet made me look at it in a very different way.  When everything is in front of you what do you choose to do.  The characteristics that i found in his villa were:  Thick roof slabs, Raised roof slabs, Right angles, Stairs that break the plain, Main building and secondary building, Ramp, Narrow walkways, and spaces that are linked together in complex ways.  For me it wasn't so much about taking these concepts and putting them onto a landscape but more of creating a landscape around the building and the building creating the landscape.  From this you will find that it becomes more of a man-made feel, not as natural.  So it doesn't look like a hilly landscape you might see but more of a step topography.

FINALLY!

This is my new blog about an Architecture of Cruelty......... Cubism.  This new project we are suppose to take a Cubism piece of art mine is, Packet of Coffee by Juan Gris.  For the fist week we were suppose to break down the work and get inside of the artist head to figure out his thought process.  Now we have to take the process work and create a landscape and building based off Le Corbusier's Villa Shoden. So you take his main idea from the villa such as thick floor slabs, right angles, staircase that extrudes from the side of the building, ramp, different spaces linked together.