Monday, April 27, 2009

UT environment draft 2

Cousteau's Lab

Meeting place

Cousteau's Ramp

Campbell's Lab and ramp to meeting place

Ramp to Jacques Cousteau's Lab

Inter-connected Axonometrics

The one I decided to choose as my meeting point design is the middle image.

The Black Box



The student's thesis we were given provided many images of different interactions of light within architecture. I found the image of diffracted light waves through slits as an idea I would like to explore further in my UT environment(see image above right). The point source could be seen as a scientific idea and it spread out to achieve something life changing such as the ability to clone. However it must undergo testing and experimentation before it reaches this place. The obstacles could be seen as the large beams the light is obstructed by on the ramp(see image above left). However the light waves appear to bend and overcome these barriers and spread out to achieve something great such as Cousteau's scuba diving invention. Or as Cousteau may be suggesting in his quote, as one thinks outside the confines of existing scientific reasoning, things that appear impossible, could be the beginnings of an idea that eventually "are set free" and create something extraordinary.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Electroliquid Aggregation

From birth man just facinates me. The weight of gravity I find on his shoulders exciting. Obviously he is bolted when you make the earth breakthrough man. It has only small results beneath the lab which on the surface means nothing to lots of people. He is getting free techniques successfully.

Monday, April 20, 2009

UT2004 Draft 1


Keith Campbell


Jacques-Yves Cousteau:


Thursday, April 16, 2009

Axonometric Drawings

Jacques-Yves Cousteau



Keith Campbell

Sunday, April 5, 2009

EXP 2: Client's Quotes

"Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness"

- Alfred Noble






" From birth man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to the earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free."


-Jacques-Yves Cousteau




"Science just fascinates me. What do I find most exciting about it? Obviously, when you make a breakthrough, it is very exciting. But I get very excited regularly about small results in the lab, which would mean nothing to lots of people. Just getting techniques working successfully, and getting good rates of development of embryos in dishes. Or being able to image a particular organelle within an embryo within a cell and that really excites me, just seeing the data, and the work done."

-Keith Campbell



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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Google Sketchup Warehouse 3d

Model is called:
Sara Maddison architecture 1101 exp1

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c37b7d72eb42d4ddf4d1da7af4916ffa&result=4

Sketchup Animations





Research of Artworks

Fiona Hall

Fiona Hall created brain shaped objects attaching wasp nest resembling parts and attaching this to the ceiling. Her artwork suggests a comment on knowledge and its existence in the natural world.
The artwork is Fiona Hall's sculpture is made of a type of reinforced fibre glass called resin plastic. A layering process is used fibreglass. She would've created a brain shaped mould and treated it with resin. The process of reinforcing fibreglass involves layering pieces of fibre glass within a brain mould and applying resin on the surface as well as other coatings such as a gel coat for a smoother, harder finish . The mould is separated from the component using wedges and compressed air.

Rosalie Gascoigne

Rosalie Gascoigne uses old, discarded objects found lieing around suggesting sadness to her work.

Rosalie Gascoigne used found objects to create her artwork. She found scrap plywood from used soft drink crates. She then sliced the wood using a bandsaw, into thin, uneven slivers. She kept the text which was printed on the crates and painted the squares in different colours. The arrangement she used places the pieces horizontally and vertically to form a chequerboard of rough squares.


Final sketchup re-done





My above Gallery space is influenced by Fiona Hall's Castles in the Air of Cave Dwellers using a brain shaped object. This theme is carried through to the lower ground studio space for Fiona Hall. The spiral in the gallery space is intended to show the way people are meant to move through the space and toward the staircase. The spiral shape is then carried down to the lower studio where their is a platform for Hall to make her artworks.
The above ground studio is influenced by Rosalie Gascoigne's wood pieced artwork. The word I chose to describe it was assemble, as it reminded me of a puzzle. Therefore my above ground studio space is intended to represent a puzzle like pieced up structure. I tried to make a connection between the brain and the assembled studio space by using a texture on the studio with a contour design, which reminded me of sections of the brain.

My material Selection for the design would consist of Concrete Aggregate Smoke for the floors which is painted on for the stairs leading to upper studio and in lower studio platform. The spiral in the gallery area would be made of glass. The spiral staircase structure would mainly consist of metal components such as steel.