UT Draft images

18 Axonometric Drawings

Experiment 2: Quotations

Alfred Nobel:

''My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.'' As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 114

Wikiquote, Wikimedia Foundation inc., last modified 23 March 2009, Alfred Nobel, retrieved 6 April, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

Jaques-yves Cousteau:

'From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.'' Time (28 March 1960)

Wikiquote, Wikimedia Founation inc., last modified 8 Sept 2008, Jaques-Yves Cousteau, retrieved 6 April, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques-Yves_Cousteau


Keith Campbell:

''We are not all mad scientists. We are not all looking to clone ourselves. The positive benefits that this may have for human therapeutic medicine and improving the quality of life for people with certain genetic disorders...I personally am completely opposed to reproductive cloning''

WBLWHOI Library org, 2006, Transcript of pre-lecture interview - Presented on June 22, 2001 by Keith Campbell, Ph.D., University of Nottingham, Cloning Dolly: How and Why?, retrieved 6 April, http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/transcript.html

Final Submission

1. Animations and Architecture
2. The Stair
3. 36 Custom Textures
4.18 Sketches
5. The Three Words

My Design: Repeating and Satirical

My design aims to express the creativity of the artists within, while also serving as an inspirational backdrop for the public visiting the gallery. The top studio is created through a repetition of organic shapes. I intentionally made this space quite open and public, as I aimed to introduce a new type of 'gallery culture' in which the audience can be in direct contact with the artist. Rosalie Gascoigne's works often reflect the everyday life through her themes and materials, and so could take inspiration from seeing people move in and out of the building. The stairs linking the top studio and gallery, as explained below, also serves as an exhibition space through various platforms, where the public can move in and out of the works as they please. The exterior texture of the gallery continues the organic theme, as does the 'webbing' between the studio and gallery.

The lower studio is more private and is quite extensive in scale. It expresses the word satirical because the shape of the underground studio is perhaps amongst the most impractical of all. This is furthered with the motif of the rock wall throughout, which again, plays with the distinction between practicality and impracticality. It is in a way, making a satire out of its occupants. Due to the multiple layers of platforms, the public will be able to walk through the higher levels of the studio while the artist works mainly at the bottom. As Fiona Hall creates an extensive variety of work, the various platforms may be used to separate between the different media she uses while working, or for further display of her work.




Link to Model
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=70fd346824bad38de91f21171ab1506

1. Animations:

Final Model with Textures

Textures Used: bold, organic, tiled








Front View
























Gallery and Upper Studio















Lower Studio

2. Stairs1

These stairs link the top studio to the gallery, and express the word 'repeating.' They also serve as an extension to the gallery space, with repeating patterns of blocked out stairs serving as areas of exhibition. The length of the staircase is quite wide to accommodate for this double purpose, and also allows people to venture freely in between the artworks.

Stairs2

These stairs link the bottom studio to the gallery, and portray the word 'satirical.' The stairs appear to be a rock wall, and so blurring the distinction of what defines a 'stair,' which was my intended satire. The rock-wall idea is a motif continued throughout the lower studio.

Draft of Secondary Model

Top= Ambiguous
Bottom= Mutating



















I tried to express 'ambiguous' stairs by making them very irregular, so occupants would find it difficult to predict where to step to next. The shape of the top studio is intended to suggest the male and female signs conjoined, creating an 'ambiguous' gender. The bottom studio creates a 'mutating' journey for the artist, as she walks through changing spaces and stairs - from normal stairs, to a slide, to a ladder.