Project 01: Artist's Retreat
Through the first project in Architecture 2, it was my goal to portray Alex MacLean and his photography style through an artist's retreat where he can go to be inspired and continue his work. To reflect his pictures i placed his site on a remote bay area right outside of San Francisco which is inspired by the city and the ocean near by.
Project Research
MacClean's background in architecture leads him to have an excellent sense of space also qualifies him beyond that field, particularly in landscape architecture. The abstract concept of spatial order makes sense with the advantage of a bird’s-eye view. MacLean reveals the difference between the natural and the constructed aspects of the environment and most recently took photos of aspects of climate change, taking us with each image to a place we think we know but have never seen like this.
Mixed Media Artwork
Through my understanding of Alex MacLean, I created a multi-media art piece to reflect him and his work. I achieved this through using a board of Masonite. I then used paint and photo collage to achieve a photo-like work. I used strong borders and busy pieces to create something similar to MacLean's photos.
Design Process
Through the process of trying to figure out how I wanted to portray Alex MacLean through a building, I decided to go with two different buildings and place him in a site near water and a city.
Final Design
The final design ended up being two buildings, one to represent his everyday life, and one to represent his work. It reflects Alex MacLean's view by showing how everyone can see from eye-level but once you get passed that and get an aerial view of things, you see and understand so much more. Since he would be in California, i used light as a design tool over a functional tool. This was represented in symmetrical windows and large focal pieces highlighted through light. There is a main entrance that leads to the home part, and a long hallway that leads to the work building.
Project 02: Global Makerspace
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Global Culture 3D Print
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Relationships: (noun) the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or the state of being connected.
To achieve the idea of relationships, I incorporated different sections to reflect different entities and utilized material and lack there of as a way to express how things can be connected. As a relationship is a way that concepts connect, everything is connected to another aspect of the model to establish a strong sense of togetherness in the model. The viewer will see a central column and four surrounding columns. The surrounding columns are connected to show how the world is connect to each other, however the center column is separate from the rest to indicate broken relationships throughout the world.
To achieve the idea of relationships, I incorporated different sections to reflect different entities and utilized material and lack there of as a way to express how things can be connected. As a relationship is a way that concepts connect, everything is connected to another aspect of the model to establish a strong sense of togetherness in the model. The viewer will see a central column and four surrounding columns. The surrounding columns are connected to show how the world is connect to each other, however the center column is separate from the rest to indicate broken relationships throughout the world.