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Gabriela Calixto - Music Concept Design

This project was a process of understanding music elements and turning them into an architectural building. It is a deep comprehension with music and how to explain what you are listening to. Your are describing the way the music flows an dhow it sounds. Finding words architecturally in order to start your building is a challenge because it is based on the artist way of music not just words of description.

Tina Turner ( Queen of Rock N' Roll )

3 Architectural Words

Tina's music is very loud , heavy , tuneful , and unusual with different frequencies sometimes. The architectural words I chose were RAMP , INTERSECT , and FREQUENCY.
It was a decision based o her way of creating music. Ramp was a way of me describing the way her career gradually grew as she Intersect or combined Rock and Soul/Blues to introduce Rock N' Roll.
Frequency was a debatable one I had a hard time deciding. Her frequencies in certain songs stayed frequent for example "The Best" , while others like "Proud Mary" were energetic and hyper.

Tina Turner was a upcoming singer with an abusive relationship with her husband Ike Turner. They were a duo so she was known as a Turner , but later on divorced Ike and fought to keep her last name as that was her only chance to success.

Music Interpretation Model

To interpret the music into structures is what we first did. This model is suppose convey Tina's music, with thick blocks to represent how heavy her music was , and tall sticks and short sticks as to how soft and loud it could get. Her music was very up and down to where I created curves or how her frequencies would sounds. The big box is representing her reason to music and motivation to be the best version of herself an her music.

Below the photos is a drawing of its elevation from front , left , right and site/top view.

Ramps , Intersection , Slab ( I changed Frequency with Slab later on )

Final Model Ideas

To start my model I had to create some ideas. With my 3 words I put in use a couple model creation. The bubble diagram conveys what the visitors would experience. My pavilion is meant for a brief life of Tina and her music. I want people to understand why and how Tina started her music career to get to where she is now and how she impacted a lot of lives. For my final model I chose the top sketch because of the dome concept. It represents her motivation to create music. Tina is strong female who was a victim of DA and for that same reason she kept Turner. Most of her music is lyrical relating to her feelings. Proud Mary portrays a new life on the river away from painful and stressful things.

Drawings of Final Model

As I finished my project model I decided to work on my final drawings. Shown above here are the drawings I finished and relatively look okay. As for my site I chose downtown Tennessee near a body of a water surrounded by buildings. Downtown Tennessee is beautiful with it's ight on that conveys Tina on stage as she performs.

Final Model of Project 01.

My model is a representation of Tina Turners motive to continue her singing career and her involvement to the music industry. Tina is a fearless woman with great vocals and her music that introduced us to what is now called RnB . Her music is powerful and those big fans know the reason behind certain songs that may be lyrical. Parts her songs escalate rapidly to steady low beats into heavy loud beats. Her voice is raspy but yet strong loud, her frequencies are unusual but mix surprisingly well. As guests enter the entry hall the first thing in sight is her interview quotes as to what she experienced in her duo era with her ex-husband , Ike Turner , and what she did to go on in life. In the dome which is the second part to this experience is her music shaping into Rock and Blues. As visitors go up the stairs you will hear the way original sounds blend in with Tina's music. It shows the way Tina creativity with frequencies impact modern music. It is crazy how music has evolved over the years since the 80-90s. The exit is meant for people to see how Tina music affected so many people with music. Over the years Tina has won a total of 7 grammy awards throughout her career.

Project 02 - Artist House

For the second phase of our artist is creating a lovely home for our loving fans. This house is meant to still have connection with my artist , Tina Turner , that develops the way it is built. The main concept is knowing how to develop a home with the relation of the Artist to please your client that are big fans.

The process of developing this idea was to find a way of using the words I had chose for my artist which were Ramp, Intersect, and Frequency. I found different architectural way of showing that in my clients house for example, adding a escalating stairway at the front of the house was an idea to represent her loud, rapid , and strong music that can be heard in her song Proud Mary. I wanted the first front part of the building to be shorter than the back to create the look of different sizes of building as her music is a combination of different genre of music all together.