Experiment II - The Final 5... Well, 7!

In reaching the final stages we have been asked to present five images with our textures in our custom made environment. I couldn't pick five but promise there won't be too much writing! Enjoy!

 

For my first image I wanted to set the monument in the theme, space! It is surrounded by a steep valley, mountains, tall and short trees as well as cliff like ridges and grassy knolls with a lake to boot!

Sneaking up on the monument we can see how it sits, entrenched in the valley surrounded by woodlands as sits in its space waiting for people to see what it beholds.

This is the view from the gathering space after one would walk up the valley from the lake and too the monument. This related to my concept of SPACE by allowing a focus on the monument with a drab platform. It also shows how the monument relates to the SPACE around it by expressing shadows from both nature on the monument and the monument onto nature!

This image highlights the porous and weightless nature of the monument which combine to make my Electroliquid Aggregation concept of SPACE come to life. The height and the porous nature of the building allow for attention to be turned to the environment filling structural frames with external SPACE!

The image presented highlights the connection of the monument with its surrounds and how it sits in the valley and ridges that surround it. You will notice how the cliffs and grass butt up against the architecture, invading the monuments personal SPACE while the building becomes one with the nature in which its sit, filling the SPACE nature provided.

This image also provides images of the destruction of SPACE and the connection made with nature and the monument. By having an open floor plan and denying the monument of striking features one is forced to look out and beyond the architecture to find a new SPACE. A place where light and dark, dry and wet, early and late, soft and hard, tall and short become the focus point through the constant frames provided.

With the rising of the moon and the display of more subtle shadow lines the monument changes again for people to enjoy a new SPACE to sit in and contemplate. I chose not to light the monument because I believed the moon and the stars would present enough to invite people to frame a new SPACE.