Scientists' Quotes

Quote 1
Alfred Nobel
"Hope is nature'sveil for hiding truth's nakedness."
http://www.people.ubr.com/education/by-first-name/a/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobel-quotes.aspx

Quote 2
Keith Campbell
"I just want to know how everything works."
http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/about.html

Quote 3
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
"However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jacques_yves_cousteau.html

Alfred Nobel and Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Peace prize to commemorate people whose work benfited society. He was the inventor of dynamite but he was also a interested in peace and social issues.

http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was famous for his research work in the oceans. He produced a TV series to educate the world about marine life and protecting the animals that live there.

http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Cousteau.html

Axonometric Drawings

Draft Model 1: Scientists' Laboratories

Floating laboratory of Jacques-Yves Cousteau based on fragmented forms being interdependent.
Hidden laboratory behind the vertical wall of Alfred Nobel based on a veil idea.

Electroliquid Aggregation of Alfred Nobel's and Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Quotes

"However fragmented hope and the world are, however intense nature’s veil for hiding the national rivalries, truth’s nakedness shows it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day."

Draft Model: Showing Beginning of Ramps

Parallel Projections of Meeting Places (shown in upper right corner in image above) - Front View and Back View

Lecture 7 – Analogy of the Cave

This analogy by Plato suggests the power of shadows. If only the shadows of the men themselves or the people walking past could be seen, the shadows would no longer be representations of the real thing but the real thing itself. This analogy could be understood to demonstrate the importance of shadows and what they can become.

I could use this idea in my design of the laboratories by creating strong shadows in that are seen in front of the person, which become their own reality. For example the shadows created by the ramps on the floating building, creates a completely new form and texture that cannot be achieved normally. Another way for the shadows to be used in my design would if the lighting and the persons shadow could be used to hide elements at first which are later revealed as the person moves through the space.

Texture Sets: Dark to Light

Developed Model

Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Laboratory

The montage roof of rectangular prisms covered in a wavy custom texture, creates an ocean feel, which relates to Cousteau's marine work and his ideas of a fragmented world being interdependent.

Alfred Nobel's Laboratory

Alfred Nobel's lab is much darker, enclosed and less visible because he was more private and a loner.


The Ramp

The ramps are intertwined relating to the scientists intertwining ideas. The ramps are made up of fragmented sections that force the person think about how they walk.The intertwining ramps also create a tense situation in which each scientist can see the other and what they are thinking before they meet at the entrance to the meeting space.

The Meeting Space

There are two entries into the meeting space behind the wall. The mood of the meeting would be determined on whether together or separately.

Level Access

http://files.filefront.com/13706168

Fachwerk Lamp

This piece of work was a lamp that I designed in my design class. We were given thread paper, coat hangars and a lamp cord, from that we had to create a lamp. I love the designs on the outside of Fachwerk houses in Germany so I decided to try and incorporate that into my design to give a more interesting visual effect. It is a wall lamp because I found that to be a more interesting lamp type because most lamp designs were desk lamps or floor lamps. I also wanted to continue the relationship between the fachwerk design and the wall.

Dancing House

This piece of architecture is called the "Dancing House" designed by Vlado Milunc and Frank Gehry and it is located in Prague. The curvy lines and shapes that are used to create this building give the impression that the building is actually moving or dancing. The use of differently sized and shaped concrete panels create the shape of the couple dancing. The creative use of structural techniques to create a building that is both interesting and aesthetically pleasing are what make this building such a great piece of architecture.

Tunisian Door

This is a door on a building in Tunisia. Usually in Tunisia the only decoration on buildings are the doors and windows, which adds to the beauty of the doors and windows because they are so noticeable and they stand out. This particular door is one of the most interesting and beautiful I saw because it has so much decoration. All of the decorative parterning is made using bolts. Each door usually has three door knockers because earlier women were not allowed to answer the door to a man when they were home alone and when they did answer to a man they must have had their headdress on. So each knocker makes a different sound so that the housewife knew if it was a man, woman or child at the door.

Artists - 3 Words

Moffat: class, long, theatrical

Gascoigne: time, restore, rustic

Hall: advancement, depend, interlinked

18 Sections

Above: Moffat - Class

Below: Hall - Advancement

Section 1: Above: Moffat - Class

Below: Hall - Advancement

Section 2: Above: Moffat - Long

Below: Hall - Advancement

Section 1: Above: Hall - Advancement

Below: Moffat - Long

Section 2: Above: Hall - Advancement

Below: Moffat - Class

Section 1: Above: Moffat - Class

Below: Hall - Interlinked

Section 2: Above: Moffat - Theatrical

Below: Hall - Depend

Section 1: Above: Moffat - Long
Below: Hall - Interlinked
Section 2: Above: Moffat - Class
Below: Hall - Depend

Section 1: Above: Hall - Depend
Below: Moffat - Class
Section 2: Above: Hall - Advancement
Below: Moffat - Theatrical

Section 1: Above: Hall - Depend
Below: Moffat - Theatrical
Section 2: Above: Hall - Interlinked
Below: Moffat - Long

Section 1: Above: Moffat - Theatrical
Below: Hall - Interlinked
Section 2: Above: Moffat - Long
Below: Hall - Interlinked

Section 1: Above: Hall -Interlinked
Below: Moffat - Long
Section 2: Above: Hall - Interlinked
Below: Moffat - Class

Above: Hall - Interlinked
Below: Moffat - Theatrical

Wk 1 - Draft Model Number 1 - Datum

Upper: Hall- depend

Lower: Moffat - Class

Wk 2 - Draft Model Number 2 -Stairs

Upper: Moffat - Theatrical

Lower: Hall - Interlinked

Stairs leading from Tracey Moffat's theatrical studio to the exhibition space. The stairs include display cabinets and shelving to allow one to view the pieces of work from different angles.

Stair Sections - first draft model

Spiral glass staircase located in the glass bowl.

Heavy stone stair leading from exhibition space to the depend studio space.

Stair Sections - Used in Final Model

Stair linking exhibition space and the theatrical space, which is really a part of the exhibition space itself.

Stair connecting exhibition to the interlinked space, which runs along the interlinking support frames.