36 Textures - Light to Dark

Black Box lecture - "Shadow as a threshold"

Image sourced from Lecture 7 - the Black Box, slide 20

Shadow can be manipulated as a threshold - as an entry point, a pathway that leads to new spaces and a way to discover the obscure. In my own design, the effects of shadow act as a very significant component, in terms of Jacques-Yves Cousteau's laboratory, the shadow casts by the solid, highlights the paths in contrast to areas of light, those paths are directional that leads to discovery of the unknown. This is relevant to Yves Cousteau's idea which through exploration - underwater, many unknown facts and phenomenon can be discovered. Shadow as a threshold also has similarities to the design for Keith Campbell's laboratory. The ramp leads to the building is supported by a series of columns which form a rhythmatic lighting effect. Since the building has a range of openings, the shadow helps highlighting a series of identical spaces which gives the building a sense of repetitiveness.

ElectroLiquid Aggregation+Developed design

ElectroLiquid Aggregation:

"Without the weight of gravity, men has only to sink beneath the water and he is free. In the world we live in, this identical phenomenon can be applied to everyone."


Developed model images

Parallel Projections － Interconnection

Conceptual parallel projections for clients' meeting space

Experiment 2 - Initial design

Lab for Jacques-Yves Cousteau:
Inspired by "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. Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel."





Lab for Keith Campbell:
Inspired by "Asexual reproduction or production of something that is identical"

Experiment 2 - 18 Axonometrics

Experiment 2 - Quotations from 3 clients

Task: Find a quote describing an idea from each of the clients

1. Alfred Nobel:

"One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge."

Reference: Levinovitz W A & Ringertz N, The Nobel Prize: The First 100 Years, 2001



2. Jacques-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. Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel."

Reference: Longgood W.F, The darkening land, Simon and Schuster, 1972, Original from the University of California, Digitized 23 Oct 2008



3. Keith Campbell

"The definition of cloning is asexual reproduction or production of something that is identical"

Reference: http://www.ivfpodcasts.com/IVF_Podcasts/Podcasts.php?Cloning-12