Above are 18" by 18" compositions, made of three materials, to create phenomenal transparency.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Phenomenal Transparency
Above are 18" by 18" compositions, made of three materials, to create phenomenal transparency.
Phenomenal Transparency
Above are sketches for creating tri-color compositions that exhibit a phenomenal transparency, an oscillation between foreground and background.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Comprehensive Design, Spring 2010
Semester Project: Harvard Biological Research Laboratory
Location: Engineering Building on Oxford Street, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
In this project, we will design a ficticious research laboratory to replace the Engineering Building on the Harvard Campus.
Location: Engineering Building on Oxford Street, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
In this project, we will design a ficticious research laboratory to replace the Engineering Building on the Harvard Campus.
What Exactly Do I Do In Studio?
Well, we color a lot.
We provide visual stimulation one 11 x 17 at a time.
We rotate virtual models for hours.
We draw with a mouse and keyboard.
We photograph.
We design t-shirts, magazines, and websites.
We learn how to talk so now one else can understand us.
We have created irrational bonds to our computer, and know its moods.
We are still trying to understand what tectonic means.
We provide the mood of a room.
We provide the mood of a city.
We go to museums, but not for the art. [sometimes we go for the art].
We collect pens.
We spend hours talking about fonts.
We analyze. We over analyze. We over-analyze?
We over-analyze. We always make the same decision in the end.
We make deals with the local art supply stores.
We have grand schemes.
We have side projects.
We express our wildest dreams and desires through parti diagrams and building sections.
We construct temporary palaces made of cardboard and wood.
We don't create rooms, we create spaces.
We haven't left this building in 25 hours, and we're not even thinking about leaving any time soon.
We are never satisfied.
We think it should look more like this....
We are trying to figure this whole thing out.
We see invisible meaning.
We know that thirty-five years ;ater, we will have just gotten started.
We understand the artistic potential of mass-produced chairs.
We graffitti.
We know the difference between a portico and a vestibule.
We get into physical confrontations about wall thicknesses.
We wonder how everyone else does it.
We haven't stopped thinking about designing stince we started.
We've done more work than you have.
We think we have an ego problem.
We know about that obscure project in that small country in Eastern Europe by that firm with the strange name.
We're all really just doing this so that we can build our own houses and put a hot tub in our bedrooms.
We're not impressed with their new stuff.
We still don't know what we want to be when we grow up (but we don't tell anyone.)
We have friends here and they're the only ones who REALLY understand.
We provide visual stimulation one 11 x 17 at a time.
We rotate virtual models for hours.
We draw with a mouse and keyboard.
We photograph.
We design t-shirts, magazines, and websites.
We learn how to talk so now one else can understand us.
We have created irrational bonds to our computer, and know its moods.
We are still trying to understand what tectonic means.
We provide the mood of a room.
We provide the mood of a city.
We go to museums, but not for the art. [sometimes we go for the art].
We collect pens.
We spend hours talking about fonts.
We analyze. We over analyze. We over-analyze?
We over-analyze. We always make the same decision in the end.
We make deals with the local art supply stores.
We have grand schemes.
We have side projects.
We express our wildest dreams and desires through parti diagrams and building sections.
We construct temporary palaces made of cardboard and wood.
We don't create rooms, we create spaces.
We haven't left this building in 25 hours, and we're not even thinking about leaving any time soon.
We are never satisfied.
We think it should look more like this....
We are trying to figure this whole thing out.
We see invisible meaning.
We know that thirty-five years ;ater, we will have just gotten started.
We understand the artistic potential of mass-produced chairs.
We graffitti.
We know the difference between a portico and a vestibule.
We get into physical confrontations about wall thicknesses.
We wonder how everyone else does it.
We haven't stopped thinking about designing stince we started.
We've done more work than you have.
We think we have an ego problem.
We know about that obscure project in that small country in Eastern Europe by that firm with the strange name.
We're all really just doing this so that we can build our own houses and put a hot tub in our bedrooms.
We're not impressed with their new stuff.
We still don't know what we want to be when we grow up (but we don't tell anyone.)
We have friends here and they're the only ones who REALLY understand.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Landmark Center Gateway, West Fenway Neighborhood
Landmark Center Gateway (A), in the West Fenway Neighborhood, is one of six gateways to the neighborhood. I analyzed this gateway, as well as the Trilogy/D'Angelos Block (#1) in between Brookline Avenue and Boylston Street. The drawings below (except for the very first image) were produced by myself, and my partner produced the drawings that are on her blog. (http://www.rachelkessel.blogspot.com/)
I use the term 'gateway' figuratively because Landmark Center doesn't literally have a gateway guarding the entrance to the neighborhood. Rather, Landmark Center acts as a visual and spacial barrier that separates the non-Fenway neighborhoods from the neighborhood itself. Landmark is a monolithic blocky building that overshadows the other smaller buildings. The only comparatively large building is the new Trilogy apartment complex, of similar height, that together with Landmark frames Brookline Avenue. Boylston Street is not quite as framed as Brookline Avenue, with large gaps and empty parking lots that break up the buildings. The adjacent Pererborough Street is parallel to Boylston Street, and is the first neighborhood street that is completely residential at the Landmark Gateway.
Images 1-4 pertain to the overall gateway whereas the rest of the images pertain to my block specifically.
I use the term 'gateway' figuratively because Landmark Center doesn't literally have a gateway guarding the entrance to the neighborhood. Rather, Landmark Center acts as a visual and spacial barrier that separates the non-Fenway neighborhoods from the neighborhood itself. Landmark is a monolithic blocky building that overshadows the other smaller buildings. The only comparatively large building is the new Trilogy apartment complex, of similar height, that together with Landmark frames Brookline Avenue. Boylston Street is not quite as framed as Brookline Avenue, with large gaps and empty parking lots that break up the buildings. The adjacent Pererborough Street is parallel to Boylston Street, and is the first neighborhood street that is completely residential at the Landmark Gateway.
Images 1-4 pertain to the overall gateway whereas the rest of the images pertain to my block specifically.
Monday, June 22, 2009
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