The Senses.

We all know that the senses are the five ways we get through life, Sight, Touch, Hearing, Smell and Taste, they help in recognising what is in front of us. In the project that has covered the last eight weeks you could say that Light, Shape and Colour could replace the senses, but only when viewing things. To explain this further if you look at the first three images carefully, your mind will slowly gather objects and landscapes you have seen previously and re-map them over these images so they become recognisable to your brain. This happens because when one part of the image has been removed the others gain extra abilities to enhance to remaining qualities. 

LSC. (Light, Shape, Colour)

LIGHT   + SHAPE  = NO CONTRASTS   (Black and White)

LIGHT   + COLOUR = NO DEFINITIONS (Objects are not Clear) 

SHAPE   + COLOUR = BLURRED VIEW   (No Depth)

This way of removing an individual word can create an extra three topics, when thinking of these in this way in allows you to understand how the original topics can work. Within architecture this can be an interesting method or design process, to see how certain things work with another. 

Daniel Libeskind Imperial War Museum.

As shown above Daniel Libeskind uses a method in designing the Imperial Way Museum. He takes an object, in this case a globe, breaks it up and re-arranges it to produce the building. This could be done by using the topics from my project to create an architectural proposition to be placed back within the Chine, or any site with this depth of research and analysis.   

Light: The Most Important and Least Relevant.

The title does seem a little odd because from the chosen topics light is the one that doesn't seem as relevant to the other two. Purely because it is hard to pin point how to describe light in design. Peter Zumthor describes the light in a much more spiritual way, and how it is a reason to start and end each day, it also carves the path that we take each day through natural and artificial light. As well as giving us paths it can also inform design and the way in which buildings are orientated and which spaces are used for certain activities. 

Peter Zumthor. The light of Things. 

An interesting way of how the light affects space is thinking of a normal day and then a day in the fog. As shown in the image below it explains how when looking at the Chine you can see how certain events can reduce the area that is accessible through light. The black is what you would not see due to the covering of fog, the clear area is what is visible to you and really makes what was a large space seem so confined.  

Sunny Day Bournemouth Chine.

Digimap Image of how a Sunny Day in Bournemouth would feel.

Fog on a freeway in America.

How the Fog would make the Bournemouth Gardens feel.

Architecture: Can you make it?

A question I have asked myself recently is do you have go the whole way with the 7 years of Architecture to make it successful? Some famous architects know that this is not the case for example, Le Corbusier, Mies Van de Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright all did not graduate from a School or University of Architecture. 

Brad Pitt is a better example of this because he is an actor that has taken to architecture, he studied it but never graduated. He managed to become friends with Frank Gehry through him designing a wine store in his $14 million home. This makes an extra question of its not what, but who you know to allow you to become successful. Brad Pitt has worked on a 5 star resort in Dubai and also the example below of a leisure complex in East Sussex, England. Both of these created through working in collaboration with Frank Gehry's Los Angeles practise. 

Brad Pitt.

Pitt with Canadian Architect Frank Gehry.

Leisure Complex, Hove, East Sussex.

Brad Pitt is quoted to say that 'whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion'. From this it can be said that it is possible to do whatever you would like with an intense desire to succeed. 

England Vs Russia.

In the midst of todays footballing events I thought I should  touch on the architecture of these 2 countries. The history of the 2 date back many years but to think quickly the stand out architecture of Russia is the Constructivism and the Churches and Cathedrals of Renaissance Russian Architecture. 

St Balis Cathedral, Russia.

England is more renowned in the same era as having a Gothic Revival Architectural movement which can be seen in the Churches and Cathedrals and also the parliament buildings in Westminster, London.

Houses of Parliament, London.

Although this being said, the new modern forms or architecture there are little if not no modern Russian architects developing the world. On the other hand the English architects are doing their best to improve our everyday lives. The example below is by Fosters and Partners, and another building our architects are giving back to Russia.

Crystal Island, Moscow.

Crystal Island, Moscow.

So sure, Russia have 'taken' the 2018 World Cup off of the more worthy candidates but we know that we can produce the better products. 

Snow.

A talking point today is the heavy snow fall we had last night, and the now clean white environment we have woken up to. After some midnight snow-balling, the snow has brought out the inner architect in everyone. From the simple crafting of the perfect snow ball to the creation of snowmen in many gardens around the country.  

Snowman

The slightly more extreme crafting of the snow that has fallen can even allow us to be much more creative rather than building the normal snowman.

Casper Omid Arbababamin, Bristol.

However, Japan has a slightly better, more professional approach with their yearly Snow Festival in Sapporo that my brother was luckily enough to go. It really shows the extremes that can be reached with the simple white stuff that has fallen in England over the last day.

Mario, Sapporo Snow Festival.

Castle, Sapporo Snow Festival.

Palace, Sapporo Snow Festival.

Random Creations?

The project I am working on at the moment of Light Colour and Shape(LCS) is producing external influences to describe the findings within a selection of final pieces. Some example of the ideas that could link well with my focus topics(LCS) are listed below, they are not listed in date order because they are showing the complexity levels of the art. 

Mark Rothko. Light Red Over Black. 1959.

Juan Gris. Glass and Bottle. 1919.

Georges Braque. Gueridon. 1913.

Jackson Pollock. The She Wolf. 1943.

Lyonel Feininger. Bartusserkirche. 1924.

Daniel Libeskind. Imperial War Museum. Completed 2002.

All of the examples predominantly use Colour and Shape to describe the artists thoughts and this is what makes these pieces so interesting. They are not just a random collection of ideas, they use different methods of delivery to allow them to come across as  carefully constructed pieces of work. 

CRAB by the Sea.

The AUCB is holding an exhibition for CRAB (office of Sir Peter Cook) which was created by a selection of 6 Architecture students. The exhibition was designed by CRAB but constructed by us, the images show the stages of creation from the first parts of lamination to the finished colourful display tables. The creation of the exhibition allows me to understand certain things that need to be included in producing a smart exhibition. 

Colour. Shape. Light.

A couple of captions to get the mind aware of these words within the Chine. Colour is in most of the things we view within the Bournemouth Gardens and throughout the day and night colour is perceived in a different way. Shapes are also extremely dominant in the Chine, the most obvious is the Wave 105 balloon, (which can be seen in an earlier post) because of its dominant size it draws attention away from the gardens themselves. Last but not least is light, the most important element that allows us all to see things. However, this being said the light might not be entirely relevant to the final piece I intend to complete. 

The Chine.

The first semester of year three starts with a 'non-architectural'  project focusing on Bournemouth Chine. The opportunity has been given to write our own learning agreements which allows for a huge scope of possibility. The focus for my own individual project is centred around Colour, Light and Shape. This was realised on my first walk through the Chine covering 2 miles that took the journey North from Bournemouth Pier to the Coy Ponds.

2 Day Skyscraper Task.

Challenge. Design a Skyscraper in 2 days.

Site.      Created site for task near the Gherkin. 

The images below are the creation of the 2nd year model makers after the joint collaboration to design a skyscraper. The brief was to make the tower as complex and fitting as we could imagine so that the model makers would have a challenge.