Project 1 – SLEEP/WAKE: CONCEPT
Studio 1 – Fabrication
Week 1 SLEEP/WAKE 28 February 2019 Today we were introduced to the concept of Sleep/Wake and its differences and similarities. We were set a task to draw a series of blind drawings of what we see when we fall asleep and wake up, thinking about movement and light and darkness. Our next step was to look at everyone…
Studio 1 – Concept Drawing
Week 1 – SLEEP/WAKE 1 March 2019 The sleep/wake condition means that I experienced the underlying ‘ordered reality’ (of my bedroom) at the same time as a blurred veiled vision of rain, as I emerge from my sleep. I have experienced this vision since childhood. The drawing tries to bring the two conditions together with…
Studio 1 – Modelling
Process 4 March 2019 Week 2 – SLEEP/WAKE For this lesson we were told to bring in materials to model with. The models we created were to relate to our A2 Concept Drawing. I chose transparent materials to work with, as my concept drawing represents blurred rain veil. While these initial models were rough with…
Project 2 – Sleep/Wake: SITE mapping Thresholds
SLEEP / WAKE: SITE MAPPING: THRESHOLD 3
Site Visit This week we visited the site of where our project will be based. We walked from AUT across the bridge to Albert Park, where we drew sketches and took photos of the atmosphere. We made our way back to Wellesley St East and went into the lobby of ST Paul St Gallery Three…
A1 Site Map
My collage shows the memory of place and includes objects that make up the ‘colonial order’ of Auckland city. The silhouettes and columns are recurring ideas in my proposed site map. The figures upside down represent the pre-colonials which had their land built on-top by colonials. The structure of the nature in Albert Park is…
Precedent
1. https://moody.rice.edu/art/jaume-plensa This is an artwork by artist Jaume Plensa located Outside of Herring Hall on the campus of Rice University, Houston, Texas. His artwork is a laser cut sculpture of two figures, made out of some reflective surface. I thought this would inspire designing my ideal threshold, as the figures relate to the silhouettes…
Site Drawings
The site survey plan above shows light, sound and history. I traced the Felton Mathew plan on my drawing because I wanted to link the connection between that and the gallery through the colonial reality of Auckland city. I felt as if they both were straight forward and showed aspects of order and simplicity. In…
Threshold Proposal Model
I feel as if I have clearly communicated my ideas (blur, fluidity, weightlessness, distortion and disturb) through my proposed threshold model and broken the ordered reality of the existing gallery with fluidity, light and softness. The threshold starts from the top of the stairs (outside), into the lobby and gallery and continues to the back…
Abstract Writing
28 April 2019 Exploring thresholds making people aware from a public busy city to the sleep/wake area. For Project Two I continue to explore the idea of Blur, Fluidity, Weightlessness, Distortion, Disturb, Softness as I did in Project 1. In my Proposed Threshold Model the reflective distorted doors show the fluidity and distortion and the…
Project 3 – sleep wake: two strangers
PROJECT 3 SLEEP / WAKE: TWO PLACES TWO STRANGERS
To start off our third project Sleep/Wake Two Strangers, we started by sketching ideas for designing our sleeping platform to fit into our gallery space. I sketched up a few ideas that related to my proposed threshold I designed previously in Project 2. My initial idea when sketching was to somehow compliment the curved ceiling…
Material Research
To make the waffle structure for my model, I will need to draw up the structure digitally and later on 3D print or laser cut it. I have little experience with 3D digital drawings, so this may be a challenge. Otherwise I will have to think of an alternative decision on how to make the…
Model Exploration
I still was not impressed with my design, so I did some more sketches refining my design even further. I attempted to draw my design in 3D, however with the little knowledge I have for digital drawing, the result did not come out exactly as what I was expecting. I have made models from cardboard,…
Final Models
My proposed sleeping platform design continues the light box, fluid effect (of the threshold) throughout the gallery space. In the process of design thinking I really liked the idea of continuing the platform from the threshold, that showed a bold narrative behind making the models. When creating my 1:20 detailed model I had to consider…
AUT Spatial Design Fabrication 