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CONNECTION
Model 1: Using regular paper to represent the communication waves from satellites. I pierced the base since the waves travel through most objects.
Model 2: For this model, I threw on some green turf on the base to represent land and abstracted a pier to show the connection that it provides between land and water.
Model 3: Having had experience in the electrical field, one thing that embodied the word CONNECTION were splices between wires. I took various wires and spliced the ends to create what could be looked at as a nerve.
IMPRESSION
Model 1: I took the cubes in the glass of water from the collage and recreated them with wood cubes. I chose this picture because of the shadow that the cubes cast which further emphasizes the impression of Loneliness.
Model 2: Although it is meant to represent loneliness, this representation of a DNA strand is the complete opposite of it. A single DNA strand has multitudes of connections.
Model 3: To me nothing looks or evokes the feeling of loneliness more than a single living thing in a blank background. I chose to represent a my impression with a tree because although it represents loneliness, it somehow also gives you the feeling that it is somehow Good or that there is hope.
PROGRAM
Model 1: Nothing represents knowledge more than a book so for my first model, I chose to recreate a book.
Model 2: Art is a very important part of a neighborhood and a culture but in order to create art, an artist needs tools. Although this model is literal, each tool can represent something in the community center because both are very similar. In order for a community center to do its work, it needs various tools or parts to accomplish it.
Model 3: Lastly, this model is the lone abstract one (in my opinion) of the three from the Program collage. This model represents the activity of kayaking but I abstracted it to represent multiple things. The painted paper represents the water and its flowing motion. The piercing oar has ends made of small trees because it is a connection to nature made through the activity itself. This is very much like us humans in a community center. People go in and out of a community center everyday but not one day is ever the same and the connections are the ones made in the community center through books, sports, or tutoring.
I am sorry to say this, but I am bit disappointed after seeing this series of models. Too symbolic and narrative again. You should not design your building as the first object that comes to your mind (book, nerve, sattelite....). When using the wire, you did not create a space, you should think in space now, catching space, modelling space, making space... I liked the second model, but than I realized that it is the representation of DNA...
ReplyDeleteI think you should make few more models,more simple ones and more abstract ones. If you need an inspiration just check some of the best architecture offices (OMA, MVRDV, Herzog and De Meuron, Mansilla & Tunon) and see their models, especially the ones that they do on the beginning of the design process.
I hope you find these advises helpful.
Thank you for the feedback Elena. I have looked at various study models of the offices you mentioned and they helped me come up with the last 2 hybrids.
DeleteYou are welcome. I am glad it helped in any way.
DeleteI just want to say thank you to Ms. Elena Pazardzievska for being the "first responder" on this post. :)
ReplyDeleteI purposely refrained from commenting on this post earlier when I commented on other posts. After the previous post (which seemed to be going in a good direction) I didn't know how to start (without being misinterpreted). It's hard to say "this is not working". You nailed it wonderfully. :)
The symbolism that Mr. Velasquez used to portrait/characterize the place in the collages and subsequently the building, was in fact (for lack of a better term) stricken with naiveté, as Ms. Elena Pazardzievska noticed in a former comment.
However, as I said, the initial model studies were headed in good direction (away from the collages). The latest model studies are just not satisfactory in my opinion. Specially the copper wire and the 3 last ones. They seem to me like a step backwards, as if they were pro forma and done because you had to.
Please follow Ms. Elena Pazardzievska advices. Best thing you can do right now. I hope you can digest all the criticism: I have a helpful critical guy syndrome, as Scott Adams would say, but for the most part it is all constructive and helpful.
As a side note: when you mentioned you had experience with electrical field did you meant you already worked as a construction worker (part-time/full-time)? If so, what did you think of it?
When I was a teenager I worked at a construction site too, as a bricklayer apprentice (summer job). At the end of each day I thought "I have to make it to college. No way I'm doing this everyday." I managed to go to architecture school.
Today I think I should of worked in a hospital during that summer.
Yes I do agree, I really do prefer my first 3 study models over the ones above. I have taken everyone's feedback and came up with some hybrid models.
DeleteSide note reply: I graduated from a vocational school majoring in electrical installation and I later worked both in the field with my hands and in the office as an Assistant Project Manager. I preferred the hands-on side of my experience instead of the office.