what happens in arch...is here for display

And everything has come to an end.



First the textures used:





This I used on the the below ground studio because the word for the underground portion was 'desperate' and so the underground part tries to convey this sense of urgency in getting out of the ground and blooming - very organic. As the word this texture is supposed to convey is organic, this is especially appropriate.



This is the texture in used on the stairs connecting the gallery level to the studio above. The word is 'rigid' and to my point of view, stairs have to be rigid or else its not functional. Also, the word for the above ground studio is 'artifice' and rigidity does come to mind with it, hence the appropriate-ness.





Finally, the third texture. The word here is 'jagged' which is strangely appropriate when you consider that its used for the railing around the connecting staircase on the aboveground studio. In that studio half the ceiling is glass as is most of the shelves and railings in the studio. This texture conveys this sense of moving up and through which is one of the side effects of artifice.



Russell had surprised everyone quite horribly when he told us that we had to have balustrades on our stairs - especially so given what he said in the first lecture. But as my tutor told me, I got 'creative' and constructed balustrades. Here are the sketches:




I'd only constructed balustrades for stairs that do need them. I have six flights of stairs (which does sound somewhat excessive) but only two sets of balustrades for a very good reason. The rest has built in balustrades from the surrounding structure anyway. When you watch my 'round and up' video you can tell that not only does having balustrades would kill the flow of my below ground studio, the stairs there are also too low and wide for anyone to require balustrades.

Same for the above ground studio set of stairs that don't have balustrades. Its carved into the wall so the surround structure acts as balustrades! (this also can be witness in my videos 'up, up and away!' would be the best example)

Sketch basis for my model:

the words are 'artifice' above and 'desperate' below.



Photos of my model:


An overview from the front entrace.

Fiona Hall's studio - the very modern almost pop decor is following the word 'artifice' and that a lot of her work is taking the image of something natural and making it artificial.

Tracy Moffat's studio - from her interview and her other works she wants her paintings to have a sensual quality and what is more sensual that organically rising up from below ground desperately reaching for light?

The animations:

This one is an overview of my model if someone were to walk through it from the below ground studio all the way up following the stairs and out onto the balcony on the above ground studio.

I've emphasised in the previous weeks and above that my below ground studio is very organic so in the video above I've demonstrated the flow of the building from when you go up the first flight of stairs to the large concentric circular stairs and then leave for the gallery via the cantilever stairs going up.

Every week my tutor asks me 'what is the connection between your above ground and your below ground?' Well, here is it. The video is fairly self explanatory but its basically what you see what you come up from the gallery level and continue on to the balcony in the above ground studio and then looking up from the below ground studio.

NOTE: I accidentally switched the paintings of the artists when I was installing them in their studios. The below grounds studio is Moffat's and the above ground is Hall's.