TIME TRAVELER AZIN ETESAMI
‘How
can one travel through time’ you ask?
First consider travelling Moving either forwards
within the
three dimensions
of space.
or backwards, left to right or up and down on the three perpendicular axis.
Now consider traveling along the axis of time, also known as the forth dimension. How can one move along this axis? Even more specific, how can one travel faster, slower, This portfolio attempts to visualize the notion of time travelling.
or even in reverse on the forth dimension?
Bachelor of Applied Science Civil Engineering
in
Arrival to Vancouver, Canada
Engineering Assistant
2007
“...
2008
2009
Farzin Yadegari Architect Drafter
2010
the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistant illusion.”
Liberty Homes Project Coordinator
2011
-Albert Einstein
Explore
Berlin &
Amsterdam
2012
Tehran
Architectural History Contemporary + Visual Arts Thinking by Design
Quebec City & Montreal
Architectural Design
Los Angeles San Francisco
2013
Summer M AKE
Sustainable Building Science Program
London & Paris
Homemade Dessert Open Competition
Toronto & New York
2014
TIME NIBBLERS STOP
(2012) Digital Art Project in semiotics Conventional Sign Versus Linguistic Sign
WORK OF ART inspired
The
(2012) Conceptual Art by: John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art Font:Cambria Size: 12 pt
choice of the font was based on the default setting of
Microsoft Word.
TIME FREEZE
SUBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE FARTHER THAN THEY APPEAR Mirrors
(2012) Mixed Media are installed in the room at average eye level
representing the human eyes.
TIME FREEZE
gaze /gāz/ noun 1. A long steady look.
“The gaze is a psychological term brought into usage by Jacques Lacan to describe the anxious state that comes with the awareness that one can be viewed.” The
subject loses a degree of autonomy upon realizing that he/she is a visible object.
TIME CAPSULE (2012) Part
of a series of photographs taken from the park
bench plaques.
Street
to
The route is part of the seawall from Bute Convention Centre in downtown, Vancouver.
TIME CAPSULE
LENGTH. WIDTH. HEIGHT. DURATION
STRAW MAT Knitting 20
(2013) Mixed Media
this beach mat out of straws took me over
hours, using over
2,000
drinking straws.
Synthetic Vs. Natural Self-sustained Rural Communities Vs. Urban City Dwellers
“1D line without points; 2D plane of 3D space are all meaningless.�
without lines;
3D
space without planes; duration without multiple frames
TIME WARP 6:55 pm 8:15 pm
11:50 6:30
am pm
SAN FRANCISCO (2013) Photography
10:45 9:43
am am
Attraction Points
9:15
am
9:00 9:15
am pm
Current Path Through The Iron Grid City
9:15
am
9:43
am
101 California Street Designer: Philip Johnson
- 10:45
am
- 6:30
pm
Lombard Street
11:50
am
California Academy of Sciences, Japanese Tea Garden and De Young Museum
6:55
pm
- 8:15
pm
Golden Gate Bridge
Shortest Path Through A Sustainable Grid City
TIME MACHINE I
AA SUMMERMAKE (2013) Design
and production of
a time machine leading to a architectural intervention.
1:1
Investigation, conception, modelling, prototyping, and
building using design software, wood and metal workshop tools and
CNC
machinery using wood
primarily sourced from the forest.
AA SummerMAKE Hooke Park, UK
TIME MACHINE I WORMHOLE (2013) Mixed Media Model inspired by the idea of wormholes. The idea is for a person to
SITE REGISTRATION
entered into the yellow web and as one gets
further into the hole, their weight works
against them, creating an even longer worm hole.
As
it takes longer
to get out of the hole,
one’s perception of time is challenged.
AA SummerMAKE Hooke Park, UK
TIME MACHINE I
numerous models were built during the design phase before reaching the final design
for prototyping.
MODEL MAKING AA SummerMAKE Hooke Park, UK
The 3.5D Mechanical Model
took inspiration from the idea of wormhole. It is a passage through space-time.
The
legs open up and close down using joints.
TIME MACHINE I
CONSTRUCTION PHASE
AA SummerMAKE Hooke Park, UK
TIME MACHINE II
This 2.5D
time machine was modelled in
CAD
and the pieces were cut using a
gyroscope and how it is used to measure and maintain orientation.
The
can become a flat plane which can then be moved to a different location.
AA SummerMAKE Hooke Park, UK
CNC
machine.
The
project is inspired by the idea of
parts are interconnected via a fixed axis.
The
entire structure
TIME MACHINE II
AA SummerMAKE Hooke Park, UK
BRUTALIST FACELIFT COMPETITION KAROSTA, LATVIA (2013) Group
submission for an
open competition with the objective to change and redefine the future of the brutalist apartment buildings in
Karosta,
located in
Liepaja City, Latvia.
These
military quarters silently bear the scars of
their painful past. of
Maintaining the integrity the primary structure, suggests longevity, well-deserved for memory and reflection.
Window Opening SESC Pompeia by Lina Bo Bardi
The
concrete finishes remains ‘unfinished’
not to disrupt its on-going decay.
‘A SPIME’ Spime
is a neologism for a currently theoretical object
that can be tracked through space and time throughout its lifetime.
The
name ‘spime’ for this
concept was coined by author
Bruce Sterling.
Derelict
The
omission of interior walls, allows
observers to sense
the absence of occupancy. It is as though an interior ‘veil’ has been discarded indicating the loss of the soldiers who once occupied these premises.
Juxtapose to this ‘red guards’ ‘shield-like’ defense.
banality, a deliberate introduction of the in grids reinstates its
Interior illumination through porous shields symbolizes stained glass windows as seen in places of worship.
buildings, no longer serving the original purpose, are reborn with strikingly new interventions.
E
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:
azin@alumni.ubc.ca