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Appendix
from Master of Architecture Thesis, Astonishment in Architecture: Interrogating via Immersive Technology.
Additional Grounding (pages following).
i Brief text on James Turrell’s “Within Without,” as visited in Canberra in August 2014. ii Brief text on the first tests of ‘Light Mapping.’
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iii Five photo books on Extraordinary Spatial Practitioners: Louis Kahn, Peter Zumthor, Le Corbusier, Santago Calatrava, James Turrell. iv Four photo books on my own Resonating Influences in the field of grand experience.
On the iPads.
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Nine Grounding Films:
v 1 x “Within Without” Research Expedition Film vi 1 x “Light Map” Film Showing Initial interrogations of Light in precedent works. vii 3 x “Looking Up,” “Looking in,” and “Looking Out” films investigating each mode of experience viii 4 x “Interrogation Series” Films Showing ‘Ring of Sky,’ ‘Oculus,’ and ‘Combined’ films
ix The Manuscript App
x Final Composed Design Film: “Astonishment in Architecture.”
On Disk.
xi Spherical Projections to be shown at the final presentation in HIVE
In the formative weeks of this research (August 2014), to gain deeper understanding of the concept of Looking Up, and of James Turrell’s work, I studied and filmed the experience of his extraordinary space, Within Without, in Canberra. (see Appendix v). The oculus, as a perfect circle vertically above the observer, has a great power to silence the mind; many visitors sat in quiet awe of the oculus, staring up at it and the sky beyond, for a long time, as the room changed colour around them. Looking Up removes distraction, and connects the eye to something greater, beyond us.
Light Mapping.
When ‘Light’ was first elicited as a tangible to extraordinary presence in architecture, a series of drawings were made that analyse the quality of light, and dark, in photographs of key spaces of the practitioners studied. The digital drawings classified levels of light, or darkness, in the image and colour-coded them in a spectrum; dark blue is blackness, light yellow is white. With levels on separate layers, the images were then distilled to; darkness only, bright light only, or mid-tones only. This enabled me to see the balance of light as a tool used by the practitioners. While these drawings provided good insight into the use and power of light, due to their photographic origin, they may not be accurate representations of the space, and thus inaccurate drawings. They are still, however, the basis for the studies of Light in this dissertation, and influenced the use of light and shadow in the final interrogations, particularly in the Foyer space. See Appendix vi for further light mappings shown through film.
First tests of Light, mapping the light in photographs. This image of Louis Kahn’s Philips Exeter Library Atrium. Original image (Rykwert 2001).
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Software Used:
[Sketchup, Lightup, Lumion 3D, Unity 3D, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro] Adobe. 2014. Adobe TV: Adobe CC Indesign, After Effects and Premiere Pro Tutorials. http://tv.adobe.com/ (Accessed October 2014). Billyard, A. 2014. Lightup Tutorials. http://www.light-up.co.uk/index.php?t=resources&vc=AU&c=USD (Accessed August and September 2014). Lumion 3D. 2014. Lumion Tutorials. http://lumion3d.com/tutorials/ (Accessed August, September and October 2014). Sketchup. 2014. Sketchup Tutorials. https://www.sketchupschool.com/ (Accessed August and September 2014). Unity 3D. 2014. Unity Tutorials. https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules (Accessed August and Sep tember 2014).
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