Architecture 1o1
Part 2: From Place to Space
Well advanced on the journey ‌.
By Clare Lahiff (@clareuna)
Part 1: What I have learned Week 1 – History of Place/History of Space
This week we were to learn to create space, to claim it, to make it our own. We started with Stonehenge, understanding its relationship with the earth and the heavens, and modelling it conceptually. Then we took a particular place, photographed it and made it into our own space with rocks and our special sign. I wish I had placed my rocks physically.
Part 1: What I have learned Week 2 - Proportions
In week 2 we worked with proportion, examining relationships, real and imagined, between our bodies and the world around us. We visited Zabriskie Point, the Nazca Lines of Peru and the Lascaux Caves, and we transformed part of our body into a natural landscape with a pen. Finally we melded body part and earth image and stamped it in our own unique way.
Part 2: What I have learned Week 3 – Taking measurements
This week we looked at mazes and labyrinths – spaces within places; spaces in which we could get lost. We learned to see mazes everywhere – inside our homes, at our local shopping centre – and we learned to see emptiness from the viewpoint of an ant. Throughout we took the measure of our places and spaces.
Part 2: What I have learned Week 4 – Conceptual models
Week 4 found us under our bedclothes seeing the light as if in a cave. We transformed our cave with sun and moon drawings, populated it variously, and modelled it from cheese (how strange!) and thin white paper, trying to capture and convey its spatial qualities.
Part 2: What I have learned Week 5 – Papercut Models
This week we worked with papercut models in the scale of 1:100 – Durer’s Adam and Eve reduced to less that 2cm. We learned that it takes two to create space - two elements, with the space between; “the interval which gives shape to the whole”. To explore this concept we set our figures in an abstract world, a natural world and a digital world.
Part 2: What I have learned Week 6 – Building (digital) space
The last week of Part 2 of our course we build digitally – with games or block builders. We started from the walls and added base, columns and roof. We learned to be a little like architects as the software allowed us to view our structures in 3D. Finally we built our little hut – a protected place for us to rest after our efforts.
Part 2: What I have learned from others Week 1 – History of Place/History of Space
1.@mounesani
2. @melindagyorgy
3. @_sunaddict_
4. @Patricia2as
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Poetic image. Conveys the wonder and mystery of Stonehenge.
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Pure inventiveness how Melinda claims this space.
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Brilliant how this space is defined and measured.
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Install the rocks first. Then take the photo!!
Part 2: What I have learned from others Week 2 - Proportions
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1. @amor_gsanchez
2. @sonianrc
3. @lucydipierro
4. @mer_cedy
Brilliant exposition of a relationship between body and the external world. A compelling image.
2 “Having our own space … among a community”. Very evocative image from Sonia. 3 In her cave art Lucy continues to give us pure beauty. 4 Such a haunting and meaningful image. The Andalucian olive groves of her mother on Mercedy’s back.
Part 2: What I have learned from others Week 3 – Taking measurements
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1.@kristinaneral
2. @yeyamerida
3. @sabrosas_journal
4. @santilara
Strange and wonderful. I love how Alice’s striped stockings echo the striations of the measure.
2 A maze from pine cones for our ant. How magical! 3 Great images from Nina this week. Love the maze elements and sense of depth here,
4 This is a maze that leads me in. I want to follow!
Part 2: What I have learned from others Week 4 – Conceptual models
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1.@louis_conway
2. @aybigetek
3. @sabrosas_journal
4. @superflaja
Such gorgeous mysterious light from Louis.
2 Always quirky our Aybige! 3 A compelling image from Nina. How does she do it? 4 Perfection in composition from Stasa showing us her posh place. Blows me away!
Part 2: What I have learned from others Week 5 - Papercut models
1.@han_tro
3. @lizzielalayellow
2. @maisoun_architecture
4. @jo_zaj
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This is scale in its simplest form. And between these two figures space is created.
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Wonderful composition and great use of print create a different sort of space.
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More print and such colours as we expect from Lizzie.
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These two are set in, and create, amazing spaces.
Part 2: What I have learned from others Week 6 – Building (digital) space
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1.@t.simjanovic
2. @mgdorzi
3. @solofondente
4. @chahramoon
Perfection in four simple elements!
2 Elegance is the keynote of all @mgdorzi’s work. Compelling image. 3 This makes me smile so. That horse!! 4 Such a poetic image of a little hut, neither more nor less, to rest in.
Part 2: What I have learned from others
My heartfelt thanks to everyone who has been involved with the running of this wonderful course and to all my fellow students. You have all been such an inspiration to me and I so value our community. See you all again in Part 3.
Part 3: The mental space of a simple mind
Week 1. My conception of Stonehenge – circularity, whiteness, light, fire, ritual.
Week 2. Have never seen Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point but I was intrigued. Here I overlaid an image from the film with another of his images. Can almost make out the facial features of the large figure. What spaces are created here?
Part 3: The mental space of a simple mind
Week 3. I don’t like to make waves. I don’t like to challenge people unduly. I do like to be challenged a bit. Maybe just a gentle maze amid the gentle waters; visiting and revisiting places of repose and reflection.
Week 4. Under the bedclothes was a challenge. I could not get the light right and it messed up my hair. Too often I feel I aim for a little poetry but get pedantry and clichés. Musing on such things ….
Part 3: The mental space of a simple mind Week 5. I was so happy to use an image from PolyFauna. They had captivated me from the first. This week was all fumbly fingers with little people till I discovered the BluTack. I think I have created good space here; now to learn about shadows!
Week 6. Amazing how a week that started in such frustration (Grrr! I hate those games!!!) could have ended in serenity. Here is one version of my little hut by BlockArt. A space of removal, of repose, for my avatar and her little one.
The Last Page More than half way through the journey‌. Where to now? Still aiming to use red ‌.. And for a looser style!