IMAGE BOOK
IMAGE BOOK A summary of a semester work Eloy Garcia 5 Januari 2015 Faculty arts & architecture Seminarie beelding
Table of content
Assignments Liberal blue 5 x A5 Workshop with Hugo duchateau Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Phorms of water Stone, glass & terra cotta
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Travelling Spa 64 Eindhoven 79 Soignies 80 StrĂŠpy-Thieu 83 Aarschot 84 Beek 87 Vaals 90
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Introduction
The seminar “beelding” is a dutch word that does not translate well in english. Words like imagenary or creativity come close but do not give the whole meaning of the word. The seminar beelding stands for the crafts related to architecture, it will also relate to the fundemental being of an architect namely the architect as a creator. Starting from an idea, a concept, a proportion, ... and realising it. The focus lays on materialising ideas. How to translate the mind of an architect in to a sketch, painting, material. The first encounter with a real painter Hugo Duchateau was inspiring. The way a painter sees is almost the same but the way they translate their ideas is free. He does not follow a structure and he will experiment with different materials, methods, and invent himself over and over. The other encounter with Lonny Van Rijswijck had a dynamic feeling. In half a day a concept and the realisation had to be made. This was a real challenge and taught about thinking innovative and effficient. De trips to all the different cities, factories and firms like the quarry of soignies, Design Academy Eindhoven, Glass blower in Beek are related to the seminar and architecture. They teach us about craftsmanship, graphic design, ... Stone, glass & terra cotta these tree materials are the elements of our last assignment. In the frame of the thought “feel universally, think globally, act locally” we these materials are all very local. Searching for craftsmen in the area wo could help us, managing these projects at the same time, keeping in mind a budget and a deadline. This project is a small preparation on what is in store if we would ever become an architect.
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Assignments
Liberal blue 5 x A5 Hugo duchateau Lonny Van Ryswyck Phorms of water Stone, glass & terra cotta
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-PresentationLiberal blue The colour of this year’s seminar is Blue. In function of this color a presentation was to be held every week about items related to this colour. The item we got was “liberal blue”. We made a presentation about the history and evolution in the world and in Belgium. Picture below shows a dia explaining the origin of liberalism in Belgium
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-Assignment 15 x A5 We want to look for a development of material affinity by creating a small collection of material. We also want to explore how a small material alteration an anonymous piece of material can be a surprisingly ‘thing’. We reflect on the meaning of the word ‘finish’.
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-Assignment 15 x A5
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-Assignment 15 x A5
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-Assignment 15 x A5
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-Assignment 2Workshop with Hugo duchateau The journey of Duchateau as painter and artist is a red wire trough his career. The painting and installations are influenced by nature. As he quoted during the workshop: “ The job of a painter is to see what others do not see.�
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-Assignment 2Workshop with Hugo duchateau Oil on canvas “ Two white beames” (2001)
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-Assignment 2Workshop with Hugo duchateau Doorzicht 2013 “Either you see beauty in all, or you will not see any at all.”
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-Assignment 2Workshop with Hugo duchateau Own work Aqaurel on paper New views
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-Assignment 2Workshop with Hugo duchateau Own work Aqaurel on paper Fallen water
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-Assignment 2Workshop with Hugo duchateau Own work Aqaurel on paper Winter horizon
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-Assignment 3Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Observation, thought and realization are the key features of Lonny’s design process. Everyday things that most people take for granted. Details that go unnoticed. These are the sources of her inspiration. Togetheter with Nadine they are Atelier NL Nadine Sterk & Lonny van Rijswijck
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-Assignment 3Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Tilewall by Atelier NL 2008
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-Assignment 3Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Curios minds by Atelier NL 2011
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-Assignment 3Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Sketches
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-Assignment 3Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Process
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-Assignment 3Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Process
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-Assignment 3Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Process
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-Assignment 3Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Process
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-Assignment 3Workshop with Lonny Van Ryswyck Final result
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-Assignment 4Phorms of water We are interested to see and to collect under which kind of form the water is represented. Still, floating, falling, silent..etc. Water as a mass or water as a drop. Play with the form of water by using cutlery and try to fix the movement of water. The ‘red line’ of the seminar (although the year colour is blue )of this year is clean water.
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-Assignment 4Movement The movement of water captured in a short film. The frames shoots at 0.5 per second this allows one to see the flow of water as a mass but also the flying droplets bouncing on the water surface.
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-Assignment 4Movement
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-Assignment 4Movement
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-Assignment 4Reflections An innevideble element of water is the reflection. In the next chapter the pictures will play with the reflected and the reality.
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-Assignment 4Reflections
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-Assignment 4Reflections
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-Assignment 4Reflections
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-Assignment 4Droplets A drop of water is physical explaind by the cohesive powers between the molecules. The droplet represent water in physical sometimes defining laws of gravity giving it an element of suprise.
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-Assignment 4Droplets
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-Assignment 4Droplets
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-Assignment 5Stone, glass & terra cotta The objects you see in his still lifes are like archetypes. In the history of industrial design quite several designers were searching for the ultimate form of a recipient. In many cases the shape looks like a reduced silhouet of a traditional flower pot. Still life with flask by Giorgio Morandi 1953
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-Assignment 5Stone, glass & terra cotta Diagram showing the basic concept of the two circles defining the shape of the glass and the ceramics. They play with open and closed mass.The sizes are those of the plastic number.
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-Assignment 5Stone, glass & terra cotta First sketches
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-Assignment 5Stone, glass & terra cotta First sketches
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-Assignment 5Stone, glass & terra cotta Visualisation
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-Assignment 5Glass Inspiration Kartio vase by Kaj Franck 1956
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-Assignment 5Glass Section of the glass. The glas are two circles defining the volume of the glass.
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-Assignment 5Glass Wooden prototypes
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-Assignment 5Glass Final Result Hand blown glasses
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-Assignment 5Glass Final Result Hand blown glasses
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-Assignment 5Terracotta Inspiration Teapot by Walter Gropius 1969 produced by Rosenthal More
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-Assignment 5Terracotta Proces
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-Assignment 5Terracotta Proces
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-Assignment 5Terracotta Pre-Final Result
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-Assignment 5Terracotta Pre-Final Result
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-Assignment 5Stone Inspiration Rutu by Cynthia Sah 2011
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-Assignment 5Stone As the complex level of the ceramics and the glass I wanted to present these on a neutral plateau. The shape is sober but the level of detail will bring a balance in this sober design. The format 16cm x 28cm fits the plastic number ratio of Dom Hans Van der Laan so in the end we can make a compisition of all the results.
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-Assignment 5Stone Final Result
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-Assignment 5Stone, glass & terra cotta Final Result
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-Assignment 5Stone, glass & terra cotta Final Result
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-Assignment 5Stone, glass & terra cotta Final Result
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Travelling
Spa Eindhoven Soignies StrĂŠpy-Thieu Aarshot Beek Vaals
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Spa Room with a view With 27 people we stayed in a home for three days. We cooked dinner, we laughed, we got to know each other. During the weekend we went to several places explained in the following pages.
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Spa Meals Every group had to design a card presentating the given meal. The food had to be linked with a local cuisine or cooking methods. The following pages show the designed cards
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Spa Meals
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Spa Meals The places to sit on the table were marked as a ridlle. This small paintings were made by our teachers and mine was an tropical island.
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Spa Abbey of Stavelot The abbey of Stavelot is a old abbey with a new connections betweens the wings of the building. This connections is the lobby of the different museums. This open volume with a curtain glass inspired by the proportion of the abbey.
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Spa Abbey of Stavelot Schocking facts are prestated in the exposition about world war 1. It is about the dark ages, from the german invasion till the french army in WalloniĂŤ. The feeling of the war presented by certain elements of how people lived in that time. Shown by photodocuments, uniforms, guns, writings, ...
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Spa Abbey of Stavelot In the basement of the abbey lays “Le Musée du Circuit Spa-Francorchamp”. Besides the water there is Francorchamps, a famous Formule 1 cicruit. In this museum the history of the circuit and ecerything involved is explained in an historical setting in the brick arched basement.
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Spa SPA Monopole The enterprise SPA monople makes clear mineral water. We went to the small company museum to see how SPA evolved in time. Trough some of the small circular windows we could see the beating heart of the place, the automatic bottle industry.
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Spa SPA Monopole
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Spa
Typical scenery in Spa. These wide spread green landscapes are common in this region and are relief coming from the centrum.
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Spa Domain BĂŠrinzenne This domain in the city of Spa was in 1979 protected by the Walloon region. The coorperation SPA monopele protected this area because of valuable ground water that drips trough the surface of the forest.
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Spa Domain BĂŠrinzenne
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Spa Domain BĂŠrinzenne
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Spa
Nighttrip to city centre walking trough the art-nouveau inspired gallerie.
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Spa
Closing drink at the hotel in an old mansion with in contrast a new hotel. At the backside we had a wine and we talked about the weekend at Spa.
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Eindhoven Design academy Eindhoven The annual graduation show of the design school is internation recognised. Upcoming talents are presenting their projects. This is an unique networking oppurtinity, something unfamiliar in the Belgian schools. The level of presentation and graphic design gives a very professional feeling. A collage of different items I brought home after the show.
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Soignies Les Carrières de la Pierre Bleue Belge The grand size of this quarry reminds of the industrial past of this area. Many quarriies lay in this city as it is a big source of the Belgian blue stone. A vibrant paste but now a shivery future. I tried to translate this into the photo below.
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Soignies Les Carrières de la Pierre Bleue Belge
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Soignies Les Carrières de la Pierre Bleue Belge
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StrĂŠpy-Thieu Boat lift On the old Canal in the late 19th - early 20th century four hydraulic lifts were built. However, the capacity of this channel was limited to ships of Class I or ship up to 300 tons. This particular lift shows a piece of early industrial engineering as well a romantic use of material showing the honest construction.
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Aarschot Trauerndes Elternpaar by K채the Kollwitz The father sits motionless upright with arms pressed together against his body. The face has a strong closed expression. The mother is completely bent over with eyes to the floor. She is dressed in a long robe, her scarf pulled tight. These were produced by Renier in Aarschot by a CNC machine a new method of reproducing sculptures.
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Aarschot Stock
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Aarshot Workshop “frijnen”
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Beek Glass blower In Beek we went to a glass blower “A.J. Janssen� He blows glass in a special way. He heats glass pipes by a flame tocrh centrufiging on a central axis. As the glass gets hot it melts and becomes transformable at this point he can bring shapes in to the glass.
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Beek A.J. Janssen
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Beek A.J. Janssen
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Vaals The St.Benedictusberg Abbey At the lower entrance of the abbey is a stonemason. This is the working place of the monk shown in the picture below. He follows the fundamental principles of spatial order set up by a fellow monk Dom Van Der Laan. He designed an alphabet specially for stone cutters.
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Vaals
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Vaals The St.Benedictusberg Abbey The architect also a benedectine monk staying in the abbey until his death in 1991, was a architectural theorist, his great contribution is the plastic number. It is about the fundamental principles of spatial order with practical design tools. It was considered an objective response to the fundamentals of perception, space qualities and elements of structure.
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Vaals
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“Architecture is born of this original discrepancy between the two spaces – the horizontally oriented space of our experience and the vertically oriented space of nature; it begins when we add vertical walls to the horizontal surface of the earth.” Dom Hans Van Der Laan
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