2 Julia Crowe
Contents
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Intro
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Wire
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Site Map
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Part Three
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I Ching
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Screen
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Hexagram Map
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Part Four
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My Project
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Cardboard
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Part One
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Cardboard + Plastic
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Doodle One
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Part Five
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Doodle Two
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Layers
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Doodle Three
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Part Six
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Compositions
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Foam
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Plastic Packaging
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Lift Crit
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The Exhibition
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Part Seven
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I Ching Site Map
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Plastic Bags
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Nolli Site Map
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The Bin
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Installation Movement Map
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End
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Part Two
intro This project focuses on an unconventional way of approaching architectural design. Using systematic processes of randomisation in architecture that can translate into a physical context. The catalyst for this randomisation process is I Ching’s “Book of Changes”, used as a generative tool to produce large quantities of work across a ranges of ideas without critical thinking. Improvisation and subconscious making means the outcomes of this process are often unusual and unexpected as a result. Through approaching the design process with a lack of control this technique opens the door to new and creative opportunities of problem solving. Brief: Push the boundaries of what is architecture and what is art and how architectural processes can be applied in an unconventional way in a physical context with all the limitations of a real site. Within the constraints of the site install work in places that are chosen by chance, designing and developing as an individual and collaborating as a team. Materials Used: Wire, Cardboard, Foam packaging, Yarn, Thread, Elastic, Cello-tape, Plastic bags.
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Site Map
The University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning Building Level Four Third Year Studio Plan, 1:100
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I Ching
How to Use the I Ching: The ancient divination practice of “I Ching� or The Book of Changes was used to randomise architectural design processes through the symbolism of hexagrams by exploring the unconscious. Method: 3 coins I Ching book 1. 2. 3. 4.
Hold a question in your mind Take three deep breaths Toss three coins twice Use the combinations from the coins to find the hexagram1 with your reading 5. Interpret the reading 6. Apply or Repeat
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A hexagram is made up of six stacked horizontal lines either broken or unbroken. The are 64 hexagrams in total.
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My Project
Themes. My work uses random found materials and explores the idea of invisible tangible architecture through the use of unfolded plastic bags, packaging foam and cardboard etc. Taking familiar materials and reimagining them into new elements that could be used in the built environment e.g. screens, partitions, double faรงades, curtains etc.
Ideas. + The linear relationship between mass and
scale + How to make a material appear much heavier than it is through scale + How a material of little economic value can be given an ethereal quality and a powerful presence through its treatment + How materials can have different properties in different states using similar processes + How to create an atmosphere/experience out of something that is barely visible + What can be discovered in the places between art and architecture and what is the distinction between these two disciplines
Precedents. + British artist Richart Sowa creator of Spiral Island in Mexico, 2007.1. + Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen collaborative Snarkitecture, in collaboration with COS clothing retailer to create a space for Salone del Mobile at Milan Design Week.2 + Swiss sound installation artist Zimoun's 30'000 plastic bags, 16 ventilators, 2010 installation.3. + American architect Steven Holls Nelson Atkins Muesum of Art.4. + Designer, Petra Blaisse.5. 1. Maria, "Richart Sowa; A Green Island Made of Plastic Bottles" Green Travel Life. May 25, 2016. http:// greentravelife.com/richart-sowa-a-green-island-made-of-plasti-bottles/ 2. Ferrarini, Paolo. "Milan Design Week 2015: COS + Snarkitecture" Cool Hunting. May 25, 2015. http://www.coolhunting.com/design/milan-design-week-cos-snarkitecture 3. "Works" Zimoun, May 25, 2016. http://www.zimoun.net/works.html 4. "The Nelson-Atkins Muesum of Art" Steven Holls Architects. May 25, 2016. http://www.stevenholl. com/projects/nelson-atkins-museum-of-art? 5. "Navigation" Petra Blaisse. May 25, 2016. http://www.insideoutside.nl/en/cornell-university-usa.htm
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Doodle One:
The Well The passage of time cannot add to its dimensions, nor take anything away. Still, just as the well can be deepened to produce clearer water, we can enrich our lives by delving deeply within, to tap our essential nature and reach the true source of our spiritual nourishment. The image of the well suggests that going more deeply within produces clarity. Rules: Listen to music, draw with coloured pencil using only blue and yellow, close your eyes, focus on the music, do not look or think about what you are drawing, change pencil at the end of every song.
Doodle Two:
Enthusiasm Enormous creative energy is unleashed by enthusiasm. This energy is like powerful music that inspires great numbers of people, loosening old constraints and sprouting new opportunities. The power of enthusiasm is best symbolized by music and dance. It is guided more by the heart than the head. Great good fortune can follow when the leader of an enthusiastic group is a person of strong character, one who is able to guide this positive force toward a favorable destination. Rules: Use colours that symbolise enthusiasm and positive energy, listen to music, capture energy and movement in your drawing, only use repetitive hand movements, move around the paper as you draw, draw the sound of the different instruments, don’t think.
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Doodle Three:
Limits and Connections Only by consciously accepting useful limits can your energy be channeled to good purpose, and lead to lasting accomplishment. Even limitation must be limited, so that in the effort to bring order and direction into your life, you do not choke off vital sources of lively enthusiasm and spontaneity. If the rules are too soft, sloppiness becomes acceptable, and energy is soon dissipated. The best path is one that allows for the fulfillment of individual potential, while encouraging self-discipline and focus. Rules: Draw whatever comes to mind, don't think, don’t come back to unfinished parts.
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Be FAR MORE AMBITIOUS in the materials you are using. PAPER IS PROVISIONALLY BANNED.
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Plastic Packaging
Deliverance A period of clarity and fresh opportunity follows after a thunderstorm, or any time of extreme tension and obstacles. The storm has the effect of clearing the air and suddenly reducing atmospheric tension. Look ahead. Attend to any residual matters that need resolution, and do so as quickly as possible. Rule: Don't think.
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The Exhibition
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Nolli Site Map Installation Locations Plan, 1:100
33. Material: Wire Height: 2.70 m Length: 2.44 m Width: 0.30 m Weight: 0.20 kg I. Ching 36, Darkening of the Light
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Movement Map
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Wire
Material: Wire A translation of Doodle Two into a three dimensional form. This object possesses kinetic energy when interacted with. I Ching: 36, Darkening of the Light Location: 33 Weight: 20 g Length: 2.11 m Time: 32 m Attached with: Masking Tape
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Making Process
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Screen
Material: Plastic Bags I Ching: 11, Harmony Location: My Flat Weight: 90 g Length: 3.5 m Time: 2 h 46 m Attached with: Yarn
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Put the handles of Bag Two through the inside of Bag Ones handles.
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5. Reapeat this process x 20.
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Location: My Flat
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Screen
Location: My Flat.
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Cardboard
Material: Cardboard A translation of Doodle Three, expressing movement and weight. Has potential to be used as a mapping system or for acoustic absorption.
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I Ching: 14, Affluence Location: 42 Weight: 70 g Length: 1.8 m Time: 3 m Attached with: Pins
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Cardboard Catalogue A catalogue of pieces in reference to where they are pinned to the board. Method: Rip a piece of cardboard and fold into a shape that looks like a paper plane. Pin to the board in the order you pick them up. Pin them in under 3 minutes Fill the length of the board Don’t have a pattern or sequence.
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Plastic + Cardboard
Material: Plastic Sheet + Cardboard Card pieces moved from the pinboard to a plastic sheet to done to allow for movement in the installation that was suggested in Doodle Three. I Ching: 8, Holding Together Location: 37 Weight: 30 g Length: 5 m Time: 43 m Attached with: Yarn and Cello-tape
Section, 1:50, The area the plastic moves. Lengtjh: 5 m Width: 60 mm
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Material: Plastic Bags Plastic bags of the same colour and opacity cut into strips at different lengths, folded over at the top and sealed with cello-tape, hung with elastic, evenly spaced. - Acts as a light diffusing screen - Could function as a facade or partition I Ching: 35, Easy Progress Location: 42 Weight: 40 g Length: 1 m Time: 21 m Attached with: Elastic Thread and Cello-tape
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Open the middle section and cut it in half on one side
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I Ching: 35, Easy Progress Location: 7 Weight: 60 g Length: 2.5-2.8 m Time: 34 m Attached with: Yarn and Cello-tape Location: The University of Auckland School of Planning and Architecture, Fourth Floor, Third Year Studio.
I Ching: 35, Easy Progress Location: 37 Weight: 60 g Length: 2.5-2.8 m Time: 20 m Attached with: Yarn and Cello-tape
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The size of the rectangles indicates the space the installation occupied. The numbers beside the rectangles indicates the order in which the installations were moved 0.1 x 1.0 m2, 0.9 x 2.8 m2, 0.5 x 1.0 m2, 2.5 x 2.6 m2,
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I Ching: 35, Easy Progress Location: 37 Weight: 90 g Length: 2.5-2.8 m Time: 21 m Attached with: Yarn and Cello-tape + Panels function as a light diffusing screen. + The material quality of this instalation made people interact with it by walking on and through it, unlike other installations in the exhibtion. + How a transparent curtain can darken a space but still keep a visual connection to outside.
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Material: Packing Foam (Polyurethane foam/ Polystyrene) I Ching: 56, The Wanderer Location: 7 Weight: 50 g Length: 2 m Time: 11 m Attached with: Pins
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I Ching: 56, The Wanderer Location: 4 Weight: 50 g Length: 2 m Time: 5 h Attached with: Cotton Thread + Can function as curtain, a partition or a screen.
Location: The University of Auckland School of Planning and Architecture, Fourth Floor, Balcony.
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Length: 2.0 m Width: 2.5m Weight: 80 g Material: Polyethylene, sewn with cotton thread
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Location: The University of Auckland School of Planning and Architecture, Basement Carpark, Skip.
Location: The University of Auckland School of Planning and Architecture, West Wing Lift.
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Lift Crit
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I Ching: 56, The Wanderer Location: 14 Weight: 50 g Length: 1.7 m Time: 5 h Attached with: Masking Tape
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Movement Map of the Lift Crit Location: The University of Auckland School of Planning and Architecture, West Wing Lift Number of Stops: 15 Number of people: 7 - 10 Duration: 13 Minutes
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Plastic Bags
Material: Plastic Bags I Ching: 35, Easy Progress Location: 37 Weight: 10 g Length: 2.3 m Time: 29 m Attached with: Nylon
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Location: My Garage, Mount Eden
Location: The University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning, Fourth Floor Balcony
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The Bin
Case Title:
The Bin
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The University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning Building Carpark.
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11th April 2016
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Narrative:
At approximately 07:28, Monday 11th April 2016, two installations were cut down from the balcony of the fourth floor of The University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning Building by an unidentified member of the public. At approximately 07:48 the installations were found in a skip in the basement car park.
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Movement Map the Morning of The Incident: Plan, 1:500 Black: Installer's movements Red: Unidentified member of the publics movements
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Plastic Bags
Material: Plastic Bags I Ching: 42, Increase Location: 4 Weight: 1.6 k g Length: 3.5 m Time: 96 h Attached with: Nylon and Cello-tape + No system to making. + Juxtaposition between mass and weight. + Could act as a screen or a partition. + The way the material has been treated gives the material an ethereal feel, moves when interacted with.
Location: The University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning, Fourth Floor Studio
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1. Acquire one plastic bag
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Height 3.8 m Width 4.9 m
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end This project centres around physical making at a 1:1 scale using found materials to explore the role of chance in architecture. This has been a generative process that puts critical thinking on hold and allows ideas to be explored to their full potential whether they are good or bad. The concept of risk and chance through out this process in studio has parallels to real projects with set limitations and restrictions. Furthermore it demonstrates how materials could be applied in the built environment for example to create atmospheres using plastic screens. This project could be explored further explored through the use of light, sound, texture,opacity, colour and the application of different scales. The experience of light, sound and space can be investigated in more depth and be manipulated so that new perspectives emerge. My project has the potential to constanly re-configuring the organisation of a space and create new experiences along the way. There are endless possibilities this project could be pushed to perform.
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