art x architecture vol. 1
1 surrounding thoughts 04
2 tsuru 10
3 untitled cube 21
4 atrophy 22
5 apex 39
drawings 2011 - 2014
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SURROUNDING THOUGHTS primer 1 - fibonacci cryptex completed 2012
2 1 2 - 13 lines 8 pl an e s 5 vol um e s
T h e c ry ptex was con ce pt u al i sed wi th c o nstrac ting el em e n t s found i n dep th an d inters ec ti on s. Ini t i al e xpl or at i o n s i n v olved exper i m e n t s on cre at i n g d i ffe r ing dens ities t o expre ss con t r ast . F r ames w ere adopt ed t o mi m i c de p th an d lines ‘pierce ’ ai r, su gge st i ng voi d s .
F i n a l l y th e 5 vo l u me s i n te rs e ct th e f ra me s to cre a te i n cre a s i n g s e n s e of d e p th a n d s tre s s th e i d e a o f i n te rs e cti o n s . Wi th o n l y 1 vo l u me o p a q u e a n d 4 tra n s p a re n t, th e s i n g u l a ri ty s ta n d o u t re s e mb l i n g a s p i n e wh i ch h o l d s t h e head
process
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axonometric sketch
final model
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TSURU primer 2 - war memorial changi chapel museum completed 2012
The site rests outside changi chapel museum. Home to the memorialbilia of prisoners of war, it serves as a respite for relatives and visitors who wish to remember the series of event s and people involved. The memorial was inspired by the life of choo kim seng a survivor of war. The form of the
memorial was adopted by an origami crane, a symbol of peace and hope. Spaces were arranged in a procession of emotions namely sorrow, solace and hope. At a distance, a violent shard pierces through the wing evoking a preluding sadness towards the memorial.
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process models
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crane - parti diagram
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sorrow
solace
hope 17
front
back
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UNTITLED CUBE prelude 2 - art installation completed 2013
This installation challenges Tara Donovan’s philosophy in which nature can be recreated through artificial means. The central idea of this installation is essentially an attempt to question, challenge and adapt this viewpoint.
With the rapid increase of technology, personal privacy diminishes. Personal privacy then becomes no longer of relative importance to people. Some may even perc eive cameras the same way they perceive nature - as normal, a daily occurence.
This is expressed through the use of natural materials, leaves, attempting to take on the identity of an artificial form. The nature material mimics the artificiality of a cube, almost ironic a s artificial forms cannot exist without the lost of nature.
The artificial form is representative of the the present technological world. Nature and machines are therefore polar opposites in which one will inevitably prevail over the other. Would technology overshadow and take over nature’s relation with humanity?
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AT R O P H Y project 1 - dwelling completed 2014
A dwelling for an installation artist inspired by Tara Donovan. The design intention asked for a form that displaces an entity. The entity is associative and common to further the concept of displa cement. This entity ultimately took the form of a cube. The cube was divided into three levels each representing a level of the client’s hierarchy of needs.
At the bottom lies the most common of duties such as cooking and living, symbolic of man’s physical needs, placed closest to the earth, grounded. The second holds the study and masterbed room, the middle zone in which dreaming and reflection is facilitated. Finally at the top sits the studio (creation) of which is closest to the sky.
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Tara Donovan is an installation artist that uses everyday mundane artificial materials to create new forms that seems to mimic nature.
to crumble. The cube was made and placed in a static environment. Almost like a pause in atrophy.
In untitled cube, glass was laid in a timber mould piece by piece and was shattered at every addition. The result was a layered gla ss cube that almost looks as if it is about
The materiality of glass is expressed through the crakes and shards around the cube.
opposite tara donovan - untitled (cube) 24 // atrophy
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gate 1 As I ventured around the site, I noticed many gates and overgrown trees. The gates were previously gantries for the non existent industrial park, now deteriorated and weathered with time. The trees have grown a relationship with these man made gates by using them as supports. These inherent properties of material and nature were very honest. The relationship between man-made structures and nature was interesting and very inherent i n Ta r a D o n o v a n ’ s w o r k s a s w e l l .
cloud 1 I n m o s t o f Ta r a D o n o v a n w o r k s , t h e materials used were mundane and artificial. Much like sticks made by man. She would use these materials to infinite and only let the boundaries of the installation space decide how much of the material or space covered is a c t u a l l y u s e d . Ta r a ’ s w o r k s a l s o r e m i n d m e o f systems and structures, entities that follows a rule or proportion ultimately deciding form.
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explorative sketches on butterpaper
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cube
layering
hierarchy
displacement
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opposite construction of final model with interesting lighting qualities
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studio
2nd storey plan
master bath study
library
walk-in wardrobe
master bedroom
mezzanine plan
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opposite top: studio render bottom: study render
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dining
living
kitchen
foyer
1st storey plan
studio
study
living
walk-in wardrobe
kitchen
section A-A
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opposite top: exterior render bottom: kitchen and dining render
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SELF PORTRAIT apex - collage 2013
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A DIFFERENT EYE photography 2013
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