Ideas/Development

So i've come up with a preliminary narrative:


"Night after night she waits. A face in a crowd of many, but alone she will remain"


I felt a key feature in this would be contrasts, as well as somehow convey a sense of struggle and on once side, incompletion and longing.

At first analysing the space inside the painting...

A little unclear i'm aware, but here are a few initial graphical ideas i had regarding the devision of the spaces within the painting. They communicate a notion of Choice, between enclosure and escape.

Also, they bring about questions regarding circulation and enclosure within the space. From observation, the enclosure can be seen graphically, but re. circulation, it's only really one of two. Despite an illusion of choice in where to sit, from where we are positioned as a viewer, we can either go into the cinema area or leave from the stairs. One has one direction and the other has many directions, leading to the same space with the same purpose.
You can see above a few ideas i've had regarding how to represent the ideas behind the narrative regarding spatial arrangements, possible 3D layouts etc.

Assignment 2 Begins

Our task for this assignment was to extract some kind of narrative from either a 17th C Dutch or an Edward hopper painting, then derive a series of rooms in accordance to this narrative.

The painting i've selected is Hopper's New York Movie.


This depicts an usherette who's alone an on the phone as moviegoers experience a movie.

Primary observations about the painting in an architectural standpoint.

- Focus/perspective.
The girl is in the foreground as a protagonist

- Lighting.
The painting is obviously devided into 2 parts according to colour, the masses are in the dark
brown shadows whilst the girl remains illuminated

The shadows occupy a much greater area than the illuminated part, showing a contrast between the masses and the singularity of the girl

- There are no windows, it is entirely enclosed
However, the movie screen can be seen as a sort of window, it provides light and serves as an opening for those inside to another place.

-There is a stark contrast in repetition and loneliness
Ceiling decorations
Door decorations
Seats

-The exit to the space is right next to her, however, due to obligation she must overcome temptation and remain


So to form my narrative,

- She is amongst the masses, but she's alone
-phone--> indicates she is bored and longing to leave
-Her physical body exists there but her mind has embarked on a journey
-She seeks to escape the repetition of her workplace

COMPLETION! :D ;D ;D

Here it is folks; our completed Villa Muller sectional model.

First up, some overall external shots:

North-East axonometric view

West Facade

South-East isometric view

South and West facades

South Facade

And now for the Interior/Detailed shots:

The sectional cut, located against the west facade

Fireplace in the Main Hall

Budoir, Library, Anter Room and the Doownstairs Bathroom

Detail Shot of the Budoir

Detail Shot of the Wardrobes and Upstairs Bathroom

The Parti Party at the Red Ctr (aka. All Nighter no. 3)

Not too much to report on for this, just knuckled down hard from dusk 'til dawn drawing.

Reporting on it now, i can't seem to find the actual diagrams, but will post as soon as they're located.

Working on Weekends Again (ALL NIGHTER NUMBER 2, pt2)

Continuing with our saga then...

In making sure all the rooms were correct, besides general cleaning up of dirt that may have stuck to the very easily dirtied watercolour paper, i noticed i had been missing a ceiling above my main hall, having to correct that also.

Shown below are the vareous stages of assembly...

This is a shot of the rooms, partially assembled in halves of the house.

Test fitting of the rooms against the exterior walls

Sunrise on Barker St!

All of the interior attatched to the main walls.

After all the rooms were in, we attempted to cover the exposed face of the section with watercolour paper, which involved a lot of careful gluing and trimming.

In the late morning, Franchesca left for an important event. Fortunately by then, the house had been assembled in it's marvellous entirity. :) (...sigh. forgot to take photos of the terrace being built)

I stayed for a few more hours to assemble the exteriors which had thankfully been built already.

Leaving at about 2pm, i had my drive-thru KFC lunch with the relief that the model had finally been finished.

Again, didnt take photos at this stage, but it brings us to the completed model, which will be seen in the next post.

Working on Weekends Again (ALL NIGHTER NUMBER 2 pt 1)

For students, the notion of "rest" during the things they call "weekends" is in fact a myth. One designed for the upkeep of student morale, a cruel illusion, like an painting of water before a thirsty man.

It was Friday the 27th of March, and i had gone back to uni to spend another night on the model. This time Franchesca stayed as well, in hope we could finish it by morning.

We continued building the interior room by room, but unfortunately, one segment was missing a doorway and a small room (closet in the budoir if i remember correctly) so it was rebuilt, salvaging what parts we could from its predecessor.

As rooms needed to be complete prior to fitting and assembly, we had to finish them. Needless to say, (perhaps aided by late-night susceptibility to distraction,) we got carried off on the tangent of creating modelmaking masterpieces of detailing as shown below.

Trying to win the "Best Fireplace" award...

Cutting even curves suck. Layering sheets to achieve volumes sucks. Which is why i love building toilets and bathtubs at 1:100. (The toilet seat and my taps on the bath mean i also won the imaginary "Most Detailed Bathroom" award.)

And i think Franchesca easily deserved the "Greatest bookshelves and cupboards in the Budoir" award

Self-inflicted punishment for coming up with stupid awards in which we're the only entrants...

More actually happens after sunrise but i think that warrants a new post...

Mock-Up before Parti'ing

Here are the mock ups for my Parti diagrams. Very rough sketches to put down ideas for what to draw, what to emphasize, layout.. etc.

And i really liked the collage-like effect i got from throwing snippits of the same image together using different settings (colour, greyscale and b/w) on my scanner so i played around w/ that for your viewing pleasure. :)

If that interferes with the clarity, sorry about that, but they're not really meant to be be precise anyway. Mock-ups!

Enclosure

Geometry

Circulation

Here is another idea i had for circulation...
i figured it's way too inconsistant though

Structure

Program (it seemed appropriate i made it even more collage-y)