stage 1 design project: memory spot
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I did this project during my first year in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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MEMORY SPOTMarta Zembinskyte
Stage 12010/2013
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The memory was about me visiting a cathedral when I
was five, experiencing a building of a
substantial scale for the first time. I do not
remember the cathedral for its elaborate details or
religious objects within it, all that was out of the scope
of my understanding. All I could
perceive and remember was a feeling of an
enormous volume and light, perhaps what the
architecture of religious buildings share in
common, the language to define the divinity;
limitless heights and infinite spaces. And the light to
emohasize the voids. Architecture of the
cathedral uses contrast to communicate these ideas. It
contrasts scale of the human body to the scale of the
building. There are some memories about
materiality of the building that contributed to the whole
experience, cold sleek marble floor and white colons,
walls and ceiling to reflect light and emphasize the
contrast between chaos of the city and perfection of the
god’s home.
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Finding the right structural expression for the memory
involved making many preliminary models that explored
concepts of height, light and surface in separate.
Light
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Many of the models were made intuitively from
materials that were available at that moment and then
particular qualities of interest were emphasized in
further development.
Light
Surface
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This model that was made to convey the concept of
height and was the most succesful hence was taken to
the next stage of develpopment where I merged the
rest of the key ideas. The resulting model allowed for
experience of light and height by moving through the
structure.
Height
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Resultant model.
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Alternative model.
Scale 1:20
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Final model.
Scale 1:20
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The structure was intended to be built in a rural area to
get unobstructed sunlight. The atmosphere within the
building would change in corespondance to the moving
shadow over the day and this would emphasize
co-dependance between the building and the light.