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I made a few changes to what I had for the draft submission and I am feeling a bit stuck with progress. After speaking with my ta's it was decided that my concept called for a more labyrinth like space. I imagined platforms at the end of the stair cases I created depicting rooms that how certain programs like a place to share the secret, a room to leave the secret behind, etc. In my new model, I tried to create a colonnade of sorts to act as supports for the underground aspects of the folly. However, the folly seems to get lost in this grid system. I have also eliminated the curving arch ways from my first model as I found they were very arbitrary shapes. I need to figure out an entrance for the folly and supports for the stairs. If you could give me any advice that would be great. Thanks.

@eniatype P.S. Mr. Murray if you are reading this I sent you an email with regards to this matter. If you could get back to me that would be great :) 

Kind regards,

B

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My concept is to create a place dedicated to a secret. Essentially a person will have the option to enter two spaces, one above and one below ground. The space above ground will be a simple arch way that leads away from the secret that is held below ground. If someone chooses to go below ground, they will have to try to figure out a way to exit the vestibule. Overall, the folly is about the fate of a person's decision to learn a secret that will make them feel regret and remorse or to be free from all the melancholy. 

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Folly submitted for draft submission. 

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Task 4 - 30 January 2019

Rendering to bring context into a scene: 

As mentioned before, the folly will be separated into 3 realms. The realm above depicts an aspect floating above the ground plane and in the sky, perhaps amongst the clouds. The image captures a moment at night with an iridescence that can be interpreted as the moon’s illumination. This effect was achieved by manipulating the position of the sun and rendering through vray multiple times until the desired result was attained. The figure of the woman on the left has become the protagonist of the folly. The story of the woman experiencing heartbreak is the driving force for the folly. However, the folly should be a place for anyone to contemplate about hopes, dreams, and to move forward from any trials and tribulations that occur in life. The other figure to the right represents something unattainable. It is perched on top of the massing, almost looking over the folly below. This observer could represent a thought left behind by another inhabitant, a dream or an aspiration. Thus, the higher the massing is elevated the more difficult or important the aspiration will be.

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Week 4 - part III

Learning how to resize materials through texture mapping and manipulating the scale of the material. Interactive renders allow the user to choose appropriate scaling for the material detailing. The outcome is an ornamental approach the the massings created and brings real life materials to the scale of imaginative  structures and invisible follies. 

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Week 4 - continuation.

Learning how to manipulate exposure, shadows, image effects, etc. without using photoshop and directly editing through vray. Once again simple changes impact the emotion and experience of the massings. 

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Week 4 - 29 January 2019

Selecting various materials using vray on Rhino. Pictured above are aspects of the folly rendered in the textures carbon and milk. It is very interesting that different textures can create such differing experiences. Carbon is very sleek, poised and sublime. Whereas, milk is very gentle, soft and picturesque. In the final folly perhaps different textures can help depict a hierarchy of the realms created.

The tunnel like scene above creates an area to walk through and alludes to something in the distance.

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Task 4 Inspiration - 29 January 2019

Inspiration for task 4 includes some geometries I had created in week 1. The massings above demonstrate ribbing and are very light and seem to float. I will incorporate the notion of creating different realms into the final folly.

 One aspect will be high above ground level depicting the essence of thoughts and dreams. Another aspect will be placed at ground level to depict a massing that can be “inhabited” and bring the “cosmos” into a worldly plane. Lastly, there will be an aspect below ground to represent the past and moving forward in life and with time. The transparency of the images above is quite interesting and I wish to depict parts of the folly as open and others as closed to represent public and private spaces. 

The image below depicts a looming figure looking down upon another. The drama creates an intense suspense between the two entities. In final renderings I wish to include this feeling of something or someone watching over or looking down upon another. Thus, creating an invisible tension or connection between the two realms drawing them together.

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Task 3: original draft. I believe that this mapping demonstrates more context and displays the arbitrary shape I selected to represent the folly. 

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23 Jan 2019

Train lines, foot paths, past the hidden site, finally to home. Can you spot the site of heartbreak?

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15 Jan 2019

By simply importing images of the places I passed on my walk home from school, I manipulated lines to create intricate shapes. I decided to import the audio recordings (refer to previous posts) that depicted important sounds I overheard. These very gentle and light massings were created. Almost as if floating like the thoughts and words of people that can only ever be heard again via the recordings I took. An innocent secret brought to life by Rhino.

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17 Jan 2019

Loft and sweep

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17 Jan. 2019

An ode to loft and sweep.

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16 January 2019 - 9pm

After an incredibly long day I decided to record my journey home again. On the same path from the architecture building to the train familiar sounds revisited me. Feet shuffling, soft chatter, sounds of the train and cars passing by. These sounds perhaps were foreign to me until I began to really listen to them and understand their essence. I never really understood the concept that silence had a sound until I noticed the lack of silence in my everyday life. As I passed over the bridge and the peculiar site I ceased to notice, I remembered the sad woman and wished her the happiness of the two young men I sat beside on the train on this day. They were chatting about their plans for the weekend and about how their day went. Their positive remarks made me realize that each day we experience incredibly differing moments. In contrast to the sad woman, the young men were full of hope and joy. It simply takes silence to realize all the sounds and all the experiences around you. 

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“it’s not what I want it is what my heart wants” - 15 Jan. 2019.

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Task 1: Path of Heartbreak

I decided to document the sounds I experienced on my journey from Carleton University to my home. The journey started as I left the architecture building and made my way to the train station. My first recorded journey occurred around 3pm on the 15th of January, 2019. The recording consisted of various sounds including the train departing, feet shuffling and soft chatter. However, whilst seated on the train a woman beside me was having an intense conversation on the phone regarding a recent relationship she departed from. It was an incredibly harrowing experience to record someone expressing such despair. To my demise, she was walking in the same direction as me as I departed the train and began my walk home. Her thoughts were invaded by my phones audio recording device but as we both crossed a bridge that led from Bank Street to the residential areas, I finally noticed the space pictured above. As we both crossed this bridge the woman began to sob very quietly and let out the phrase “it’s not what I want, it is what my heart wants”. In the moment, I decided to dedicate my folly to this woman and to the peculiar site that I had somehow managed to never notice on my way to and from school for an entire semester.