The Studios! Take 2

Meddle/Josephine

Louise Bourgeois's studio remodeled:
As i mentioned in the earlier post for this studio I have tried to have the staircase as a central part of the building and not just as a method of transportation. In the lecture there were some examples of spiral staircases but none I really felt that encompassed a double helix structure. The rooms and base were designed with Louise's style of artwork in mind - The common themes seen throughout her work are loneliness,anxiety,jealousy and sexual tension. For my studio I focused more on Loneliness and anxiety and tried to accentuate this using long tunnels with small empty circular rooms. I hope also to emphasize this with my choice of surrounding landscape.

The Staircase

Complete Studio

The Studios! take 1.

Meddle/Josephine

This is the first of the two concept drawings i chose from my original 18 to use as a basis for the my proposed studios. My first sketchup attempt at these is shown below. I think my concept for the top studio is solid, but still needs more detail and maybe a little more structure - This I hope to achieve with the addition of my stairs. After discussing with Shaowen I have decided to remodel my bottom section completely because as it stands now, I think it is to conceptual and the functionality is lacking in quite. I am going to try and use the stairs in this studio as the destination and not so much as a way of getting from A to B.  

Reach/Meddle

The second concept sketch i created was from this sketch. The model is pictured below. Although I'm happy with the curves on the top half I think as a potential studio it is lacking, as the studio itself is a simple plane which again limits the options of descent to the gallery. The bottom half for me provides an idea i would like to keep working on structurally, Having a big main column with smaller rooms leading from it.  

Concept Sketches

Concept Sketches

For my sketches I chose the artists Ai Weiwei and Louise Bourgeois, their corresponding words were; Meddle,Post-modern,Combination and Reach,Desperate and Josephine. Personally I prefer having a really clear direction and knowing exactly what I need to do and how I'm going to do it. That meant that this assignment was quite unlike anything I have ever really done before and I found it quite challenging. I spent a lot of my  time thinking about space and how both artists would utilize it in their own personal style and from that here are my 

18 sketches:

 

Stelarc: Hand, Confronting, Mechanical

Ai Weiwei: Combination, Meddle, Post modern

Louise Bourgeois: Joséphine, Reach, Desperate

Cloud 9

I took this photo on one of my many plane flights home from Sydney to Byron Bay. The weather was amazing above the clouds but as soon as we descended below them it began flooding for two weeks.