My thoughts

Figure 1: Void

Figure 2: External supports

Figure 1 forms a reflection of my design for clients Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawkings. The nine prisms are placed on either end of the structure while one laboratory is slightly elevated with a linkage of a glass floor keeping the original design of the prisms and to distinct the spaces from each other. The idea came from the glass void (Fig 1).

Rectangular columns would be used in such a way to support the laboratory being elevated while making space on the landform where clients could exchange their ideas. The columns do no stop at ceiling height or whatsoever but extends pass the building height. The columns not only being used as supports but also as sun shading devices. (Fig 2)

Parallel Projection - 9 prisims

Two completely different parallel projections interconnecting each other.

An "Electroliquid Aggregation" quote

The eureka moment of the development of intelligent life is more striking than the fact, that having great successes, not everything is solved.

Pair of axonometrics - Sketchbook

Pair of axonometrics - Crysis

The Three Quotes

Charles Darwin

“Scarcely any palaeontological discovery is more striking than the fact, that the forms of life change almost simultaneously throughout the world”.

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species. Chapter 10 – On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. United States: Oxford University Press 1996


Stephen Hawkings

“There's nothing like the Eureka moment of discovering something that no one knew before.”

Stephen Hawkings. Lectures, Public Lectures, My Life in Physics. http://www.hawking.org.uk/


Nicole Kuepper

“Read at night, keep informed about the world through radio and television and refrigerate life-saving vaccines”.

Smith, Deborah. "Thinking outside the square finds light in oven". The Sydney Morning Herald, August 20, 2008, Environment Section.

Model in Google Warehouse

Link to Developed Model in 3D Warehouse
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=282adf566638301ba03e08e8854449c2

Final Developed Sketchup Model

A perspective view of studio above datum.

One wall of the gallery is glazed for external views and relaxation.

This view was chosen as the stair case captures the audiences attention.

1. You are in the gallery.

2. Imagination takes place.

2 Dimensional section drawings

Verb: Greet (PICCININI)
Verb: Balancing (SWALLOW)

Above is the original design concept for both artists' workspaces.

The above space was moved to below datum and the above transformed into a more spacious space with an extended external staircase. (Could be seen in animation)

Materials Used

Interlock, Marble, Opaque, Indented, Fluid, Link and Reflective

3 Short Animations

A quick tour around the studios and gallery spaces.

Camera positioned at eye view perceiving the growth of the stairs and spaces.

A distinctive aspect viewed from studio below datum expressing stairs and extrance up to gallery.