I traveled to Barcelona and stayed for four days. During these four days I took different "hikes" through different areas of the city. As I did my daily hike, I would add to this drawing the experience and surrounding condition of these spaces. This drawing became a composite of these four days and my hikes through the city. Through line, color and stroke I attempt to emphasize how these different zones create a city that references the landscape of an architectural collage.
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Showing posts with label light. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
I traveled to Barcelona and stayed for four days. During these four days I took different "hikes" through different areas of the city. As I did my daily hike, I would add to this drawing the experience and surrounding condition of these spaces. This drawing became a composite of these four days and my hikes through the city. Through line, color and stroke I attempt to emphasize how these different zones create a city that references the landscape of an architectural collage.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Friday, June 21, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Based on science we know that there is only so much the eye can see. It is bewildering the let the mind ponder on the possibility there could be a world beyond the limits of our perception; one that could be simultaneously coexisting with what we know. Architecture is the condition of our built environment, and it is a component fabric that molds that which we can see. After visiting Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, I have come to think that this work is an example of architecture that pursues to reach the borders of our limited of perception. After visiting I learned that I could visit everyday for a lifetime and notice something which I did not know existed, or experience a space in a new way. Each hour of the day, day of the year, under different weather conditions I could probably learn something new, or miss something special that I was lucky enough to see in splendor on a sunny day. Other than being lit by artificial lighting as it is today, Goudi intended for the Sagrada Familia to be a light machine.
"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light
Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician."
- Le Corbusier
Vers une architecture (1923)
I planned to visit Barcelona's Sagrada Familia months before arriving in Spain. Prior to my visit I have read countless literature explaining the planning of the Sagrada Familia and Antonio Gaudi. I had also taken survey classes on early architecture, the principals, and prominent architects. There fore, I thought I knew plenty and that all I wanted was to visit. Little did I know at the time that I actually knew very little. it was upon arrival that my emotions took over into analyzing the experience of the space because although I've read about stained glass, height, and planning little had I read about how these things provoke emotion. Upon arrival I decided that I would not draw the long axis or the plans but the use of light in the space. Not only did it define the mass that contained the space, it also took the visitor and shifted them into an unseen dimension of exuberance . Subconsciously I began to take pictures, some were simple perspectives and others were quite awful detail shots. But eventually I began to take these large vertical perspectives, showing me how the light began to define the human's connection to the ground. Taken by this I began to draw it. Trying to define that aspect of light that provoked movement and exploration.
LIght, Mass and Space - Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia
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Exploring Gaudi's use of light for exploring mass and light. Looking to the south western corridor
The large dome spaces and use of stained glass to define mass
Use of natural light in the out most staircases becoming more intense you make your way up.
Stained glass and shadows
Monday, May 6, 2013
The city of Madrid has a unique texture of narrow streets and manzanas or city blocks that are very compact and dense. Each manzana is composed of low rise buildings, most of which do not exceed four to five stories. This "street type" is repeated across the terrain and cut through with larger avenues such as the Gran Via. The Gran Via today is an icon of Spanish consumerism. Although it hosts a space for consumerism this busy avenue is a container of Spanish history. Alot of the buildings along this street identify with other European styles such as German Expressionism, international styles such as Chicago style, and early archi-types of the Madrid Baroque style.
Upon my visit, I was taken by the historical richness of each street in madrid. But when I visited the Gran Via what captivated me the most was how the historical container accepted what was modern. I began to map out the extensive forms of appropriation that took place in this area. Appropriation that took place through sound, movement, modern commerce, street art and graphiti. To me the area surrounding the Gran Via as an example of parasitic perfection that punctured through the historic fabric of the city, creating an avenue that encompassed both the new current modern state and the history of the city. These drawings and photographs explore this condition, experiencing how these new modern forms of expression begin to break through the historical container they have come to inhabit.
Gran Via Leading into off avenue commercial streets : Calle Fuencarral
Photo-Blog: Images of FuenCarral
Residential appropriation, Grafiti Street art and noise from commercial grounds
Images of The Gran Via
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