4/5/2017 - The Fourth Obstruction: This + That

       "the artists, the architects, first senses the effects that s/he intends to realize and sees the rooms s/he wants to create in her/his mind's eye. S/he senses the effects that s/he wished to exert upon the spectator...These effects are produced by both the material and the form of the space." 
       The architect's general task is to provide a warm and livable space. Carpets are warm and livable. S/he decides for this reason to spread out one carpet on the floor and to hang up four more to form the four walls. But you cannot build a house our of carpets. Both the carpet on the floor nad the tapestry on the wall require a structural frame to hold them in the correct place. To invent this frame is the architect's second task.
       For this assignment, you are to begin with the already constructed notion of space and transform it, To do this, you will take 3 existing photographic views of the interior and transform them by cutting them, re-framing them, and drawing around them. It is up to you to choose the view, the amount of cutting that you want to effect on the image - keep in mind, however, the photograph's original perspectival lines, points, and other regulating systems - and the reassembly of  the image and its component pieces; you can also use two or more images or image fragments and "connect them" in a new way to begin to develop new spatial characteristics. Additionally, think about the material qualities and character of the new space, it's new scale, its relationship to the ground and the sky, etc. The final and generative view will be a perspective collage-drawing that reassembles the fragments(s) of the original view into a new composition. 

       What spaces do we want to create, what is the feeling we want people to experience as they enter the space and be in the space. We are creating the spaces, then finding out how they interact with one another and the envelope around the spaces. So for Friday, Professor Carranza wants 6 variations of this idea, from there we will refine and work with what works and disregard what doesn't.