April 2008 Archives
It all went extremely quickly! Thats new technology for you! They will probably be in London next week...
the first Recorpistery goes in next, buttresses, factories and backstage facilities coming out from under the stairs (which will disappear next as other stuff goes on top)
The view is Parallel, about 45deg by 90. It will fit into a plate the same size as the old plan, so 1:150
COMMENTS WOULD BE SUPER-WELCOME ON THS ENTRY!
Man tried to reach God through architecture and invention.
He failed
Today man no longer even sees a God to reach,
and so the Church has decided to use architecture and invention to bring God to Man.
It is doomed to fail. Beautifuly.
So in the end it is the Church's tower of babel.
in the rhino capture you can see what te gaps will be... mostly simple spreading steps.
Next Im gona try setting up a nice axo-type parallel angle and see how I can get it to fit-to-scale directly from renders. Which I know will be annoying to figure out. Then Ill do the first stage with the initial recorpistery and piece of Spectacular mass and see how it works out. I doubt ill have it done for tuesday.
you can see the various hills that will appear in each stage f the narrative, but which will all be present in main plan.
beginning of axon narrative/building plan
I am confused as to what is worthwhile in what I am doing.
I am thinking about it.
Naiara was very helpful.
We are submerged in the most gloriously voluptuous and dizzyingly complex aesthetic culture that man’s abilities in artifice has ever been able to achieve. Whether you turn on your television, your computer, your phone or your ipod, there is at a moment’s notice the hypnotic and dazzling copiousness of our furiously paced visual media; and venture into any department store or shopping centre, and with your credit card as the only barrier, there are as many obsessively design objects of desirous need as it is realistically possible to ever purchase before the season is out.
This cycle of sensual richness in which we swim has replaced placid contentment, or righteous rebellion with a perpetual cycle of momentary satisfactions, a constant series of miniscule goals which are forever being fulfilled by the unending flow of novelty coming towards us. And because of the need to produce perpetual satisfaction, all this spectacular form flies past us at ever-increasing rates, to the point where it can become difficult to remember what music video, designer or restaurant one was ‘into’ even a few months prior; and at the scale of buildings things pass-by just as quickly, and we are left either with singular artefacts from bygone fashions that remain as curious time-travellers, or we simply see the built fabric around us being constantly replaced as it approaches redundancy almost as soon as it is built.
In a necessary contrast to this flux stand the great institutions which care for our temporal and spiritual needs. The state and the church provide the anchor in the flow, the secure reference point from which citizens can safely navigate through the vertiginous and exciting waters around. These institutions stand for absolutes like truth, love, justice and permanence, and their buildings echo with the same resolutions. Churches have evolved to become lifeboat-like escapes from the wonderful and fierce culture around them. They stand in yoga-like suspension implying a return to essentials, a rediscovery of continuity and the possibility of permanence.
Fascinating as these churches are as great anchored artefacts, it seems that what would be far more interesting would be to have one of these aloof life-boats raise its anchor, set sail into the choppy waters, and trace its own course through the blinding colours of the culture around it. What would happen as an institution which treasures perpetuity above all else has to navigate through, and contend with a world that fulfils people’s desires in the blink of an eye while creating new ones in the very next moment? What kind of an architecture might happen when the desire for permanence and the impulse to change converge on the same blank-slate site?
I would like evetually to have the big plate with the candles +glow, but that is a problem bearing in mind my computer prolems. At least I have it in this image...
Spooky and dark: the black plate.
This is the monster at work on the 'white' travertine block. The disc cuts at 6000 revolutions a minute. Which means very fast for a stone-cutter...
"Which will it be Father: Plain, Mannequin, Drag Queen or Madame Tussaud?"
"I'll be taking a version 2C set of blocks, with 20percent of the faces -of every scale- rendered at Madame Tussaud Quality."
"Righty-Ho, we'll start working on them the moment we've finished the order from China. Have a safe trip home father and may the Lord be with you at all times."
"And you my industrious colleague!"
block types and two modes of assembly
it is bad, but done. Unfortunately I just realised I didnt write it with paragraphs... oh well!
The printed plate... It doesnt fit into my little flat, so i had to put it on the stairs to raise it up a bit!
Both the blocks looking realy pretty and ready for machining today!!!!
I am sooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!
With the two types of spaces -domical at meeting of paths and tall+thin corridor/path spaces- resolved and framed more clearly.
its all a-go-go:
