Formal narrative
[30 November]
I've decided to present one of the spaces for the end-of-term jury. I'm picking a space, writing the narrative for it (A man enters a room and stands still...) and then I'm making the necessary corners and the curves they generate in order to be able to model one of the spaces of the building.
We know a few things at this stage:
- The building is on a domestic scale
- Its program is to be a structure in suspension, a 'life' structure that holds frozen bodies in suspension, between birth and death and birth, so at least one space is dedicated to the archiving of human bodies
- On the other hand, it's not simply a single space dedicated to this one function - it is a building that features a range of 'ultimate' or 'extreme' space: one in which to die, one in which to wake up, one in which to sit down and read the past 30 years' worth of Popbitch, and so on. The inhabitants use these spaces not only once, but before and after the fact, so to speak. I could choose any of these spaces for this first model.
- It has yet to get a site (though I'm drawn to the urban - London, anyone?)
Here's the first version of a formal narrative for that first space:
Space 01 (first shower/last shower)
A naked woman enters a room through one of its corners and stands still. The room seems fairly small.
She moves slowly towards a corner diptych to her left: light from one of the corners brightens the other, in which she catches a glimpse of her own reflection. She is pleased with what she sees.
Turning around, her gaze falls upon a lit ramp leading down to a lower level. The room opens up and suddenly feels much larger. At the end of the ramp, folded towels are neatly stacked on a table. Water falls down through the opposite corner.
After the shower, a stair brings her back up on the first level, where she finds herself in a triple-height corner bathing in sunlight. She exits through a corner positioned diametrically opposite the one she entered through.
I've decided to present one of the spaces for the end-of-term jury. I'm picking a space, writing the narrative for it (A man enters a room and stands still...) and then I'm making the necessary corners and the curves they generate in order to be able to model one of the spaces of the building.
We know a few things at this stage:
- The building is on a domestic scale
- Its program is to be a structure in suspension, a 'life' structure that holds frozen bodies in suspension, between birth and death and birth, so at least one space is dedicated to the archiving of human bodies
- On the other hand, it's not simply a single space dedicated to this one function - it is a building that features a range of 'ultimate' or 'extreme' space: one in which to die, one in which to wake up, one in which to sit down and read the past 30 years' worth of Popbitch, and so on. The inhabitants use these spaces not only once, but before and after the fact, so to speak. I could choose any of these spaces for this first model.
- It has yet to get a site (though I'm drawn to the urban - London, anyone?)
Here's the first version of a formal narrative for that first space:
Space 01 (first shower/last shower)
A naked woman enters a room through one of its corners and stands still. The room seems fairly small.
She moves slowly towards a corner diptych to her left: light from one of the corners brightens the other, in which she catches a glimpse of her own reflection. She is pleased with what she sees.
Turning around, her gaze falls upon a lit ramp leading down to a lower level. The room opens up and suddenly feels much larger. At the end of the ramp, folded towels are neatly stacked on a table. Water falls down through the opposite corner.
After the shower, a stair brings her back up on the first level, where she finds herself in a triple-height corner bathing in sunlight. She exits through a corner positioned diametrically opposite the one she entered through.
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