[2 plantrooms] Effects

For our plantrooms, we have decided that for our bridge-framing, a dystopian feeling will be presented and utopian for the drainage system as they reflect on each of their themes.



The draining system is very environmental as it provides a more ecological way of obtaining clear water, which also appeals to the idea of utopia from the short novel 'The ultimate city'. Garden city which is a mirror of utopia in the novel informs us that there are no cars, and everything is in the most basic form while obtaining the most from the environment that they are in. This is extremely ecological and efficient, and that is what we want co-existing in our project too. The materials used in this will probably include plaster for the base to show water flowing through the plantroom, acrylic to symbolise the glass where water will be running down from the top of the plantroom and MDF spray painted black for the walls so that the light and shadow will be more emphasised in this model.

For the bridge-type framing, it shows the limited materials that is avaliable, and this gives a kind of lost and forgotten feeling, how a lot of the materials are torn or destroyed from other buildings or monuments as described in 'The ultimate city' by G.J. Ballard. As for the platform we want to create a futuristic feeling where the amount of materials available is very limited and how transport will become very technological and mechanical, but also at the same time deserted. Just talking about the view from far away we want to create a floating sort of platform that gradually rises and a lush overgrown carpet to show the abandoned environment (no one to care and tend to these plants so they are grown all over the place). As for the material, we want to show that its is a kind of rusted metal-type feeling to it by using a special kind of metal or just painting over the MDF. We will have strings going around the frames to show tension as associated with the structure of bridges. The shadows created by the frames and strings differs between a softer shadow and a hard shadow as it varies from the height it is off the ground and would interesting to investigate.