[2 plantrooms]RUBBINGS OF OUR SITE [PAPER]

We had to go back down to our sites and record down the interesting textures that we thought we could use for our plantrooms as wallpaper. We had to use rubbings as a form of documentation.

This was actually a quite interesting experiment as everything affected the rubbings, from paper, weather and the type media used to record these down.

We found that using a soft tracing paper and graphite was the most effective. (after several fail ones....)

We will probably engrave this into either acrylic or MDF

[2 plantrooms]Atmosphere reseach 2 - Light, shadow, colour

Light and shadow and colour are all very main part of presentation as it can be manipulated in many ways and by using those effects, different atmospheric feelings can be gathered which then affects the final impression.

Light and shadow and colour has been chosen to become another main road for our atmospheric researches as these three cannot really leave each other as where there is light there will always be shadows, and by manipulating the relationship between colour and light, different atmospheres will also be created by the amount of light or shadows that are casted onto a certain coloured object, or by covering light with a certain colour so that it sends colour beams onto a certain object or even a person. So, it will be fun to see what kind of interesting effects I could come up with.

There are different types of lights i could work with, one man-made light which can include colour and one that is natural light which will be moving around and having just that one colour unless i make the spaces of the plant rooms placed with a colour filter.

For the natural light which will be happening during the day, will be moving around so for the plant rooms, i want to make it so that in given space that we have, light will always be there no matter what time of the day it is. Which then means that my four walls will have to all have an opening for light to seep through. I will use man-made light for the night and probably see what kind of a feeling i could get with after deciding which will be the dystopia and utopia versions.

Other than the altering of colour, i found that depending on the direction, closeness and intensity of light, either sharp light beams or soft glows.

pictures above shows the sharp glows that will be created by altering the amount of light that is allowed to come in.

cloud that is illuminated by light, soft light can be shown around the cloud. The sunset where the light is really orange/yellow gives a warm and calm feeling.

Thin slits could also create a sharp light.


These artificial lights gives off different feelings, the very left, cold and a bit scary, while the right shows a warm, lighted feeling as this seems more close to the natural sunlight we get during the day.





colours that can be created.

colour on different material

[2 plantrooms]Site Atmosphere Images. 1

[2 plantrooms]Defining Atmosphere for Ourselves

[BRIEF] 2 Plant rooms

For our first design session we had to create three spaces each exploring with different materials to create an interesting atmospheric space which we got from the site. Later on when we have a through understanding and development of these spaces, we will create 2 plant rooms with it. One on the site of Waiheke Island and one on the site of Auckland city (dystopia/utopia) . These 2 plant rooms are to be situated on the top of our two hotels which have either a dystopian or uptopian style. 


We have decided as a team to create not only a plant room that will provide an additional beauty effect for our hotel but one that also multifunctional so that we can get the most out of the given environment. So, being multifunctional while also creating a beautiful sight manipulating the effect of space would become our main ideas to work with.

City Site Images

This is my finished left city site image, inspired by dystopia in "The Ultimate City"

-Shelley

This is the right side of our part of the site and our version of Utopia of "The Ultimate City"

-Yinan

This is the imagined section of the left side.

-Alex

Utopia vs. Dystopia

What is a utopia?

A utopia is classified as an imagined place or state of things where everything is perfect.

What is a dystopia?

An imagined place in which everything is unpleasant or bad, sometimes an environmentally degraded one.

We think it is quite debatable about whether the utopia is applied to the garden city or the city. From the description of the garden city we would imagine it to be tranquil, beautiful and overall a utopian city. The city itself is a ruin, implying that this would be dystopia. However, the way the character Halloway feels about the city suggests he feels the metropolis is more utopia. We think this shows that a place cannot be classified as a utopia simply by the way it looks to everyone. We think that every individual would have a different version of their own utopia. We also discovered the fact that both of the cities had both utopian and dystopian qualities. The garden city may have appeared utopian by the description of the flowers, canals and the sophisticated “green” technology, yet the social conditions that were forced on the inhabitants of the garden city (vegetarianism, young people of different sexes living together in dormitories until married) makes us begin to question if this place really is utopia. The inhabitants freedom and free will is restricted. The city, whilst a ruin, has the freedom that the Garden City doesn’t offer. It has the ability to be who you want, and do what you want. We have agreed that in the story, The Ultimate City, there is no distinct Utopia or Dystopia