Saturday, September 8, 2007

workshop: Light & shadow

Take one of our containers, with dimensions below, that contains a void space. (for the exercise we thicken the walls to exaggerate)
each student will choreograph the movement of light across the interior space during one day of the year (june 21st). The top and two of the surfaces may be cut in order to transmit light; the other surfaces are to receive that light/shadow. Consider the light in terms of slots, pools, bands, etc.
You are to proceed by constructing virtual models which describe different episodes. Program three (3) different narratives for the movement of light across a space. One narrative should address light movement on a vertical surface, one on a vertical and a horizontal surface, and one on a horizontal surface. Develop strategies how the surfaces need to be cut in order to create a pattern of light.

Precedents:
Dan Flavin (artist), Light installations at Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA
Toyo Ito: Serpentine Gallery, London, GB, 2002; Brugge Pavillion, Belgium, 2002
Le Corbusier, Chapel at Ronchamp, France, 1959
Steven Holl, Planar House, Arizona, USA, 2005
Peter Zumthor, Thermal SPA, Vals, Switzerland, 1996
Tadao Ando, The church of the light, Osaka, Japan, 1989
Louis Kahn, The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 1972
Renzo Piano, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA 1987


External dimensions: L 7m W 3.7m H 3.7m
Internal dimensions: L 5.8m W 2.5m H 2.5m
For the purposes of this exercise, you are to use the longitude and latitude of Berlin, Germany. >locate your volume in an effective way relative to the north arrow.

a.)Visualize each narrative strategy with diagrammatic means.
b)All three episodes need to be presented with short quicktime clips, with sufficient length to understand the ideas.

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