To speculate something is to observe it from different points of view, to fully experience a place and its surroundings. That’s something over the years that I’ve really tried living by more and more. I like to know the texture of something, the smell, using all of my senses and sometimes even the so called “seventh” sense. “The ultimate aim of all visual art is the complete building.... together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.” (Roth 523)
I believe to speculate this view from above is quite nice.
COMPOSE
Compose a word that literally applies to so many scenarios... music, art, architecture, literature, really a ton of different topics. When used in the design sense, compose to me means the way in which a drawing/drafting is laid out. It’s the way in which you lay out your different drawings and use them in a very nice manner. I definitely think that composition is very, very vital to anything in particular.
ENERGIZE
Radiate is a word I believe that goes hand-in-hand with energize, because energizing a structure radiates its whole entirety. “There were, however, other architects in the 1910s and 1920s who believed, conversely, that architecture is much more than a utilitarian appliance -- that can and should be primarily a vehicle for evoking emotional, even mystical states of experience achievable in no other way.” (Roth 535) I believe these designers in this time period were there to energize the style and make it more a personal experience rather than having a lack of life present within.
SHAPE
Shape, wow! What to say for shape, we all know what shaped is and we all have our different idea’s about how shape affects our daily life. But it doesn’t matter what you believe in because no matter what shape does affect our everyday life, constantly. It’s a space, a boundary for our limits so we where we are allowed and not allowed at least without putting fourth the effort to pass through a portal into another space. A quote I found actually at the beginning of this class I liked very much was the supposed quote by Winston Churchill that states, “We shape our buildings, and then our buildings shape us.”
I definitely believe the HSB Turning Torso presents its shape in a profound, unique way.
STRETCH
Distortion is needed to allow for a stretch, it’s like taking something that is in proportion and extending it slightly to accommodate to your likings. You can stretch something, pull it, shrink it, do many different types of translations to further learn from the drawing. This is kind of the opposite of what they were doing in the modern era, in some sense they weren’t stretching the structure over a span of land, they were stretching them heavenward to take up less space but to in fact make a bold, proud statement about its design.
I like to think that my original paper model I made as compared to my new improved balsa wood one was a stretch on my idea.
REFLECTION
So I began my model this week, and so far it’s coming along good but I am definitely having some trouble because I’ve never made a model but I am going to be very happy if it turns out good! And me and Phillip are possibly considering getting a apartment together at the new Spring Place Apartments which I would highly like considering driving here is old already only in this short semester I’ve been here. I also am ready for a vacation, to travel somewhere exciting and new. NOT MUCH LONGER LEFT!
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