Montage-it Workshop 3 Final Submission

Final Submission:

The process of montaging was an invaluable one which taught me techniques which involved coming up with concepts and also developing them through a series of montages.

The concepts which I had interpreted from Eduardo Chillada's artwork 'Aldikatu II' I felt were successfully represented in the final montages.

The concepts which I developed on were

• light and dark
• interior and exterior spaces
• juxtaposition of ideas

- Montages:

Atmospheric Montage

Site Montage

Attention to detail was essential in creating realistic images of hypothetical spaces. By playing with light and shadow and realistic textures, offset by chimerical colours, my montages exhibited a fantastical but believable interpretation of how my model could occupy a space.

- Flipbook:

The flipbook I felt was a quick and simple tool for communicating the conversation between the internal spaces and external spaces. As you flick through each shot, the continuity helps to guide you smoothly through the model and creates an illusion that you are actually going through a realistic space. This sense of connection between the flipbook and the observer works on different layers and levels as this is the experience which a visitor would have with the building. 

I arranged the edges of the cards at an angle to enable the flipbook to be flipped at ease.

Montage-it Poster:

The use of different mediums such as a 3D model, of different site contexts places emphasis on different aspects of architectural ideas. My poster juxtaposes the raw original states of my concept model, blank without context or scale, with the finished montage which playfully and realistically shows the inter-relationship between the building and the environment.

Montage-it Workshop 3 Week 3

Reworked Montages:
- Atmospheric:

 Using an existing atmospheric image, I reworked it to my needs. I emphasised the colours in the sky which I felt would be effective in juxtaposing with the monotone colour of my model. By using a rainbow palette, I further accentuated the whimsical and fantastical aspects of this environment.

I chose to use an internal shot to pronounce the vast dimension of the internal spaces. The external space is heavilly accented by the extreme extended shot of the mountanous terrain.

The final product:

I converted the ceiling and right wall into glass and created a reflective effect to add realism. Also, the addition of  shadows add a realistic element and depth to the picture. I chose a stony texture for the left wall and floor, complimenting the ancient and  archaic mountain seen through the glass in the distance.

I also used furniture in the internal shot to help convey the fact that it was a living space. 

The individual elements such as the added texture in the walls and furniture helps to convey an extremely atmospheric picture.

- Site Montage:

Following the park site shot from the previous week, I felt that the final shot works extremely well in integrating the model in a realistic manner, through the use of shadows of the building on the ground and also the shadows of tree branches on the model.

Perhaps a human scale would have provided the picture with more context, however, I felt that leaving the montage uncluttered better conveyed the subtle but jarring juxtaposition between the artificial feel of a human manufactured  model and the natural context of the park with its organic colours.

Flipbook:

I reworked and improved on the previous attempt at constructing a flipbook through adding colour to increase continuity through the flipbook. 

Colour and pattern also acts as a motif throughout the flipbook:

The oragami paper acts as a lead, luring the eye in with the various use of colours (red, orange, yellow, blue, green) leading the observer through the journey into the model.

The layering of information on the flipbook acts both on a physical level and a conceptual level. The use of the oragami paper alludes to the flipbook being 'paper' art.

Montage-it Workshop 3 Week 2

Atmospheric Montages:

I attempted to use atmospheric photos which I had taken myself to montage my model onto. However, through experimentation of using different scales and different environmental contexts, I learnt that a different approach and picture would better convey my concepts of opposites and 'external vs internal' spaces.

Site Montage:

I took pictures of a nearby park and montaged my model onto it. This did not lead to a very polished result, so I realise perhaps a cleaner park and more layering would produce a more realistic shot. However, I am pleased with the position of the model; it is in line with a pathway which adds the realistic context that the building is approachable and used everyday in a normal context. 

Flipbook: (a journey through the model)

Using a series of 15 shots to illustrate a journey through the model was difficult as every frame required a slightly different perspective yet had to be related to both the shot immediately before and after it. Even though the task was challenging I feel that at this stage I have accomplished a working flipbook which is continuous and which will work well upon more layering and use of colour.

A problem I recognised is the lack of a distinct reference point from one slide to the other as the drawings are in black and white.

Montage-it Workshop 3 Week 1

Montage-it Introduction:

This workshop is less related to the first two workshops, but is equally as important and its process equally and invaluable in learning different types of communications. The lesson learnt in this module is less to do with the representing techniques for architectural concepts and more to do with developing and reinventing the concept itself, an important lesson and idea which the first two workshops introduced to me about. 

Using Eduardo Chillada's artwork 'Aldikatu II' I imagined and developed the following concepts:

• light and dark
• use of angles
• interior and exterior spaces
• juxtaposition of ideas
• conversation (relationship) between ideas

Aldikatu II

Construction of a concept model:

Using the keywords (above) I constructed a concept model out of balsa wood.

I constructed the model with the use of different angles in mind. The lightness in the colour of balsa juxtaposes against the dark shadows which the different angles cast and compliment the grain of the wood.

The slits and openings questions the definition of internal and external spaces.