a way to see the world

The project, which has been presented to us by Professor Luis E. Carranza Phd., Roger Williams University, is an architectural investigation. This is an investigation into making people, rather, us think of our surroundings. An architecture which wakes us from our blase attitude to force us to realise we have been asleep. Only on the rare occasion do we recall how it is we came to be in the very room we now sit. This is an attempt to wake a campus from such a slumber.

This investigation begins with art in the form of a Juan Gris painting.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

more thought...

I left off last time on my thought with the idea of visual escape. I feel though I need to put a definition to tangible and intangible (and, yes, as complex as it may seem at first I have figured out this spell check thing...). I have defined, for myself, tangible as this; horizontal and vertical lines or planes and their intersections, as well as, nature and all the laws of physics which bind them. Obviously intangible is the antitheses of tangible. An example: say you have a mass 20 feet above your head, the span is, say, 60 feet. What you would expect to find is columns holding it up. A weight supported by something; the laws of physics are satisfied. What if those columns were taken out? Perhaps this mass is cantilevered, we don't know. All we know is that we should be, at the moment, less than an inch thick. We can not readily discern what is holding up the mass. Intangibility, the laws of physics are not readily satisfied.

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