GEMOSEUMB MUSEUM OF EMOTION ARC 385 INDEPENDENT STUDY WINTER 2021
Design and Presentation
BRIAN COLE and GILBERT C. MOORE
POSITIVE EMOTION
GIDDINESS causing dizziness, joyfully elated
NEGATIVE EMOTION
NOSTALGIA pleasure and sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you could experience it again the state of being homesick
GIDDY
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
GIDDY FUN
PLAYFUL COLORFUL YET DISOREINTING
INITIAL THOUGHTS AND DIAGRAMS
AREA OF CHOSEN FOCUS
TOWERS BUILT OF STACKED TRANSLUCENT BUBBLES – ALLOWING LIGHT TO PENETRATE AND REFRACT WITHIN.
EVOLUTION FROM TYPICAL PEG SUPPORT STRUCTURES TO A COUNTERBALANCE CANTIVLEVER SHAPE
A SERIES OF HIGH DENSITY PLASTIC BUBBLE TORUS SHAPES COMPOSED OF SECTIONS WITH INTERLOCKING SEAMS. THEN LIFTED INTO POSITION AND JOINED TO THE RING BELOW WITH AN INTERLOCKING COLLAR.
NOSTALGIA
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
THIS GAVE THE BUILDING IT’S SYMMETRICAL SHAPE, LOPSIDED BY A MELTING INSPIRATION DRAWN BY IMAGERY DEPICTED BY THE LIKES OF DALI– WHICH SAW TIME AND MEMORY AS SOMETHING DISTORTED AND MELTING OVER TIME, AS IT BECOMES HARDER TO REMEMBER AND THEREFORE MORE UNRECOGNIZABLE AS TIME GOES ON.
MATERIAL CONSIDERATIONS INCLUDE BLUE MARBLE (TRAPPED BLUE FLOWING FORMS RECALLS WATER, WHICH WOULD BE FLOWING THROUGH THE RIVER IF NOT FROZEN IN THIS BLOCK OF TIME) AND HIGHLY REFLECTIVE MIRROR-LIKE SURFACES THAT BOTH ALLOW THE FLOW OF VISION TO PASS THROUGH (FORWARD IN TIME, ALONG A PATH) AND REFLECT BACKWARDS (AS ONE DOES ON THE PAST AND HISTORY).
AN APPROACH THAT HINGED ON NOSTALGIA’S PORTRAYAL IN ARTS AND SCIENCES LIKE POETRY, PAINTINGS, AND PSYCHOLOGY
VARYING LEVELS OF TRANSPARENCY, CREATES ILLUSION OF HAZINESS AND LOSS
RISING FRAMES REMOVE ACCESS OF ISOLATED “MEMORY” FROM TANGIBLE CONTACT
REST SOLUTION, RECALLS IMAGERY FROM POSITIVEEMOTION “GIDDY” AND OCCURS THROUGHOUT SOCIAL HUB AREAS
HIGHLY REFLECTIVE SURFACE COMMENTS ON DYNAMIC FLOW OF TIME (IN THEACT OF REMEMBERANCE) AS MOVING FORWARD YET REFLECTING ON PAST CONDITIONS
NORTH VIEW
EAST VIEW
TOP VIEW VIEW OF HUB/PORT AREA
GEMOSEUMB (GEE – MO – ZEE – UM)
OUR MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS EMBODIES TWO EMOTIONS, ONE POSITIVE AND ONE NEGATIVE, IN THE HOPES TO SPAN THE VAST RANGE OF RESPONSES RIGHTFULLY EVOKED WHEN VIEWING OR EXPLORING THE RICH AND COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE LA RIVER.
GIDDY A KALEIDOSCOPIC OBELISK RISING PILLAR OF GLASS ORBS AND SEMISPHERES ATOP A FLOATING STONE ENTRYWAY
NOSTALGIA REMEMBERING SOMETHING THAT ISN’T PRESENT ANYMORE TIME AND MEMORY AS SOMETHING DISTORTED AND MELTING
SECTIONS
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