URBAN HOUSING: VOIDSCAPE APARTMENTS

GENERATION OF PRIVACY WITHIN VOIDS

Site: Jarvis Pl., Boston, Ma, 02115 inStructor: Timothy Love

Hidden in Plain Sight

Urban development is dominated by an efficiency mindset that at times compromises the privacy individuals seek when living in their residences. I sought to re-capture this desire by implementing a solid versus void design language, placing privacy at the forefront of the apartment layout design. By designing in this manner, four layers of public to private spaces are created and defined by thresholds.

ARTISTIC COMMENTARY: HEA

HUMANITY’S EFFECT ON ART claSS: Advanced Communications inStructor: Kristian Kloeckl

By analyzing the ways humans interacted with art within the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, I sought to create immersive experiences that allow us to reflect on these interactions. Not only through the eyes of other humans, but also through the eyes of the art itself. This culminated in A museum that features three exhibitions, allowing us to immerse ourselves in these concepts. Ideas of the reproducibility of art, the maintained interest in it, and the inversion of the typical perception of engagement are present.

Exhibtion 1 - Paint or Word?

The first room acts as our introduction to the concept. This exhibition comments on the reality within museums where individuals enact three different methods of engagement. The first type will walk through exhibitions and look at the art while never stopping to read the text alongside the works. The second type of person will go to a piece of art and immediately begin reading the text next to the piece on display. The third type of person will go to the artwork, but rather than moving on, will read the text to the side as well. To represent these three categories, the art and text are displayed in three different ways. The first is a photo of the art without the text to the side of it, the second is an image of the text and art but rather than the art being larger, the text is, leaning further into this category of individual. The final arrangement has the art and text alongside each other at a typical ratio. We placed the examples so that as you move further in, the text becomes the more dominant item on display. This in combination with the growing room as your move further into it gives the individual the sense of a growing understanding.

Exhibtion 2 - Reproducability

The next exhibition discusses the reproducibility of artworks. In the digital age, it is extremely easy for visitors to capture the artwork they admire to share and spread. We emphasized the idea that each reproduced digital form undermines the value of the original. This is illustrated by the exposure of the artworks. The more they were photographed by the visitors, the more the artwork “fades away”. The final result is a visual representation of how often each artwork is photographed.

Exhibtion 3 - Last in Memories

Finally, the concept of the longevity of the art. Not dissimilarly to the previous diagram, we realize that people will photograph art and sculptures in museums, but rather than limiting their viewability, their popularity is what actually allows them to remain. Here, the lower engagement artworks fade away. The workers in higher positions tend to receive less engagement due to glare on them, and thus they fade. As shown here, this causes an interesting perspective shift that puts us in the shoes of curators now. Obviously, they want to include art that will draw in people. So when noticing certain pieces are perhaps not performing as well, then maybe it is time for them to fade and be replaced. Art is directly affected by our actions, as opposed to the typical thought that the relationship works the other way.