Montage-It! Week 1 Class

Model

The concept behind the Montage-It! module is to combine a range of media to create a complete image that communicates ideas and concepts about a building. 

Our first step was to create a model, drawing from one of three artworks given. My chosen inspiration was Eduardo Chillida's 'Mount Tindaya', shown below:

In my initial stages of brainstorming came to:

• the solid nature of light
• monolithic
• light and scale
• light's adaptability
• transparency
• volume
• depth

Initial ideas

As a result, I wanted to try to create a donut-shaped space, with a bright light from the middle space shining out throughout the building. The building would comprise of many different rooms or spaces, that you moved through in a designed sequence that explores light at its brightest with shadows as the focus, to a space with almost no light where the light that was present was the focus.

After some more revision of the model, I decided to create a space that utilises these concepts, rather than showing them like an exhibition.
The main concepts I drew on were transparency and scale. As well as that, I wanted light to have a different purpose to just providing light. 

High angle view

Perspective view

My model is set on a thick cardboard base, and is made of balsa, butchers paper, a plastic bowl, mirror squares and a transparent jelly cup.
The building itself is actually quite large, about 5 times the height of a person, and the comparatively narrow entrance is designed to accentuate that. The translucency of the walls open up the building to its surrounding in a suggestive nature, but still keep an air of mystery about what it contains. This is particularly effective in night shots:

Night- perspective

Night- high angle

The light in the night shots isn't too bright or far-reaching as to draw a lot of attention, however it is mellow enough to have a slight character. It is created by placing a light at the hole in the base, where the jelly cup and mirrors distribute it in varying ways.

The jelly cup surface catches the light, so that the light isn't too bright, and the overall diversity in light gives the space a better dynamic. This variety allows for the space to be used in different ways, as this model is just a base for future addition of information through montaging.