Model WITHOUT Top (Ceiling)
Model WITH Top (Ceiling)
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My sacred place is a cathedral. The inspiration is mainly from the cardboard cathedral. Normally cathedrals don’t have shapes like pyramids so I want to make a breakthrough by combining pyramids with arcs.
* Cardboard Cathedral lies in New Zealand; Knarvik Church lies in Norway
* RRA: Reiulf Ramstad Architects
The scales in my technical drawings are 1″=20′ but the scale of my actual model is 1″=10′
Side Elevation with SOLAR PANNELS
Side Elevation with SOLAR PANNELS
The two pyramids can be separated apart so you can see the interior of the cathedral. This photo depicts the inside look without the bigger pyramid. The inside of the cathedral are mainly benches and a stage.
The human figures are 6′ tall in real life. Such contrasts show how tall the architecture actually is. This photo was taken without the bigger pyramid.
Dear Climate,
Stop Changing!
But still, I know it is not your fault but our human beings’.
It is because of our own desires that had made you suffered.
All we had seen for the past centuries were development.
We chased for economy development, so we built up factories to promote industrialization; we drove away animals to have more lands for skyscrapers; we expanded cities and polluted air.
We craved for supplements development, so we cut down trees for woods; we blasted earth for ores and minerals; we split off oceans for oils.
We sought for efficiency development, so we invented cars; we ran over mountains for more highways; we overused power and energy to accelerate.
And now, all the damages we had caused eventually came back to us. We finally started to realize how awfully wrong we had been.
Thus, dear climate, we human beings are now trying to make up all the ruins we had done. I know we haven’t done well enough yet, but this is a long-term process and I promise we can make it better and better.
With Regret and Respect,
Xingman
STEP 1: We followed the instruction and measured one gallon of water, boiled it to kill the bacteria.
STEP 2: After the water was boiled, we cleaned the container and poured the water in it.
STEP 3 : We added sugar and tea bags
STEP 4: We stirred it to mix better
STEP 5: Cap closed
We then placed the container and waited for days to add in the SCOBY. However, days after we found the water started to get really moldy. It was because the temperature was not warm enough, so we poured it out and redid it. We followed the exact same procedure and paid attention to the temperature. Luckily this time it didn’t get moldy so we added the SCOBY two days after. Right now we are still waiting for it to grow.
ONE DECADE LATER…….
Our leathers were finally in shapes! So we placed them carefully and wait till they dry.
ONE CENTURY LATER……
FINAL PIECES!!
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Throughout this inquiry practice, I found that there are two major biases in my observations. One is color matching and the other is structure.
Wandering through the new school, the first thing I noticed that stood out particularly was how white most the spaces are. It’s obvious that white is the absolute majority color. Thus I have a set of pictures that depict how different kinds of whites match with each other, and another set of photos that show how red, another major color in the new school, matches with white.
Except the color matching, structures also caught my eyes. I found the “three-ways” composition and clockwise winding staircases very fascinating. Moreover, the fact that how long and narrow many stairways are is also interesting.
Like what it was said in McCarter’s book, “The only appropriate way to evaluate architecture is through our experience of it”. I do feel like knowing more than ever about the space I am in every day after experiencing it by myself.
General Process Diagram
2. Foot binding gave so much damage to their feet that they could barely walk in the outside world but stay at home and do house works. These women’s lives were very much controlled by their husbands and were more like belongings to them.
3. The very first thumbnails draft that I made for the shoes. The main idea of the project is Female Restriction, combining with pain and torture.
4. I first used wires to construct the main frame of the shoes. At first I was planning on using both wires and needles but then had to give up needles because they were very hard to be accurately placed.
5. I cut and painted cardboards to make the bottoms of the shoes. The bottoms were not in the original plan but later got added in in order to amplify the exaggeration.
6. I attached the bottoms with the shoes together with some special black threads. The shoes are sizes smaller than my partner’s actual shoe size deliberately so that she could feel the intensity and pain more clearly.
7. Final Work