Experimental Model 1

A mini model (mind map) for 14th May show.

Yesterday, i found this metallic bowl which can show a converse reflection.

 I want use it in my model, people can see the correct scene that i'll set up from the bowl.

The Latest Idea

The poster i made for 14th May. 

The order of Blogger need you have to  repeat what you have introduced in former articles for people who did't read before.

I  chose Battersea power station, as a site to demonstrate.

Looking at both these pictures you might be inclined to think of them as pool tables, whereas in fact the second image is the iconic Battersea Power Station flipped over 180 degrees.

I have included a real table to condition the viewers mind to the idea of a pool table. People who are not familiar with the sight of a pool table might not be as easily misled. 

If we use our imagination, although probably not intended, It is not difficult to picture it as a big table turned upside down, the four chimneys being the legs. Forming a huge fictitious space is composed of the four chimneys. Using this example, I will explore how to use the characteristic structure combined with a viewpoint which can produce an image to help people see Battersea power station in another vision.


My next step is <1>: try to do a series of anamorphosis around the whole site;
                      <2>: make a model for "BPS table";
                      <3>: do some examination for how to let people can see the converse image, like the inverted image from the back of spoon.

Walls and Warning boards

Wall,it is quite important for my project.

As Ames chair, those bi-dimensional walls might create amazing distortion art.

I recorded them for different colour, texture,material and size to help me know the surrounding better and also can be use it for my work soon after.

Warning broads, they are very formal but you can see it, they are not only beautiful but also as alive stuffs in BPS!

For example---  The first one(Left), is looks like a man who ready to go across the sky-bridge?   

Anyway....  I like it.

Let's BPS..

I walked along a half side of BPS from Chelsea bridge to Nine Elms lane.

What i want to see is those different BPS faces (Especially four chimneys) 

from each locations.It is likes a transparent box above the heavy brown base.

Here is cute example i found near the gate of BPS, though it's not that building.

The left pic is i shot from outside of wall,zoom in you can see a little black spot, which in fact is four things overlaped together: a bird(stood on)+ a sky-bridge +  sandstone + cement wall.

Ya... i think this's also kind of anamorphose.

Street lamp(1)

Street lamp(2)

Well... when i just arrived there i don't have good idea to "design" the site.

so took some photos about Street-lamp & BPS cos---

(1)They are looks like a  month mirror for dentists（odontoscope）in a vase;

(2)they are matched to be "squares".

And, a bicycle leaped BPS.. lol

This series of pics not so serious i have to say. I need do something freely to get more inspirations!!

Battersea Power Station Investigation

The significance of my project is to explore how to use a viewpoint from where I can produce an image to let people see Battersea power station in an alternative way and find its beauty. 

The site finally i chose Battersea Power Station cos :

    1,  Almost everybody know it;

    2,  Looks like a huge table (flipped over);

    3,  Four chimneys composed a fictitious space. 

                                             I found that so many people stopped their way to overlook it.

The only two "chair"for people to watch Battersea power station,such poor chair...

       I do like the four chimneys, they can help me do something about anamorphosis. For a very simple example as the picture below:    Are them in a same layer? I mean i can tell someone who never see it before that the chimneys are abreast. Just left one's base is a little bit thicker.

 

Battersea Power Station as the “earth”, other buildings, streets or any object can be a “star” could set up resonance or affiliation with the “earth”, irrespective of the distance each other.

Battersea Power Station

Pigs On The Wing, Pink Floyd album.1977

Battersea Power Station, build in the 1930s--1950s.

a now unused coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames. The station ceased generating electricity in 1983, but over the past 50 years it has become one of the best known landmarks in south of London.

History ---

Until the late 1930s electricity was supplied by municipal undertakings. These were small power companies that built power stations dedicated to a single industry or group of factories, and sold any excess electricity to the public. These companies used widely differing standards of voltage and frequency. In 1925, parliament decided that the power grid should be a single system with uniform standards under public ownership. Several of the private power companies reacted to the proposal by forming the London Power Company. They planned to heed parliament's recommendations and build a small number of very large stations.

Station was designed by a team of architects and engineers. The team was headed by Dr S. Leonard Pearce, the chief engineer of the London Power Company, but a number of other notable engineers were also involved, including Henry Newmarch Allott, and T. P. O'Sullivan who was later responsible for the Assembly Hall at Filton. Theo J. Halliday was employed as architect, with Halliday & Agate Co. employed as a sub-consultant. Halliday was responsible for the supervision and execution of the appearance of the exterior and interior of the building. 

The A Station's interior was given many art deco fittings by architect Halliday. The control room was given art deco fittings, Italian marble was used in the turbine hall, and polished parquet floors and wrought iron staircases were used throughout. Due to a lack of available money following the Second World War, the interior of the B Station was not given the same treatment, and instead the fittings were made from stainless steel.

Each of the two connected stations consist of a long boiler house with a chimney at each end and an adjacent turbine hall. This makes a single main structure which is of steel frame construction with brick cladding. This is similar to the skyscrapers which were built in the United States around the same time. The station is the largest brick built structure in Europe. 

Cultural appearances ---
The Battersea Power Station Community Group think one of the main reasons for the power station's worldwide recognition is due to it having appeared on the cover of Pink Floyd's 1977 album, Animals, where it was photographed with the group's inflatable pink pig floating above it. The photographs were taken in early December 1976 and the inflatable pig was made by the Zeppelin Airship company. The inflatable pig was tethered to one of the power station's southern chimneys, but broke loose from its moorings and, to the astonishment of pilots in approaching planes, rose into the flight path of Heathrow Airport. Police helicopters tracked its course, until it landed in Kent. Video footage of the photoshoot was used in the promotional video for the song "Pigs on the Wing". The album was officially launched at an event at the power station.
The Pink Floyd image has been parodied and paid homage to, for instance on:
The cover of The Orb's 1991 album, Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld.
The back cover of Les Claypool's Frog Brigade's 2001 album, Live Frogs Set 2, which is a full cover of Pink Floyd's Animals.
The station can also be seen on various other pieces of album artwork, including:
The booklet art for The Who's 1973 album, Quadrophenia.
The photograph on the sleeve of Hawkwind's 1977 album, Quark, Strangeness and Charm, is of the B Station's control room.
The cover of Jan Hammer's 1988 12" single of "The Runner (marathon mix)".
The back cover of Morrissey's 1990 album Bona Drag.
The background art for the cover of the 2001 Petula Clark boxed set, Meet Me in Battersea Park.
The cover of London Elektricity's 2005 album, Power Ballads. Silhouettes of the station's coal cranes were used on the cover of the group's Hanging Rock single.
A photograph on the inside case of Muse's 2009 album, The Resistance.

The Background from wikipedia.

Analyse the model

I used different colours to represent each part of the car.

The first pic shows a rough look that those parts on top view.

Left (upper right one) and right (down) view, as you can see, same colour in two cars not same part, example: Blue.

Blue part is a door panel in Left car, meanwhile, it is changed to be boot in right car. Because  the principle of distortion.

The size of the space and bidirectional-door.

Distortion in space.

Before two yrs ago, there was one fridge got a very high profile in China because the door open way, which could be opened both left and right side. 

 It's so amazing when you first time see and use it, like as it can be took down if you open two sides at a same time.

A analysis graph of open way, how the hinge works.

So, i guess people may kind of enjoy the pleasure that when you can open a door whatever which side?   

Anyway, i suppose my project could develop like this ---

There is a space, which can be change the scene inside totally if people open the door from two sides. It is like a spacial magic show.

The different areas (Red and Blue) means people can see it from two sides each. 

Sharpe: I chose the rectangle one because which is the most reasonable for distorted vision in this space.

The draft is what we can see from two points of door.

As similar principle of the Ames chair, the left wall on top space just a very narrow angle but becomes abroad as bottle draft. 

So, base on the principle, i want people can see two different scenes.

 For example, this is a garage, i will make the left view is a car parked in closed space, while, if you open the door right side, the car is gone to a open space ! 

And.. i can give a name for the work.. like " Your car was stolen"... and so on. 

Of course, the car is not a real car, they just made by many many layers of wire, which will be full of the space.

  

Sketch 1:  Left view

     Sketch 2:   Top view

Sketch 3: Right view

Sketch 4:       profile

 (Those lines are bi-dimensional net, as Ames chair.)

  

Basically, this it is. 

  I will make model to develop more, a strong n tough model.. 

Visible & Invisible

Anamorphic Man

2006

A three dimensional anomorphic projection. When viewed through the circle on the left the figure becomes whole.

Location - Private Collection, Seoul, Korea

Size - 1100mm x 450mm x 250mm

Materials - Brazed steel

Photo - John Coombes

The Anamorphic Man will be born if you look from a central viewing point (wiry hole) a figure is visible. 

'Anamorphic Man' was specially comissioned for "Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination"by The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University through Kinetica Museum. 

 

                                                                       Giant Leap

2005

A dislocated figure stretches apart as he leaps through time and space.

Location - Private Collection, Edinburgh

Dimensions - 1000 X 500 X 300 mm

Materials - Brazed mild steel

Photo - John Coombes

Anamorphic Man, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge

Atomised

2005

A leg is propelled into space stopping with a jolt, its foot still shaking. From the other side the other leg joins it in the centre. Piece by piece a figure is formed in space and suspended in time.

Location :Collection of Kinetica Museum, London. Currently exhibited at the Museum of Anthropology and Archeology, Cambridge University.

Materials - Steel, Motors, plc, sensor

Size :3000 X 2100 mm

Photo - John Coombes

Play Film of Atomised

I have to say though that those works are not so spacial, i do like the style. A simple space was make up by iron ropes. Black Lines are so vivid and persuasive, which can attract audience easily. It is like a kid game "Visible & Invisible".

The Teatro Olimpico

THE Teatro Olimpico is the last work by Palladio, and ranks amongst his highest masterworks, which was designed for the Vicenza Accademia Olimpica to stage theatrical performances.

JY,（GreatBuildings.com）described that Inside an exterior brick box, the elaborate wooden theater interior is a half circle of steep tiers of seats (wood covered benches) facing a rectangular proscenium stage. A wooden colonnade with cornice and figures above circles the top of the seats. The ceiling plane is undifferentiated and was later painted blue, suggesting an open sky above the theater.

The walls and ceiling of the proscenium are elaborately articulated with architectural details and statues, made of wood and plaster. A central arched opening dominates the back wall, flanked by two smaller doorways. Through these openings, elaborate stage sets of streets angle backstage, a triad through the central opening and single streets through each side. These sets, designed later by Scamozzi, use techniques of tilting the floors and contracting the angle between the street walls and the heights of their building facades to make foreshortened streets in perspective.

The picture above is Italy Pavilion in Expo 2010 Shanghai China.

Designer used Palladio's Teatro Olimpico( a part of gate) as the mark of Italy.

I drew a plan to explore the vision inside, which succeeding generations adopted the proscenium arch and painterly stage sets.


For me, The  innovations of the building is  starting with eliminating the rigid and unchangeable scaenae frons and the unchanging perspective views. 
As a English architect Inigo Jones visited the Teatro Olimpico shortly after its completion, and took careful notes, in which he expressed particular admiration for the perspective views: "[T]he chief artifice was that whear so ever you satt you sauw one of thes Prospects...."


OH..  it's a biiiig issue!  let me think abt it more..

Anamorphosis

THESE images were created on a pen plotter sometime in the late 70's (I don't remember the year). They are examples of anamorphic images: that is, they are distorted so that the original (undistorted) images will appear when viewed in an unusual manner. 

The images below are cylindrical anamorphic distortions. If you were to look at the reflection in a cylindrical mirror held to the circle at the top of the image, you would see the original (undistorted) image. A short length of chrome pipe from the hardware store works quite well. 

By James Arvo (arvo@cs.caltech.edu)

Firstly, the umbrella one is called conical mirror:

              

Vewed looking into the top of the cone.

                                                                                                                   Viewed from the side.

There is a mechanical device ("pantograph")

for creating this kind of anamorphosis

by tracing over an original image.

Secondly, this is another example looks simple but impress :

              

                     

   Spock , 2007, 1102 spools of thread, 

stainless-steel ball chain and hanging apparatus, clear acrylic sphere, metal stand (44.5 x 36 x 60 inches)

I feel that the former one of SPOCK series has similar principle with Ames chair, the chrome Semi-sphere as eyes reflections the view that was distorted.