Lifts Within UTenvironment

Madonna's Lift



Obama's Lift

H Shape Two Point

F Perspective

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Final Design

Consisting of 6 separate sloping surfaces the ramp provides a staggered and shadowless pathway from the centrally located meeting space to Cousteau's laboratory.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's space is constructed on his quote describing the weight of gravity where man can escape from this by submerging himself and sinking beneath the surface and find freedom. the thick concrete structure is representative of this idea where the location of the above structure adds weight to the building and the downward stepping of each component allows the traveller to reach the ramp and 'freedom' form the space.
The exterior laboratory consist of 2 rooms with vastly different atmosphere's. The first room is the reception space where the open doorway and horizontal window slits allow the eye to travel back out towards the rest of the structure and light sources. More importantly the subtraction of the ceiling structure allows light to fall directly down onto the work platform and feature wall.
The second room is very open in comparison and the rising ramp allows the eye to advance vertically towards the completely open roof where in comparison the location of the room provides a darker and more secluded ambiance.
The Interior space is based upon Nobel's quote regarding his theory of having may ideas where if a singular idea is successful then he is satified. The ceiling and its physical texture is symbolic of his many ideas.

36 Textures

Axonometric Combinations

Cave of Plato

The black box:
The image observed can be dissected into three major components; the exterior (three figures at the end of the tunnel), the shadow and the light of the interior space. This relates to my unreal tournament experiment especially in the case of Alfred Bernhard Nobel's interior space where the many figures can be seen as metaphors for his many ideas where the prisoners are representative of his failed and the priests being his accomplished and successful ideas.
This has assisted in the development of my project where i have adopted only one entry/exit from the interior space and looked into the interplay of light and shadow in the spaces both interior and exterior.