The final result was a process of learning how to use FormZ in order to create a three-dimensional model that could be inserted into the source video from the previous exercise. I think through the process I lost the essence of establishing a datum throughout the 60 second clip. None the less, I felt the integrity of the video was strong in presenting the transition from day to night and how the intervention is received differently throughout the day.

Construction of forms for pedestrians and traffic, giving importance and creating a desire to travel the space

This is my final image for the review of Project B. My intentions have changed along the way, so I thought I’d update the proposal in the image as well.

My understanding is that project B is asking to output a composite video of our old movie and a new modeling/animation element which together propose spatial conditions. As the video suggests, Hornbake plaza presents a space of indeterminate volume (the plaza itself is rather flat and open.) Verticality is introduced through the juxtaposition of the footage from the moving elevator. The video is taken from three different perspectives: two bird’s eye view spots (one stationary, one dynamic) and an eye level spot. What ties the video together is the flow of pedestrians which creates a strong diagonal axis from the bus station area, though the plaza, and between Plants and Sciences and BioPsyc. 

Round 1 thoughts: The flat plaza seems to remain uneventful even when it is full of people, who move mostly along one axis and barely interact with the environment. A possible intervention in the site would be to introduce a series of interactive sculptures which would be dispersed throughout the plaza. The sculptures would ideally react to the flow of people (introduce variables such as density of people passing by and direction) and would change form. Perhaps the sculptures could accommodate activities like sitting, laying, or leaning so people could use them as resting spots. 

Round 2: the above proposal still lacks a vertical element: the sculptures by nature would be grounded. Meanwhile Hornbake begs for a vertical intervention to help define the space. So the second proposal would be of a wall alongside campus drive, however, closer to the plaza which would frame the plaza and provide an area to relax, eat, nap, read a book, etc. This structure is derived by abstracting the plaza as a simple flat surface which is sliced where the axis of pedestrians occurs. The resulting shape would be extruded through space depending on the movement of people. The people themselves could be treated as prismatic elements which populate the wall and shift location to mirror the flux through the plaza.

this week is an attempt to move away from the literal transformation of the interior space to the exterior.  here i am trying to create a form-z model of the spatial qualities of the interior with an animation of formation.  i’d like to create the growth|scaling of the model from the ground to the space.  as this is occuring, i want to have the camera angle of the animation to tumble to capture the interior of the model while there is a fade of the exterior video out and a blend of the interior video in.

the last post was just still pieces from formZ collaged over the buildings in photoshop.  this time i took still images from points in the animation i have created.  unfortunately i was having a little trouble with the animation and trying to make it work like i wanted.  i think im going to have to change my intentions slightly based on the limitations of the program.