17 September, 2007

MACBA, MERCAT, FISH/VIDEO

MACBA
Richard Meier, designer of the Museu d’art de Barcelona, was an influential architect known for his use of the color white. White heightens visual form to create intense contrasts of shadow
and light; it is the combination of all the colors of the visible light spectrum. As a tint, white
has the highest possible brightness, one hundred percent, and has no hue. The impression
of white light can be created by mixing appropriate intensities of the primary colors of
light: red, yellow and blue.
Although Richard Meier’s building is all white, it allows color to reflect off it when natural light is eliminated and chemical light is reflected on it, as
shown in the series of photos on the bottom left.
This is the process I took when analyzing this building. Instead of viewing the building in its natural color state of white, I used the three primary colors and sketched the building. This created a completely different perspective which allowed the different geometric shapes to converge and become more dynamic. Interestingly, when the colors were mixed they created black, which is also an achromatic color, but highly different then white. This project allowed me to physically see the difference between colors of light and colors on paper and also allowed me to experiment with a different medium.

MERCAT de SANTA CATERINA
The bottom building is the Igualada Cemetery built buy Enric Miralles and his first wife Carme Pinos. Like the Mercat de Santa Caterina, this Cemetery was designed to replace and existing place, the Cemetery Vell.
This building had many contingencies, mostly becasue it would be such a sacred place. The couple wanted the represent the cycle of life, linking the past, present and future. This picee transformed its surrounding aread, bringing new life.
Although they were bult at different times and with different wived,The Igualada Cemetery has many simialarities to the Mercat de Santa Caterina.

The Mercat de Santa Caterina was also built buy Miralles, but in conjunction with his second wife, Benedetta Tagliabue.
This site was not originally a market, it was a garden. The two quickly started working the the reconstruction of this building, when they ran into a little problem. In the building process, the construction worker dug up son old ruins which halted building until preservation codes could be discussed.
Like respecting the dead in the Igualada Cemetery, they had to respect the ruins found. Both structures contain floors below, this is where you can see some of the ruins in the Mercat.

SKETCHES AT GEHRY FISH
These sketches represent the path I took to the site where Gehry’s fish was. The lower sketch it the walkway to the North end of the beach. The following sketches, reading from left to right, area basic chronology of the sketches I did while filming the site. They are quick details of the full picture on the top right.



Well this is an interesting story; I filmed this video with an actual video camera, however, the file that it holds is not compatible with any form of video editing software. So, what i did was play it on my computer and then film it on my camera. This will explain the poor quality of the video.

Anyway, the point of this video was to capture the surroundings of the north end of the beach in a panoramic system at different times of the day. The video progresses through and past sunset. As the video plays, I zoomed in on different aspects to see how they were changing as the light changed. My favorite part was when the sky got darker and the beach was illuminated by lights that made the buildings and street glow.

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