Industrial Art Nouveau / Art Deco Inspiration

Upon looking at the industrial area of town in Parnell, i wanted to for the inspiration for my conceptual design to play on the idea of modernity, creativity and an industrial element that would give a sense of movement and design style to my light.

Artists and art works themeselves are extremely valuable ways of finding and effectively using different stylistic forms as a basis for architectural work and Shaun Tan's childrens (dark) picture book, "The Rabbits" does that. Talking metaphorically about the arrival of the rabbits "the Brittish" to Austrialia and their use of somewhat eclectic taste of modern/ancient industrial technologies and building techniques, the rabbits takeover the land of the natives through these machines.

This kind of mixture between the industrial and the new was extremely evocative to me, especially regarding the placement of the site, with the meeting place of contemporary apartment blocks and the older nature of the Old Auckland Railway station and the Old Railway Hotel across from the park, while also the idea of europeans coming in and reclaiming the land of the site from the ocean between the wharf and the rising hill slope towards Anzac Rd. This idea emphasized through the grandeur of the old buildings, the extreme importance and influence of these old beaux-arts buildings and art deco sites on the feeling of the area and a proposal for a lamp design to be created that would aid to both get influence from their styles but also create a stylistic exaggeration that would aim to reflect the type of light that comes through them. The light design should aim to reflect the timelessness but also new idea of modernity, with Tan's "The Rabbits" as an influence of this duality.

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Initial Architecture Concept

Being part of group four with Roberta and Anthony as our tutors we were given the conceptual task of thinking about our cross sections with regard to the ideas of creating or thinking about architectural space with reference to the main theme for the next two weeks, awaking.

My initial concepts wanted to explore this and i had a think about what awaking actually was. My intial concepts revolved around the ideas of patterns of light coming in through the exterior walls harking to prehistoric concepts of sleeping in wooded areas for protection with the tree canopies in the morning at the time of human awaking would create patterns of amber coloured light to stream through the green canopy.

I had the idea that because of the site being on a fairly industrial site, and a artificial one at that with human efforts to reclaim the shore line ending up with with this stretch of land that had filled in what was once the sea, i thought about the idea of some sort of deconstructivist ship that would serve as this architectural area. This idea came about with the idea of such a foreign ship object inland would raise the idea of public awaking to the artificiality of the site, it would again cause awaking in looking out for and refurbishing those old buildings in the area which have started to fall into neglect, while also i thought a shade sail like structure above would create a very cloud light feeling of overlapping whites that would create that same sort of experience when waking up to a different pattern of light in the sleeping space.

Conceptual telescope like objects have been entered for interest value offering views of focal points around the area while also playing on the idea of accelerated interest when awaking to the weather, the look of the city, events happening, where everyone is, the time, etc.