Project 2 - Room and Narrative

Project 2- Room and Narrative


A Painter in His Studio by Jan Miense Molenaer, Berlin, Gemaldegalerie.

The image above shows the painter himself, depicts the unusual moment of a pause in the painter's activities as his group of models seem to take a break from posing- they cleverly reappear on the unfurnished canvas tied to a stretcher on the easel at the right. The artist whom Molenaer depicts at the actual author of the unfinished painting stands at a workbench at the far left, preparing to add new paint with a knife to his palette. He chuckles at the dwarf- a frequent, droll inhabitant of Molenaer's paintings who dances with a dog to the accompaniment of a hurdy-gurdy played by the old man in the background.

My Narrative : A witty painter illustrated his models' gesture on a canvas in his art studio.

What has inspired me was the models' gesture. The painter depicted the activities, actions and motions as well. Each of every gesture has different characteristics like standing, dancing, talking and etc, but to create a complete and interrelate scene. My idea towards this project was to form movements within spaces and forms.

My initial design concept

By looking at the plan, there's a passageway will lead you directly to one of the rooms. One would prepare to experience, see and to utilize the rooms. There are 3 main points that I've made to form movements within these rooms:

1. Circulation space - a person able to move from one level to another level by using the staircase

2. Forms being rotated - The disposition of square forms been rotated to create different edges/corners of a room.

3. Optical rotation - When one's revolves around the rooms, he able to perceive a change of angle as walking up and down from one room to another room.

Windows

1st level - Using opaque glass and photochromic windows to allow partially lights into the room.
(photochromic windows respond to changes in light much like sunglasses that darken when you move from a dim light to a bright one)

2nd level- A translucent glass allows half of the light into the room.

3rd level- Two openings of both sides. Nature light pours in from both sides and top to give a heavenly illumination.

For the shape of plan, I exerted from the art easel and projected into abstract gesture on the top level.