2007.3.23


The condo tower acting as a gnomon, the condo becomes the shadow maker. Creating day and night conditions within the museum. In the Roman city layout, Cardus Maximus is the main axis street that runs from Noth-South. Named after Cardea, the Cardus Maximus was the hinge of the city.

Beneath the gnomon is the main circulation street for the museum. The two walls creating the street, host essential services within the walls. The street is the spine of the museum, also a hinge that connects the two gallery wings, a place where people group and where people orient themselves.

The street is where the act of arrival, departure and adventure begins. Platonic shapes are spread along the street, these shapes would host info desks, ticket booth, audio visuals. These platonic shapes also act as a beacon for the visitors to reference their locations.

Habitant and visitors of the gnomon will enter from the private entrance from the south of the street.
Lobby of the gnomon is hovering in mid air of the street.

Through the process of making of the massing model, the condo is beginning to resolve itself. Each floor of the condo will have 4 units; these units will stretch across the spine of the museum. From the massing model, the condo tower still seems too wide; the condo tower should be slim and translucent. Since the condos are piggy backing on the spine of the museum, the roof no longer has to be a flat plane.

Tomorrow, the east wing must be completed. Begin to resolve circulation and core issues for the condo + museum, public + private interior and exterior spaces, space underneath the museum wings.

Chrystal Cathedral in Garden Grove

The Crystal Cathedral is a Christian megachurch in the city of Garden Grove, in Orange County, California. The center was founded in 1979 by Rev. Dr. Robert H. Schuller and his wife, Arvella on the campus of what was known until that time as Garden Grove Community Church. One of the church's mission statements is, "Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it." World-famous architect Philip Johnson designed the main sanctuary building, which was constructed using over 10,000 rectangular panes of glass. The church is also known for its 280 rank, five manual pipe organ constructed by Fratelli Ruffatti. The instrument incorporates the large Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ built in 1962 for New York's Avery Fisher Hall.

The Crystal Cathedral broadcasts its church services around the world on a television show called The Hour of Power and the provides facilities for those of a similar faith to congregate. The campus services include support groups, Sunday school classes and daily Christian gatherings.

Museum of Jurassic Technology

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is a museum located at 9341 Venice Boulevard, in the Palms district of Los Angeles, California, USA. The museum claims to have a "specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities." This explains the museum's name and also suggests its puzzling nature, since the Lower Jurassic ended over 150 million years before the appearance of hominoids and in particular before anything that could be called technology .

Its catalog includes a mixture of artistic, scientific exhibits that evokes the cabinets of curiosities that were the 18th century predecessors of modern natural history museums. The museum was the subject of a book by Lawrence Weschler in 1995 entitled Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, and the museum's founder David Hildebrand Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 2003. The museum claims to attract around 6,000 visitors per year. In 2004, a 35-minute documentary about the museum was produced entitled Inhaling the Spore.

The museum maintains a number of permanent exhibits including:

• An exhibit on household myths of years past (for example, if a child holds a dying creature in his or her hands, that person will develop a tremor in their hands as an adult).
• A collection devoted to trailer park culture, entitled "Garden of Eden On Wheels".
• A collection of micro-miniature sculptures and paintings, such as a sculpture of Pope John Paul II carved from a single human hair and placed within the eye of a needle.
• Microscopic collages depicting flowers and other objects, made entirely from individual butterfly wing scales.
• A collection of stereographic photographs.
• A small room dedicated to unusual letters and theories received by the Mount Wilson Observatory circa 1915–1935.

Door Testing - Lock Unit and Door Closer .

Frame fits nicely, the opening for the lock unit requires minor adjustment. The skeleton of the door is 75% complete. Tomorrow I will have to drill the holes for the door closer unit, file down the oepening, prepare the panels that will sit in the openings.

sample imgs from poster

I have taken the images that I have gathered during my research of my artist, architectural element and material and created the above collages.

Po,

Your comfort with a new craft is admirable.

I took a closer look at the door sketch. Just remember to let it be loose (not luce).

The idea of the SALT Lab is experimentation; not categorization.

I like the freedom of what you were working on when I was there.

Try not to compartmentalize the composition too much in order to leave to door ‘free’ to suggest the content of the room.

Good luck.

jennifer luce

Door Sketch

Welding

Today, Mark gave me an introduction to welding. The first few pictures are taken when I was practicing welding. When I was more confortable with my welding, I welded the door. I installed the door and it fits quiet well, the top right of the door requires a minor adjustment. Tomorrow I will begin to construct the housing for the lock unit, and begin to divide my frames into panels.

After Rembrandt's death an inventory of the artist's work listed it as a portrait of an alchemist. In the early eighteenth century it was thought to portray Johann Faust, a sixteenth-century magician who, according to legend, sold his soul to the devil.

Painting

"Alchemy is the old science of struggling with Materials,
and not quite understanding what is happening."

(Elkins, What Painting Is)

Alchemist -Adrian Jansz van Ostade's 1661

"The Alchemist in Search of the Philosophers Stone"

Joseph Wright's (1771)

Alchemical symbol

Alchemical element salt, one of the three alchemical principals, with sulfur and mercury that makes up base material.
It is analogous to the human body.

Alchemical element Sulfur, which is analogous (similar) to the human soul.
Alchemically, sulfur has the qualities of masculine, hot and dry- combined with Mercury (feminine, cool and moist), the pair were considered the parents of all metals.

Alchemical drawings often portray Sulfur as the sun. (In some views, sulfur and salt are the parents of Mercury) The symbol of sulfur is often used as an identifying symbol by many Satanists. This glyph is often referred to incorrectly as the "pontifical cross of Satan" by tract writers, due to its adoption as an emblem of Satanism by Anton LeVey.

Mercury represented the integrative force, dynamic equilibrium, and circulation.
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Todd Helmenstine

Copper Alchemy Symbol

Locksmith to the rescue

Locksmith
Thanks to the locksmith I finally understood how the intricate lock works.Now, I know the dimensions and exact position to place the locking unit and drill in the proper holes. Tomorrow I can weld the frame together and begin to construct the skeleton for the panels.

Negative

Stomp - Copper

Robert Rauschenberg have transferred images on to a sheet of copper, however these images were flat and only existed on the 2 dimensional surfaces. A door is something that requires touch, it is a dynamic experience that requires one to reach out, to feel and interact.

Above pictures are the results of placing objects beneath the copper panel and transferring the form and shape directly to the surface of the panel by stomping. This technique allows me to transfer 3 dimensional objects on to the surface of the panel and embed the form of the object into the copper. When I flipped the panel, I was amazed by the beautiful marks that were imprinted on the back side of the copper panel. I have captured the positive and negative’s of the objects that was once beneath the copper panel.

Testing 1

The Moment of Truth.

I have removed the very heavy metal door, so I could check if the member I made is drilled and tapped at the correct location for the hinges. The result was amazing, the hinge location were correct and precise. The biggest challenge was to reinstall the original steel door back on to the hinges. The door was extremely heavy and was impossible to hold up and line up with the hinges. There were boxes of old novels, I took two books and used it to jack the door up to the proper height. It took few tries to find the correct amount of pages that’s equivalent level the door with the hinges. So the door hinge locations are no longer an issue, the next challenge is finding the correct location and understanding how to remove and install the locking unit.

Process of exposing " Blueprint Paper "

Robert Rauschenberg painting with light. His blueprints are early evidence of his desire to portray the beauty of natural forms and beings.

Photography is a process of finding and seeing an image and capturing it quickly.

Rauschenberg's blueprints progresses slowly in time, the objects to make up the image are placed directly on to the photosensitive paper. One has to imagine the composite result of the process because only faint images in reverse will appear in the ligh-exposed area.

Alfa battery is suitable for residential bathroom- and toilet doors. The handle indicates the bathroom is occupied with a red light on the outside of the door when the thumb turn is activated. When the bathroom is vacant the handle signals no light.

Tanaka Auto Door

Cleanliness, efficiency, compactness.
This new design entails strips equipped with infrared sensors that open to the approximate shape of the person or object passing through, minimizing entry of dust, pollen, and bugs while keeping precious air-conditioning in.

Video - Door Demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv2JfoLyU80&mode=related&search=

Casting

Casting is a manufacturing process by which a molten material such as metal or plastic is introduced into a mold, allowed to solidify within the mold, and then ejected or broken out to make a fabricated part. Casting is used for making parts of complex shape that would be difficult or uneconomical to make by other methods (such as cutting from solid material).