The M-House

Daniel Arsham The M-House got lost found itself floating on the sea, affecting salination levels in the North Atlantic, 2004

Daniel Arsham's The M-House got lost found itself floating on the sea, affecting salination levels in the North Atlantic depicts an architecturally daring building in uncertain circumstances. It's not clear whether this dwelling perched atop an iceberg has just broken away from a larger land mass and is floating into the darkness, or wheter the iceberg has perhaps been colonized by resourceful(abd architecturally astute) inhabitants. Either way, nature threatens to over-take the colony,perhaps an outcome of our own careleness-think global warming.

Eskimos Home

The Eskimos have two different types of homes. One was the igloo. The igloo is made by cutting snow into blocks. Then they stack the blocks to make a dome.They lived in this house when ever there is snow.The second house is the tipi. This is the house they lived in when it was spring and summer. It is made by bending and putting long poles together. Then cover it with caribou and seal skins.There is a hole in the top for smoke from fires to escape.

The dimensions of the houses were both the same. The igloo is a dome shape. The tipi is also a dome, but covered in skins. The igloo ranges from quite small ( one to two people) to quite big (two to three families.) Sometimes there is a fishing hole in igloos. The igloo has two to five rooms. The tipi however, has one room and a fire pit.

The villages differ in ways. The Eskimos sometimes set their houses up along rivers.Sometimes the houses were put in a circle.The tipi could be taken down and transported by dogsled. The paintings worshipped elders and animals. Igloos were not always the same size. There were sometimes a huge tipi or igloo for dancing, celebration and sporting events.

Reconstructing and Mirage of Picturesque Landscape

Key Words:

Unseen to Seen, Picturesque Landscape, transparency, Laying, Clear to Blur, illusions, paradoxically, virtual mobility , the frame/the screen/ the skin

Central Point

The project is about approaching design in architecture through visible and invisible experiential spaces. How it composed two kind of landscape, which have own different identity, to deconstruct them and create to the new spatial landscape du to the key point, which I define. Transparency is used as a tool to bridge between virtual and actual experiences in order to draw the imagination from physical object in space to higher levels of spatial consciousness.

Key Phase

The project’s ideology of how It illustrate from unseen to seen inspire “Temple Island ” which relative this project why It draw and what It mention about Stowe Landscape Garden.

The drawing method inspire by “Julian Mehretu “because she create a substructure for her painting by covering her first layer of gesso with wireframe architectural drawing, overlapping shapes of flat color, or cluds of pigment that will guide the narrative unfolding in the layers that will follow.

The ambition of this project in the end of this master program, aim to represent that idea in the reality space, inspire the Sarah Sez’s model-making methodology is both practical and structural. How she use the physical object model compose the drawing apply into the reality space.

The strategy of this project inspire by the” Virtual Window Interactive” the way it construct the project ans relative the context of the ideology and methodology, there are many idea similar.

Summery this project, it is dealing with the space which exist between unseen to seen, Transparency is a media to communicate the idea about invisible to visible, due to inspired the ‘Temple Island” it set up two object actual and virtual as a metaphor apply into Canary Wharf as a Virtual, the other site Stowe Landscape Garden as a Actual, the aim to composed these two kind of Landscape, Artificial Landscape and Nature Landscape two constructed by the idea in the picturesque.

Dry Ice

Solid Carbon Dioxide - CO2, is used in a number of different applications. It can be used in laboratories for mechanical cooling and is commonly used to preserve and transport food. Dry ice is sometimes used to make ice cream and even removing warts. Plumbers use dry ice to freeze pipes and in the theatrical world it is used for smoke effects with a fog machine. It can be used to kill underground rodents and insects by freezing and starving animals or insects of oxygen. Mosguitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide that humans breath out so in some hot countries people holding Bar-B-Q's often place an amount of dry ice away from their party area to lead mosquitoes away from their guests. Dry ice has been use to alter cloud precipitation and is used in industrial cleaning dry blasting. It can also help car repair firms iron out dents in cars.

Temple Island

Temple Island is an island in the River Thames in England just north of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The island is on the reach above Hambleden Lock between the Buckinghamshire and Berkshire banks, and is part of Remenham in Berkshire. The main significance of the island is that it lies at the start of the course for Henley Royal Regatta.

The island includes an elegant ornamental temple (a folly) designed by the 18th century English architect James Wyatt and constructed in 1771. It was designed as a fishing lodge for Fawley Court, a nearby historic house that Wyatt also remodelled in the 1770s on the commission of its owner, Sambrooke Freeman. Wyatt designed both the structure of the building and its interior decoration; it is likely that he also provided designs for the original furniture. The wall paintings in the principal room are thought to be the earliest surviving example of the Etruscan style in Great Britain, predating more famous examples such as the Etruscan Dressing Room at Osterley Parkby Robert Adam.

In the 19th century, the island's ownership passed, with Fawley Court, from the Freeman family to the Mackenzie family. In 1952, upon the death of Roderick Mackenzie, Henley Royal Regatta asked his daughter Margaret for 'first refusal' should she ever decide to sell the island. It is not clear whether an understanding was reached. By the early 1980s, the advent of corporate entertaining greatly increased the potential value of the island. In 1983 the Stewards of the Regatta again began making overtures to Margaret Mackenzie but in 1986 the island was placed on the open market.

Supported by a gift of £515,000 from Alan Burrough (a Steward of the Regatta) and his wife Rosie, in December 1987 the Regatta was able to purchase a 999 year lease of the island and the temple. Following the purchase, the Stewards of the Regatta undertook restoration works to the island and the temple:

The downstream portion of the island was retained as a nature reserve and was extensively replanted with trees.

The Victorian balcony which had decayed was replaced. The wall paintings, which had deteriorated and had been badly over-painted, were repaired and brought back to the colours originally intended by Wyatt. A statue of a nymph, in keeping with the style and age of the Temple, was placed under the cupola.

Mirage of Landscape between Stwoe and Canary Wharf

Landscape Mirage

the drawing is about how i compose the landscape between unseen to seen from Canary Wharf to Stowe Garden