Digital Representations: September 2008

Monday, September 29, 2008

assesment 3 - silkeborg philosophy

(own render)

Utzon's concept for the silkeborg, though aesthetic in its sculptural form, seems in my opinion to be lacking in efficiancy and practicality of function. In some instances, this compromise is accepted, however I don't believe such a compromise to be necessary here and is something i intend to improve in my own interpretation. The other main concept that is striking in Utzon's concept is the amount of space invisible from the land. the subterranean surprise is a component i will choose to retain. These are various images that in some way or another reflect the original concept of Jorn Utzon's museum of fine arts.

http://www.arcspace.com/

davidbutterwortharch1390.blogspot.com

my own render

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=LsO2QLZ9Sug

http://networkinstruments.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/tree_roots1.jpg

ondoncoder.files.wordpress.com/.../iceberg.jpg

Assignment 3 - Silkeborg collage

This is a collage i have made in photoshop of a few of Utzon's sections. I uploaded the first version, an earlier draft, to show how the seperate sections form one image in the second collage. The second collage would clearly be fairly deceptive in presenting the true form of Utzon's structure if seen as an independant entity, especially if the observer had no prior exposure to the sections.

http://danielletaoukarch1392-2008.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/utzon/silkeborg.htm

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Interesting bit of text

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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Yeats, William Butler. Michael Robartes and theDancer. Chruchtown, Dundrum, Ireland: The ChualaPress, 1920. http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html

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Below is just something i wrote that reflects the shipwreck at Disaster Bay even after the light house was built, the SS Ly-ee-moon sunk in May 1886, 71 were lost to the sea. the keepers able to save only 15

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Finally the day breaks,

and the shards peirce glass to glass

Finally the night takes

with conversations heart to heart

For this summer sang a sadder song

but soon it too shall pass

with but one light to brave the dark

its will would never last

71 and 15

carved black upon our whitestone

later prays tomorrow

rise gold as flags are flown

and on the waves ride those who saw

the darker parts of depth

and in regret drowned eyes and breath

drink silence what is left

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The Green Cape Lighthouse: The Talking

Firstly of all i would like to state the reason of my choosing this lighthouse is that I have always appreciated the beauty fused with resiliance demonstrated in lighthouses. I have gathered a considerable amount of information on The green cape lighthouse and could divulge indigestible amounts of information here and now. However, i too have been a victim large bodies of texts and will do everything I can to summarise the interesting parts in the miracle of dot point .

Architect: James Barnet, colonial architect for NSW 1865-90
Date complete: 1st November 1883
Location: Green Cape, NSW, Australia
Height above sea level: 23 mtrs
Height: 29 Mtrs
Light Power:
- 1000 watts,
- Intensity of 1 million candelas
- Range of 19-26 nautical miles

for the full break down and more images, please visit *****************

Information from

http://www.lighthouse.net.au/lights/Bulletin/0408/Bulletin%20Aug%2004.htm

and

National Archives of Australia, A9568, 1/6/1