The three pieces I decided to sketch are of my Community Arts and Wellness Center. I saw this as an opportunity to explore how space or building could be represented. Architecture can be art and art can be architecture, it just depends on the intent of the designer. I decided to do three perspectives: the gallery, the building perspective, and the restaurant.
The gallery is a space that does not need to have a separate space to view art. Art can be incorporated with the architecture or can be part of the experience. Art can be indoor or outdoor. In my opinion galleries are places people go as a destination, often times it is a place where groups of people go and discuss and view art. I felt that an entrance or lobby is a constantly moving and changing space; a lobby space is a temporary holding space. Lobby spaces have the opportunity to engage people to be part of the space. My design opens up the lobby space to become a place to socialize as well a place to display art. Hopefully the art is created from the community arts center, but the idea is that art is meant to be viewed and discussed and does not need a place such as a “gallery” to show the art. Art can have a stronger meaning or is of greater value if people are able to understand the designers intentions to their art, which is why I feel art, should be in social public space. The movable design allows the space to be open and invite the public to discuss art.
The second sketch is the building perspective, the idea that a building can be viewed as art. In the watercolor the building has no context; it simply is a building with a unique form sitting on grass. This building can be placed anywhere even though it was designed as a site specific design, but without its context it stands alone. In the process of sketching this building I felt that the context takes away its unique quality, but what I wanted to express the form. Although the form is not like blob architecture, it’s design is expressed easily as a watercolor to express materiality, glazing, and layers. The layers really make this building stand out. What is difficult in a static illustration for kinetic architecture it is difficult to express the artistic piece of the architecture, but even at a static position, the architecture is still expressive. The way I drew and watercolor the building is no different from a piece of architecture that can be designed for a specific location, but if removed from its context it becomes art that be placed anyone. I feel that context is important because it expresses the intent of the design in relation to its surroundings.
The last watercolor is of the restaurant space, which uses a lift to add another level for seating. What I tried to do with this watercolor that is different is rather than coloring the object, I water colored the white space to create the image. Art does not need to be an object; art can be an experience that is expressed. Here the main feature is the experience. While the space in the drawing isn’t very unique or expressive, what I wanted to show was the building components can create the space. This was my favorite, the water color is not used everywhere, on what is necessary to understand the space. Water color can be an effective too to do just that in architecture.
This class made me constantly think about what is art, architecture, landscape. Honestly it is difficult to determine. Like our field trip over the bridge near the Mexican border I felt that bridge itself is art, but it can be viewed as architecture as well. The bridge connected two sides and being static on the bridge isn’t an option, which makes this bridge unique from others. Also during this field trip creating a nice neighborhood forced people to care about their own property and others and from each individual creating their unique identity the neighborhood becomes something different from other places in the city and that itself is art. People come to see these types of spaces, very much like paintings and sculptures. Art is made for viewing and discussion, which is why I believe art, architecture, and landscape will always be integrated. I don’t think any of them can truly stand alone.
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