Rekindle

This week I was part of the Rekindle group. A few of the members were away at the beginning of the week for this but as spacial students they put together all the renders and what not of the idea we came up with.

So from the previous week we decided that we would do something entirely different, or it turned out that way anyway. Last week they were looking into recycled items, but they were looking at plastic bags and all that. We wanted to look at stuff that actually should have been recycled out of the chch situation likes materials within houses.

We decided on a recognisable home object, a chair, to make out of the recycled materials. So we decided to actually physically move some chairs around to see what kind of shapes we could make.

As you can see it wasn't that successful. However that was only one chair type and our ones were going to be made how we wanted them to be (in theory) so we plodded on. Another part of our idea was using light and shadow to spell things out for us. One way we tried this was by using a projecter and literally projecting onto chairs.

We liked how some of it would become distorted other parts would be clear and concise. However we didn't know how to do this in a space.

So we thought, why not actually just cut out shapes and have the sun do all the work. A free natural resource. It will distort in the shadows which will be quite cool, however you will have a very obvious letter form on the chair as well. 

The Spatial members of the group all started putting together different ways you could lay the chairs out. This is just one of them that I think Luuke put together. 

Climate Change

So we have decided to look more into something that uses water to move the type. I did some trials on how we could perhaps use ink in water. Maybe see if it will slowly come of after time etc. I tried it all on various paper weights as well to see how they all wanted to float.

 This first one, I wanted to actually see how water could distort a letter, however the shape of the glass probably doesnt help. But I still found it quite interesting with it being really big down below and smaller above the water line.

This was the only trial where the ink (letterpress ink) actually noticeably came of in the water. Probably because their were still some slightly wet parts where it hadn't fully dried. I liked what happened, but in terms of a pavilion I don't see how this could work.

This was white on black paper, it wasn't very thick at all. How it moved in the water was quite interesting, but no ink came off.

This is a lighter paper then the green one where the ink actually came of so its movement in the water was actually a lot more natural and less stiff. However once again, the ink was completely dry and even after 24 hours you couldn't actually see any ink in the water. If you rubbed it with your fingers it would come of onto them but thats all.

As a group we then did some stuff together, which is what we ended up showing in class.

We cut polystyrene up into letter forms and used a sink in school to see how the would float and be manipulated in terms of size (like the first picture with the letter K). 

 We liked the buoyancy of the letters however we knew that polystyrene is REALLY bad for the environment so we would have to find a material with the same kind of buoyancy that wasn't shite.

Just thinking about the whole change of mood, pavilion thing again at it reminded me of a scene in a tv show, sense8 (spelling?) where they had a scene in the holocaust memorial which was strikingly beautiful and sad in appearance.

When looking it up, its a completely different tone from its surrounding. A cold, hard and moving (in both ways) space. 

Over the holidays when I went home for a few days I started thinking about possible pavilions around town. Im still not 100% on what a pavilion is but I went for the more a change of pace from whats around it kind of idea.

So first up we have the government gardens/ front of the museum/ where people do some lawn bowls.  Compared to the rest of Rotorua its a pretty laid back, quiet and peaceful area most of the time. Its definitely a change of scene, from the bumbling metropolis (haha) that is Rotorua city and then bam, this guy right here. 

Next up is Eat Streat. It used to just be another road until a few years ago when they started spreading the restaurants out until they came up with this. Now its a nice area that enclosed but not with multiple kinds of food places. 

This is somewhere in the new Police Station. That is all I know. 

This is one of the most typical places you will see photos of from Rotorua. I was wondering if you can have naturally formed pavilions like this? I also found the signage quite interesting and helpful if you aren't sure if the water is boiling hot or not. 

This is a new walk in the Redwoods which is on the Airport side of Rotorua, on your way out to the blue and green lakes. Once again is this a pavilion, maybe. If we go from the whole a different mood and experience then I would say yes. You are looking at something from a completely different way in this setting. 

Then we have the cheap seats at the Rotorua international stadium. I think they were painted like this a little bit before the 2011 RWC, cant fully remember. I just think its interesting that if you aren't standing in the right place, you cant see the image. If you are sitting on those seats, you cant see it, but from a distance and the right angle you can. 

Sadly only one of these had type in it at all, and that was just a name. However I think they are all a bit interesting in their own right.

Holla google for the assist on the images.