Marusa-project proposal

SPACE

The architect designs a space intended for users. The building is structured in order for a person to enter it, percieve its size, its shape, texture, temperature and smell. It offers the possibility of living (apartments, houses, etc.), short-term use (school, office, library, gallery, etc.), or just a space to pass through (railway stations, subways). No matter what it is, it is intended and structured for users. So without them, it is a useless, space-consuming space. However, the space can change its role several times in a shorter or longer period of time, and each time it offers the user new experiences. For the final project, I would like to create a space for quick use, with a strong visual effect. The whole concept, however, is that the space only comes to life when a visitor enters it. So I point out that space and user are interdependent.

I have always been interested in architecture, the logic of spaces and their design. For the thesis, I research the usefulness of private gardens within the building in which I live. The large space in the middle of the building has, in my opinion, much greater potential than is currently used or unused. For the project, I will portray this idea with a more abstract approach.

The conceived idea is a continuation of a project from the previous year, where I also wanted to create a space that would physically represent my own performance of the workings of memory and nostalgia. For that, I assembled two objects with mirrors on which the video would be projected, and the effect of the mirrors would scatter the projection around the space all around the viewer, making it impossible to see the whole picture at once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk_u9CJ9WSY&t=22s&ab_channel=NiceGuys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93M9Gq_o5Bk&t=31s&ab_channel=marusavehovar

What do you want to make?
Each room offers a specific usability, kitchen for cooking, office for work, hallway for connecting different rooms. Each of these spaces contain different furniture and facilities for the realisation of the spatial purpose, and at the same time they specify the users stay in the space. I want to set up a space whose purpose is to use the space itself, so there will be no facilities in it for the visitor to focus on. Part of the exhibition space will be dedicated to exhibit space - some kind of utopia.

How would it work?
I'm going to need two walls. One will act as a green screen and the other as a basis for projection. The green screen will be projected on the opposite wall showing only white background. Upon the visitors entering, the camera will detect the loss of green screen data, visitors silhouette will be projected on the wall with a projection, and a document / video / image covered with whiteness will be revealed in the silhouette. In order to view the entire document / video / image, the visitor will have to use the entire space with his body.

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Document / video / image
The revealed image is not the main concept of the project, but it will definitely give a comment in its entirety.
- Still video spaces with users (market, square, metro station, library, living room, studio, ..)
- Color graphics with interesting visual effects
- A painted picture, perhaps a depiction of a utopia, story
- Animation that the visitor would follow
So far, I don’t have a final decision.

How do you plan to make it?
Depends on the exhibition space that will be dedicated to us. I'm also counting on having to assemble the walls myself. I will create, draw and record the hidden content myself.

What is your timetable?
January, February - Gain knowledge and technology to use green screen and video masking, first attempts, making sure it works
March, April - make the necessary walls and a covered document
May - Adaptation to the exhibition space

Who can help you and how?
Barent can help me in the field of technical knowledge My roommate Tanit, a programmer, will help me set up image masking software

Steve suggests:

The proposal needs to lead with your PRACTICE . What are you actually making so...

[TITLE OF PROPOSED PROJECT]

Open with screen shots of these pieces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk_u9CJ9WSY&t=22s&ab_channel=NiceGuys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93M9Gq_o5Bk&t=31s&ab_channel=marusavehovar

I want to continue a project I began last year. In [title(2020)] I wanted to create a space that would physically represent my own performance of the workings of memory and nostalgia. [<< please unpack this and explain more what you mean] For this piece, I assembled two objects with mirrors on which the video would be projected, and the effect of the mirrors would scatter the projection around the space all around the viewer, making it impossible to see the whole picture at once.

For my proposed project [title?] I'm going to need two walls. One will act as a green screen and the other as a surface for projection. The green screen will be projected on the opposite wall showing only white background. When the visitor enters, the camera will detect the loss of green screen data, the visitor's silhouette will be projected on the wall with a projection, and an image covered with whiteness will be revealed in the silhouette. In order to view the entire image, the visitor will have to use the entire space with their body.[OR the visitor will have to scan the entire space with their body in order to reveal the image.]

[<<OK this is shows a clear intention to make something. I would advise that you prototype this NOW and bring the results of your experiment to the proposal seminar (when you show your proposal to the other tutors) and to the GRS. Such occasions usually go well if you have something to show and you demonstrate that you are engaged in a process and that this process has a relation to the things you have made before.

Note on what you have written : in the piece with the mirrors and the proposed piece, you make "it impossible to see the whole picture at once". What benefit is in that , for you? What affect do you expect it to have on the viewer? I suspect it has something to do with allowing the viewer - the person who inhabits the space- to explore the space or the image; to put the pieces back together, to orientate the space. If that is the case, what is the advantage of that, for you?.]

VERY IMPORTANT: what image will you project and why? Actually you could apply different images. What are the possibilities of experimenting with different image? Images of the space we are in?; images of other spaces? &c.]

Why do you want to make it?
Each room offers a specific usability, kitchen for cooking, office for work, hallway for connecting different rooms. Each of these spaces contain different furniture and facilities for the realisation of the spatial purpose, and at the same time they specify the users stay in the space. I want to set up a space whose purpose is to use the space itself, so there will be no facilities in it for the visitor to focus on.

[ <<Again, why do you want this? I accept it is a valid position to take, but I'm curious as to why you want this mode of perception in your viewer. Try to outline this in a couple of sentences. Related question: why make a space with no utility? Can an architecture without 'use value' exist. See Antfarm who proposed architectural spaces not as shelters but as interfaces for shared experiences.]

Part of the exhibition space will be dedicated to exhibit space - some kind of utopia.[ <<please unpack this (in a few sentences)]

How would it work?

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The architect designs a space intended for users. The building is structured in order for a person to enter it, percieve its size, its shape, texture, temperature and smell. It offers the possibility of living (apartments, houses, etc.), short-term use (school, office, library, gallery, etc.), or just a space to pass through (railway stations, subways). No matter what it is, it is intended and structured for users. So without them, it is a useless, space-consuming space. However, the space can change its role several times in a shorter or longer period of time, and each time it offers the user new experiences. For the final project, I would like to create a space for quick use, with a strong visual effect. The whole concept, however, is that the space only comes to life when a visitor enters it. So I point out that space and user are interdependent.

I have always been interested in architecture, the logic of spaces and their design. For the thesis, I research the usefulness of private gardens within the building in which I live. The large space in the middle of the building has, in my opinion, much greater potential than is currently used or unused. For the project, I will portray this idea with a more abstract approach.

Document / video / image
The revealed image is not the main concept of the project, but it will definitely give a comment in its entirety.
- Still video spaces with users (market, square, metro station, library, living room, studio, ..)
- Color graphics with interesting visual effects
- A painted picture, perhaps a depiction of a utopia, story
- Animation that the visitor would follow
So far, I don’t have a final decision.

How do you plan to make it?
Depends on the exhibition space that will be dedicated to us. I'm also counting on having to assemble the walls myself. I will create, draw and record the hidden content myself.

What is your timetable?
January, February - Gain knowledge and technology to use green screen and video masking, first attempts, making sure it works. [<<You need to be prototyping this NOW. and you need to talk about your try-outs, sketches and other material you generate with the tutors and fellow students]
March, April - make the necessary walls and a covered document
May - Adaptation to the exhibition space

Who can help you and how?
Barent can help me in the field of technical knowledge My roommate Tanit, a programmer, will help me set up image masking software

[Context: Frank Gillette; Radical Software experiments with video and space... ANTFARM (works like 'enviroman' (1969)]