Project Three (Final Review) - Michael Pham

ARTIST STATEMENT

I chose Nathan Philip Square because it had a lot of free space. I think it is a good opportunity to use this space to show different elements of design to create this gallery. This site was important because it also had an artwork (The Archer) displayed already and it seem incomplete somehow. I wanted to connect the old and the new by adding Carsten Holler’s artwork (Rhinoceros). The gallery was to connect both art pieces in different zones. The larger zone is where the Rhinoceros will be located because it’s the main focus of the art piece and the smaller is for The Archer. The goal of this gallery was to create a maze type space where you get the feeling of being lost and finding your way to the artwork. This maze is design to enclose the artwork, so that you can see minimum outside of this space, but the intent is bringing curiosity to the viewers so they can be drawn to the gallery to see the artwork and also to see the design of the space that surrounds the art.

SHOWCASE: CARSTEN HOLLER'S RHINOCEROS

SITE: NATHAN PHILIP SQUARE

CARSTEN HOLLER'S GALLERY

PERPECTIVES

MODEL
PLAN
ELEVATIONS
SECTIONS

Exercise Seven: Michael Pham

Carsten Höller

"Upside Down Mushroom Room"

1994-1995

2000 exhibited at Fondazione Prada Milan

Click link for more artwork of Carsten Höller http://www.airdeparis.com/holler.htm#

"The mushrooms are confined to an upside down room, illuminated from below - there's a reference to the Umkehrbrille (Upside Down Spectacles) (1993), but here the room appears to be upside down without having to resort to glasses. At the beginning of the twentieth century, George Stratton wore spectacles of this type for eight days running. After passing through intermediate stages in which he saw, for example, a candle upside down when it was unlit and in the "correct" position when it was burning, on the eighth day he saw everything as he did before wearing the glasses. He had adapted once again to the continuous process of adjustment that is part of sight, because the image on the retina is upside down before the brain deals with it. When you see the world upside down, you're seeing the "real" world"

Quote sited from: http://dedismo.tripod.com/computermusic/id2.html

Exercise Six - Exquisite Corpse - Michael Pham

2.2.1 Project Two(Part One): Michael Pham

For this section, I plan on doing a collage of maybe my own drawings, photos, paintings or any media I could get. I will try to Photoshop trees, people, pets or any thing relevant to my site and of course to scale.

Sketches for my section

Site Documentation

Exercise five: Michael Pham (Osgoode Hall)

1. The Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, opened Cumberland & Storm’s Osgoode Hall on September 8, 1860. The Prince entered through the new main doors, was welcomed in the newly built atrium, and proceeded to the library where he danced the night away.

Osgoode Hall Library 1860

2. The Osgoode Hall drawings remained in Storm’s possession. At his passing in 1892, Edmund Burke, another well-known Toronto architect, took over Storm’s practice and inherited the drawings. Burke became the partner of J. C. B. Horwood in 1894, with whom he worked until his premature death in 1919.

Floor Plan, Sections and Elevations

Old Archive Drawings

Detail drawing

3. Jack Diamond + Schmitt Architects Inc will be building the expansion of Osgoode hall building. The brainchild of Jack Diamond, a principal with Toronto’s Diamond + Schmitt Architects Inc were the inspired mind behind the city’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts and the York University Student Centre, for which he was presented with the Governor General’s Award for Architecture and the Award of Excellence from Canadian Architect.

Model of new Building

1:3 FINCH STATION - Eve Zorawski

1:1 GROUP BASE MAP
1:2 COMBINATION OF FORCES
1:3 INDIVIDUAL FORCES

RELATION BETWEEN STILL AND MOBILE:

Combining STILL PLANES with the TRAFFIC WEB map created a remarkable contrast between the two forces and how they interact with one another.

Certain planar forces become combined with mobile forces creating a hybrid force, for example as seen with the interaction between FIELD/PARKS- in planes and UNPAVED PATHWAYS- in traffic. (See Image). The two forces also complement one another to better understand their singular relevance. For example, though the Public Transit parking lots take up a great percentage of still planes, during certain times of day they do become quite active.

RELATION BETWEEN ETHNICITY AND ACTIVITY LEVELS IN AREA :

Combining DAY AND NIGHT: SOCIAL ACTIVITY with the OLD AND NEW: POPULATION, SETTLEMENTS and ETHNICITY map enabled us to better understand residential and commercial forces in a more abstract way.

The DAY AND NIGHT: SOCIAL ACTIVITY map begins to inadvertently represent more commercial areas as well as the OLD AND NEW: POPULATION, SETTLEMENTS map which does the same but with the residential. The combination also emphasizes the development of the old Canadian settlements in the area and how they might have migrated and spread.

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Eve Z.: STILL PLANES


















Amanda C.: TRAFFIC WEB



















Anahita K.: OLD, NEW, AND ETHNICITY




















Michael P..: DAY VS. NIGHT: SOCIAL ACTIVITY

Project 1/2. Finch Station - Michael Pham

Base Map

Force 1 - Business

Force 2 - Community

Force 3 - Condominium

Force 4 - Korean Town

Force 5 -Traffic