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LOOKING FOR THE STARS
The concept of ‘Star Gazing’ comes to me
in two ways. An individual experience of
the stars and within a group looking and
discussing what we see. The approach I
took to designing a space for ‘gazing’ was
as such. The individual’s experience and
a group experience. Both need something
different for their experience.
The contrast between these two
experiences can also be echoed in a
difference between the Sun and the Moon.
The Sun in this project, I feel, is just as
important as looking to the heavenly night
sky. The period of star gazing in Norway
is winter time, 7 months of the year. The
other 5 months are filled with long bright
1:20 Scale Model
nights and I hope in my project to address
both night and day.
Taking lead from this approach to the
night and day elements of this project
I decided to contrast the individual and
group experiences physically different.
The individual experience is in the form
of a tower elevating you above the site
and hence closer to the stars. There is
only space for two people atop this timber
tower.
The group aspect of the is represented
physically as the Moon Dial. A spiral helix
which is divided equally through a centre
point. The spiral is based on a sun dial
with the fire place at it’s centre, this also
acts as a primal experience through the
Children’s drawing -
Used as inspiration for the intention programme
Development sketches
Sketch model 1:200