talking spaces .
The project is to confront the audience with other abilities,
to see what they do not normally see.
By communicating the architecture of the
city through the typography and Anamorphosis.
It's about changing the public perception of a place by breaking a automatism of perception and giving attention to detail.
Worked with the town hall of Orléans, France
The space worked on is a transation space which links the ground floor to the first floor.
Proposed location : Place d' arc ,Orleans, France
The view from the location also indicating the footfall being aligned in the center.
The goal is to create an identification in a " dead space " devoid of graphic signs that would help the traveler to move. The place would serve as orientation of
the four cardinal compass points.
1 . TRAIN STATION 2. CATHERDRAL 3. FRAC 4. SANTIAGO CALATRAVE'S BRIDGE OVER RIVER LOIRE
Space Analysis for the 4 respective locations.
Conceptualization
First concept that shows the signs of the cathedral from which the typography has been build.
The second test of building a typography is from the plan of the city town.
The circular rings are the places chosen and been grafted. The circles have been used to bring more roundness to the entire form
and less rigitidy and more organic, which marks the space with a separate map. Furthermore circles restore idea of the locations.
The typographical grid has been constructed with the final geometrical grids of the 4 chosen places.
Thier existing structural grids have been overlapped to form a new grid.
The 4 places have been given a certain family of colours in accordance
with thier existing look and feel.
Technical Drawings
To integrate the typography in to the space there is a use of this term called
Anamorphosis
that is, a distorted projection or drawing which appears normal when viewed from a particular point or with a suitable mirror or lens. The visitors of passer by will stop for a minute to view the typography with also acts as in indication to the 4 chosen places.
Construction of the model
Scale - 1:50
Concept execution
It was an extremely enriching experience to be able to travel to France and learn so much.
It was rewarding experience as both volume and graphics were combined a single project. I thank my professors Panni Demeter and Alessandro Vicari who followed me on this project in which we had enormously fun process.
