City of Dreams pavilion

This was an architectural competition based in NY which I entered at the end of 2010. The idea was to design a pavilion to be placed on Governer’s Island. The 2 images show the idea I was working with before my computer went kaput and died on me 2 weeks before submission. So I was not able to send anything in the end to my great frustration.

 

The idea involved a number of themes, including virtual travel, broken distorted memories and a place to exercise self introspection! The frame is fragmented so you can see bits of the island as you walk through it. The inside of the frame is clad in mirrors and you see a reflection of yourself juxtaposed with the island and looking further to the opposite side a glimpse of New York . It’s a bit like how dreams are fragmented. I read Freud while reseraching the project. Wow, that guy has a one track mind!

Later I might post some of the sketches and ideas I had to this blog, if I have time.

Grand Rapids Art Museum

 

I am breaking my promise not to include any previous work images into this blog because my proper website is taking longer than expected to finish. I thought I might as well stick in a few things here for now. So, this is a project I worked on with a landscape architect. The images are part of 3 proposals we sent to Munkenbeck and Marshall who were responsible for the proposed building at the time. I decided to keep the drawings freehand because the design is very simple and also to the reflect the fact that we were only at the beginning of the concept stage.