The actual environment

I walked into forest to look the light through the trees.
Trees cast moving shadows as the sunlight rotates throughout the day.

Paper suvery the site

the piece of model:


Outside of map:paper survey the site and leave the trace.
Inside of map:paper shift between light and shadow and fold, cut through the light path.

PHOTOGRAPHER ABELARDO MORELL

Camera Obscura
Manhattan View Looking South in Large Room, 1996

To create these seeming optical illusions, Abe finds a room with a compelling view and covers the windows with black plastic. He cuts a small hole in the plastic and the view from outside spills onto the wall opposite the window upside down and inverted. Suddenly a busy street is on the wall of a conference room. To capture the scene, Abe leaves his camera in the room and exposes the negative over the course of the day.

Shadow of House-Director and Producer: Allie Humenuk

Working alone, Allie Humenuk, director of Shadow of the House, filmed Morell and his family for over 7 years both at home and abroad. During the film, Morell returns to Cuba for the first time since his escape in 1962. This decision, and the intense anger and fear it arouses in his family, forces him to wrestle with his sense of identity, familial allegiance, and cultural politics. Shadow of the House explores the intersection between these issues and Morell’s idiosyncratic artistic vision.

One ruin visited once

Tintern Abbey
It was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on May 9, 1131. Situated on the River Wye in Monmouthshire, it was only the second cistercian foundation in Britain, and the first in Wales.

Context

"The pencil has been called the most potent instrument in the world, for it gives most of man's thoughts and aspirations their first visible form.

Drawings are like windows through which we see things. The draughtsman, who is a maker of these windows, appreciates the effort put into them much more so than others, who only see through drawings,as it were, to the things themselves depicted and so take drawing for granted. Drawing is of this nature, and man who can draw can think of, and deal with, many things and problems which another man cannot."(Peter Jeffrey, B. 1979)

Preface

“It is important to remember that in the classical tradition, drawing began when a Corintian maiden outlined the shadow (a profile) of her departing lover on a wall.” (P’erez-G’omez, A. & Pelletier, L. 1997)
Construction and Reconstruction

Sites Journey :Lines of the Ancient Astronomers Stone Circle-Ley consciousness-Churches

Leys (or alignments) are straight lines running between landmarks such as standing stones and other megaliths, earthworks, tumuli, ponds, churches (which were often built on pagan sites) and natural features. They can stretch for just a few miles, or for many hundreds.

Leys, two of them running parallel, on the Bedfordshire-Hertfordshire border, formed by alignments of churchs on ancient sites, earthworks and stretches of tracks which often lead up to churches.

A line of four standing stones, one of them in the sone circle at Castle Fraser, Aberdeenshire. This pattern of megalithic alignments from stone circles is repeated throughout the country and provides the primary evidence of the ley system.

From the antiquity, the relationship between astronomy and shadow tracers (sundial) had been firmly developed in the Western architectural tradition. The geometric and mathematical arrangement of this sophisticated system has ties back to ancient civilizations, enabling these people to navigate their spatial position on the earth, with an understanding of time and duration. To investigate the simultaneity of light and shadow, the ancients used the structure of the Stone Circle ,one of sites is the rollright stones where is located in Oxfordshire.

It precisely transforms the light from the sun, the moon and the stars to shadows. From Ptolemy’s works, Analemma and Planispherium, were seeking to represent the heavenly sphere by projecting the shadow to a plane. In De architectura, Vitruvius emphasized the importance of both astronomy and optics for architects. Optics was necessary for formal adjustments and proportional corrections; astronomy, on the other hand, allowed the architect to “find the east, west, south, and north, as well s the theory of the heavens, the equinox, solstices, and courses of the stars.

Existence and Destruction:

From fragment to chaos - Performers show on the stage

By definition, the ruin is a fragment. The stones of the Forum, temple columns,cathedral towers-are all vestiges of a now vanished monument,of a history which exists no more.The ruin conjures up absence. And yet in the same breath one might say that the presence of a ruin creates a world with colours,atmosphere, and ghosts of its own, tearing itself off the past like a page ripped from a calendar.Hence the ruin is more than a fragment.

Initially seemingly chaotic, the fields littered with ruins that Poliphhilo walks through appear, as he advances, increasingly invested with meaning, so that eventually his archeological and epigraphic curiosity is awakened:" Admiring these beautiful fragments with much delight and pleasure I was still avid to search out new finds. I roamed like some animal always seeking better pasture over the heap of ruins and the huge columns, some in pieces,others whole"

Perspective machines

An involvement with the basic techniques and instruments of mensuration is perhaps the most widespread of the common factors amongst the most prominent of the early perspectivist.


Component of the automatic perspective machine, from Cilgoli's "prospettive pratica".Draughtsman operating the perspective machine, from Cilgoli's "prospettive pratica".

A woodcut illustration, used both on the title page of the treatise and in the text, shows the draughtsman operating the machine. He uses his left hand to pull the chords which move the vertical member back and forth across the intersecting plane,while he moves the drawing instrument in his right hand in such a way as to move the bead up and down the shaft. The position of the bead as sighted through the eyehole can thus be moved continuously over the object while the draughtsman's hand traces the resulting configuration on a drawing surface which is pinned to the base board.

This machine is the first which has a genuine claim to provide an automated drawing system.It used only one operation to make a direct transcription on the drawing surface of the object as it appears at the intersection.
Perspective machine uesd tp project froms on to a wall and curved vault, from Cilgoli's "prospettive pratica".

Cilgoli's perspective machine s illustrated in J.F.Niceron's Thaumaturgus opticus,Paris,1646

Referance from:The science of art optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat

0225-0227.2009 workshop: AHO+BARTLETT=i-DAT

discuss ideas,working, and practicing to present itthe sketch of our group
the ideas of process


the sensors around the building collect the temperature to sense how the human active to reflact the architecture. we focus on the corridor where connect with other interior space in the building and people always pass through it.we try to visualise the temperature of human and the sensor sense it into the date furthermore connecting with others.it is the network of the temperature sensors.