Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Viva la difference...


This is called "Different Wavelengths" and expresses a diagonally suspended series of shards of mirrors and filters, held together by a clear sheet, interrupted with dark bars like a barcode. "Infra"-red light enters and is reflected by the top part, whilst the bottom is illuminated by ultraviolet. The "barcode" is also intended to be read as spectral lines (used when deducing the composition of objects using chromatography), as well as a pun on the word "bar". Also with the alternating gauze and mirrors alluding to filtration and separation. The "red light" also alluded to the context of the project, London's Soho.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Googlability!


If anyone types "formfollowsfunky" into Google, they end up straight here. I have just wiped this entire blog clean for that very reason. I'm not allowing any old rubbish to appear here. Right, this is for a hotel project above the Kings Cross Thameslink Station, either side of the Crossbar and The Scala, Pentonville Road, London, UK. I envisaged a crystal-like outer skin with an interior like tree-houses, or a multilayered Venice. Was thinking of Ralph Erskine's Ark in Hammersmith, West London, and also looking into fractals and chaos theory.