Urban Interactive Sculpture

Time to get the mind into gear, we have been studio deprived for a couple months during the summer break and our professors thought it would be beneficial to begin with a project thought provoking like that of our past projects to get us ready for the Nutrition Lab design project. Create an urban sculpture that can be placed in UNCG's campus and can be interactive for what every group of people you chose to cater to: [Also this must be inspired by one of the many paintings by the amazing Maud Gatewood herself from whom our building is named after.]

Here is my painting:

Maud Gatewood worked alot with both colors and shapes from everyday living to landscape, of the many more colorful and engaging pictures I chose this specific one because of the contrast between light and shadow. The painting is about 90% darkness and 10% light which is shown from behind a lattice like screen, giving the painting an almost ominous or anxious tone when really examined. I wanted to take this stark contrast of light and dark being manipulated and tweak it into my own design.

My Place: The concrete walk between the fountain area and the Quad dorms for upperclassmen.
My People: Freshmen-Senior classes, basically any student living on campus since the concrete walk is a essential pathway to and from the side of campus where classes are and dorms on the latter side.
My Thoughts for Interaction: creating a social pass through or gathering and perhaps creating an area for seating.

Main thoughts on my mind were being able to create a structure that would permit a place for people to meet and maybe even chat between classes or going to their dorms to study. I wanted the structure to

I was told to think in terms of lines in the painting for inspiration.
Think about voids in space in the painting.
To think beyond the colors in front of your face.

Sketches while thinking about these terms:



The what was our next design in the process to 3D design of models.