Ralph's childhood habit which consequently turned into an adult passion: Obsessed with volatile frames, ever changing views, each view carries significance. The idea is to create a way to work with nature to manipulate, to capture a moment in time.
There is a sense of anticipation, longing, waiting for an appointed moment.
A moment uncontrollable by human manipulation, a moment beyond the earthly being, a Godly moment. In Greek, we call it Kairos.
the Beginning.
Framing a view starts with a normal window, then wait upon mother nature to change the view passively. I began to realise if the window faces a tree and the mountain, reality is they will be there for a long time and changes aren't evident enough to satisfy the thirst for the different. The solution came about when I notice the movement of the sliding window, the motion of sliding it sideways. As shown in my sketch, the moving window frames a different view every time it moves, initiating an active decision to modify the framing content. This is what I call working with nature to frame a moment.
attempt one.
Acquiring the rectilinear shape of the sliding window, and resembling "tracks" of the sliding window, the forms were directly translated into the shape of the building. Each block moves slowly and individually in different direction on the track, hence changing the inhabitants look out every minute. Design is kept as minimal as possible to allow the view from the outside to take control.
Ralph is an expressive person. He is deliberate in expressing his life to others, to share his joy to strangers. That description nicely fit into the "transparency" of the building, with floor to ceiling windows, portraying his bare nature.
attempt two.
The rectangular first attempt was some what, boring and well planned. It loses flexibility and being unpredictable. The only non linear, ever changing direction shape I could thought of was a circle. In which not to change the shape of the individual blocks into spheres, but to modify the path of the individual blocks to the perimeter of a circle, every position faces the tangent of the circle. I broke the circle into 5 and placed them right behind each other in a planned random order.birth of Kairos.
To wait upon and appointed time, which only can be defined through a supernatural sense. Kairos, a God appointed time.Each individual blocks will move in random order, from left to right, but there will be a time when they all meet up.
the inhabitant would constantly wait for the kairos, similar as waiting for a miracle.
No tangible signs of wonder when this is achieved, though.
from binary to reality.
The contrast between white and grey card board seems alright. Looks similar to the sketchup model, in a more enclosed fashion and without the rear "tower".
The rear tower was replaced by a mirror tower in unit 7 as shown above. The mirror tower is 4 full length mirrors held together by a pillar.
When Kairos happens, you'll be able to see your reflection from the outside at the mirror tower, to reiterate the fact that you are naked standing before God. When the second Kairos happens, people from the outside would be able to view the reflection of the inhabitant through the mirror tower.
final one.
The design has evolved back to the more exposed version, full length windows. The final one has been enhanced in the complexity of the design and planning. The fourth block from the front had adapted a new form of sliding mechanism, and the last block has been elevated to improve visibility. The final one is more unpredictable with reduced reoccurring forms, feels more fluid, the curves are more evident, the height is not the same, creating a contour of lines from above and more spatial movement.
The model is done, just waiting for the kairos moment.
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