Place Non-place and Mutability in the Intimate Metropolis
This is a link to the supplementary essay that supports my Fourth project.
Place NonPlace Mutability in the Intimate Metropolis.pdf
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Art Under The Bridge
I’m still thinking about what to put in the foreground. A ladder with some cans surrounding it where the artist was working until he or she decided to take the picture that you see? A cyclist going by on the cycle path. I need some traffic still. I’m not sure about the buildings on the right hand side, they don’t have the authenticity of the ones on the left. I am really happy with the way the scaffolding has turned out on the left.
Final Street Scene
This is the final street scene with an appropriate level of DOF, masked AO and the odd touch up.
I am really happy with the results now.
Final touches to street scene
I have closed the ground floor curtains to reflect the fact that there is reduced privacy at this level. I’ve added graffiti which adds to the feel of the scene. Volume light has been used to add atmosphere at the windows. This really works and has significantly reduced the flat feeling that I was getting from the main brick wall. I’ve modified the galvanized materials. The balconies now have slight rusting and the main rails are significantly aged, possibly too much. I’ve reduced the bump level of the brick material. I’ve added moss to the main window texture and it looks far more aged now. I have also used an ambient occlusion pass to dirty up the scene and the results are pretty cool. I am really happy. The only thing I need to do is sort out the Depth of Field settings with the vRay Physical Camera. I’ve read up on it a few minutes ago and I have been mixing up Focal Length and Film Gate; resulting in slight DOF effect and long render times of a couple of hours, disappointing but I know what I need to do next to fix it.
Current street scene. This is the composite of the render and the ambient occlusion pass with a bit of Photoshop masking to reveal some details that the AO pass was hiding.
Enter Mutability
Using the photo montage of an earlier post as a guide post I am developing the scene further so it illustrates the change that the old Victorian factory has gone through to become a dwelling place.
Research
I am in the middle of a write up of my research surrounding Intimate Metropolis, Non-Places and How Buildings Learn. All three books are interesting in their own right. I am pulling them apart and adding Bachelard to the concoction. It seems to be working at the moment, but a second opinion at the next tutorial on the 25th will probably prove useful.
Intimate Metropolis
I have a copy of Intimate Metropolis which makes some interesting points about Public and Private / Collective and Individual and how living space, even exterior living space is still interior in terms of the entire “Plan or Arrangement”.
So far I have read through the interesting and relevent chapters and made notes on scraps of paper which mark the page for referencing purposes.
I’m going to start on Marc Auge’s Non-Places next and then bring my findings together in a piece of writing to support my work.
