Today's meeting focused on our designs. Richard said that there are many possible arrangments for my museum. It could be that it's spherical, that it has a rotating center where you stand in the middle and go into certain areas that surrounds. Or it could be a long corridoor that takes you through a confusing maze....and he said that perhaps the big idea in my design is that fighting for beauty is stupid, thus an architecture that conveys that emptiness through out it. He also asked about the form and the look of this building and he seemed happy with the idea that it takes no specific form, that it's different from every view, ambigious. However since that talk, i came up with another idea. Here is a part of my email to him:
AFter the research so far, i've discovered that beauty is constantly changing at the rate that we're changing, no matter if its artistic beauty, an act of human skill, natural, human figure beauty- it all depends on where the person or the human race is in time, it's usually whatever we lack, whatever we don't have, whatever that makes us curious, whatever makes us feel at peace- so it's all about contrast. [ the thesis writing would be to investigate this theory through the research on the types of beauty and the types of reasons for those beauty- so the design is like the solution rather than the 3D visualized version i previously said]
So Beauty is not visual, it's when something embodies a quality. THe visual is for taking in the formatted image, and to recognize it as beautiful means you are aware of yourself and what you need and who you are. [this is a good explaination for evolution's sexual selection 'theory' but also for things like why do we appreciate a well painted painting? If i know that i could also paint the exact same effect- would i still find it as beautiful?]
So i guess my point is that is that i need to create a place much like Weixin's isolated place- but instead of reconnecting to the sea, it's reconnecting to ourselves- for self awareness, to be taken away from this world into another where you are able to see all the images and challenge one's perception of who they may be- and only then will they be able to understand the reasons as to why they find certain things beautiful and understand what is beautiful.
So like i said today, i want to create a place where one could dwell imaginatively within another dimension or realm- a place one could go to feel a certain way about the world and to better understand it. So what if i found a site where the buildings and other things on it displays the different types of beauty [human skill, artistic, natural, human faces...] then pull these spaces underground and while keeping them in a way that the person can recognize their real self above ground but stil change them to create the space i desire? So it's like using existing and physical places of beauty rather than creating them within the museum. Im intereted in underground because it's like a placelessness realm that doesn't belong to the surface yet it is an image of the things above. A contrasting theme which seems to be running through my research at the moment.
So i would create a place which takes no exterior form- at least none that the observor could tell and it's thus all about the experience. It doesn't really take place in the real world, at least not in the day-to-day visual world. I will leave it as that for now and wait for his reply. In the meantime i need to do my brief and search up more ideas of the self? so lost
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