This week I will be focusing on the revolving doors I’ve placed into the foyer space.
During my research on my artist model, Chris Fraser, and the Week 7 exercise on thresholds, I was inspired to create pivot doors to give more interaction with the space, and to document the flow and the movement of people when walking through the space.
Chris Fraser: Revolving Doors
http://www.chrisfraserstudio.com/revolving-doors
Revolving Doors is an embodiment to the uncertainty of city transition. This installation shares a different experience if explored by a single person, or with multiple people, as they can collaborate and open all revolving doors at the same time:
“In response to rapid demographic changes in the Mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco, I created an interactive environment made of pivoting doors. I wanted the space to embody the uncertainty of a city in transition, a city of competing desires, a city that erases and renews. The arrangement of the space enforced a certain civility. Alone, a visitor could open the doors with abandon. With a friend, they could collaborate. But in a group, one had to navigate the space carefully to avoid harming a neighbor.”
Chris Fraser
Pivot Doors
I decided to separate the space into three sections, the middle section being the experience where one can “suspend time temporarily.” For me this means shutting yourself out of the reality of the city to enter a temporary relief, and move around without the stress of time passing.
Light Projection
Much like Fraser’s work, I would like to encourage people to “collaborate” and work together and have fun to create images with light projection, by pushing pivot doors to certain angles and such. So I have decided to add in colours in the space using filtered lights.
Nooroa’s Feedback
- How would I “suspense” time?
- What would that look like, and how does it connect/disconnect to other parts of the site?
- Thinking about the middle space: Doors in relation to time
- What happens if I were to put more doors?
- Doors activating time -> moving -> invokes action?
- Revolving doors: a clock-ticking movement
- How would I streamline (tie together) the doors, walkway, booth?
- Perhaps something happens at the booth?
Changes I would make/consider:
- Rather than making the pivot doors move anti-clockwise, I want to make them move clockwise, to reflect the hands moving on a clock.
- Utilise the space adjacent to the Lorne Street entrance: adding more doors, creating a new path so that there are two paths one could take
- The new path is not as “exposed” to the rest of the space: could use this space to “suspend time” rather than my initial area (my initial “suspense” area would contain too much movement in regards to people moving through the space, destroying the illusion of suspending time).
- Consideration of materials: how to make it so that the doors are not too light, yet not too heavy
- Add artificial lights across booth to project light
- Projection colours in pivot doors
Adding Door Handles
When looking at the render of my design, I noticed that my pivot doors looked bland, and it was difficult to show which side of the door was the side you walk through. This is vital as the pivot doors are intended to spin in a clockwise direction, yet there is no indication of this without door handles. I decided to test by experimenting, and ended up refining it as I thought the material choice (brass) helped tie the design together.
Iteration #1
To add some dimension, I made the section of the handles recessed. I also did the same with the edges of the panels to make them more pronounced.
Iteration #2
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