All Drawings for Bartlett First Term

"Project 1"? :Two-skin Milk

Project 2: Representation Ecosystem by Ink

Meeting 1: Rebuild a Scean of Movie

Meeting 2: Research the China Town

Meeting 3: What's Boundary

Meeting 4: City Seed Grow into Humanist City and Rational City

Meeting 5: The Recurrence of Atlantis

Meeting 6: Two Mechines about Atlantis

Meeting 7: The Whole Story of Atlantis

Bartlett AD First Term Crits

As we saw everybody pin up the whole process of the project today, I put almost all the drawings of this term on the wall which fill the whole wall. There are 30 Pieces in total:)

Story of Atlantis

Structure of Society and City


Collapse of City and Spirit

Escape


Crowded City

Poseidon

Four Hierarchy

Morality Arms

Track Record of Collapse

Atlantis was a flourishing and crowded city as the transportation is highly developed. There were not only a lot of roads but also numerous canals. Carriages and boats were busily running around all the spaces of the city. Buildings were also in high density that you have seldom chance to look thought them to see the sky. In fact, Atlantis is not a single city but ten cities gathering together which managed by ten god. These cities all connected to each other with bridges very well, which make them like a net that floating on the sea. Also, there were two water pipes hidden in these bridges, one was hot stream and one was cold stream that made people in Atlantis had very convenient life. There was a great canal run thought the city. It transported all the crucial material for city life as well as people’s happiness and sadness; it was the acanthi of Atlantis that connect the ocean and the heart of the city.

In the middle of the ring was a palace surrounded with garden, flowers, streams and trees. While in the palace there was a huge temple, which honors the god of this land – Poseidon. On the top of the pillar spire in temple there was a huge gold statue of Poseidon. There were numerous symbols engraved on the pillars which meant the decree of god. Around this pillar there were 100 pillars with fairies riding a dolphin on the top. And all the other 10 cities in the ring have their own tower with the statue of their god. From a distance, the whole cities group was just like candles on the cake.

This city had three colors which were black, red and white. Not only all the buildings were made in these colors, but also people’s clothes. Color was a symbol of rank and profession. White was for the clergy, they had very high status that can release god’s mind to govern the city. Red was for workers who built the city and were manufacturing tools to maintain the running of the entire city smoothly. Black was for shepherd, hunters and farmers who produced base material for the city life and were the bottom of the city. Also, the city has another color, metal, which can reflect the surrounding color. This color was for warrior who took the metal spear and shield array around the city to guard it and attack other countries.

Just like other cities, Atlantis also had fatigue, anger, fantasies and desire, but everything here was done combine with a ceremony. They were seemed to be the most lofty civilization; nonetheless actually they do everything including sin as sacrifice rituals. Because they were the model of the world, so everything in the city is grand and good in appearance, including the churches, theaters, brothels and toilet.

This city was accompanied by two projections. The celestial one was composing with divine place, represent sublimity. The infernal one was composing with grimy places, represent sin.

But with the corruption and depravity of people’s spirit, this city began to reverse. The grimy underground was holding to the air. Meanwhile, the holy sky-projection began to sink. But people in the city did not know. They were still seeking fake virtue from the sky, keeping on tamping the sky with their ideality.

Finally, the top-heavy city lost his balance and overturn completely, just like a ship turn over in the sea. People in Atlantis did not know the truth. Instead, they thought the sky collapsed as well as the heaven’s gates opened. In the meanwhile, numerous large columns of water washed down which made the whole city flooded. As rivers left the riverbed and ocean flooded its banks, the city sunk in one day.

Because the city was totally turned over, the virtue side back to the sky, the grimy side returned to the ground, so Atlantis left a wonderful and sacred impression in people’s memory. It becomes a myth, spread by his refugees all around the world.

Small Installations for Atlantis

Poseidon

Flood

Transportation

Evil (old)

Evil

Angel

Mechanical Installation of Atlantis

Atlantis sunk in the bottom of the Atlantic


People escape from Atlantis


Mechanical Installation of City Balance


Mechanical Installation of Social Structure

Snowflake City

Put a city seed in ocean.


Different shape of snowflake
info from SnowCrystals.com


Generate different shape of snowflake in certain condition


City of Snowflake


Growing up (from black to white)


Central part and six minor parts


Perspective of the city


City seed in water will grow up into a city with H2O characteristics. Since I research about snowflake, I found that scientist now already can adjust the condition to make certain kinds of snowflake. In the future, this technology maybe highly develop to use in different field, including building the city. Maybe it can easily freeze the surrounding ocean to generate the new city land and make building by ocean water. As the shape of H20 molecule and snowflake is hexagon, the shape of the city should be hexagon,too.

UCLA Term 1 Exhibition

City Seed

When we chase back the time, we can see the city is growing like a seed. At the most beginning, there will be an original point, a trigger to build the city. That is the seed of city.


City Seed: it include all the elements necessary for a city. When we put it in different situation, it will grow into different cities.


Seed in desert with no history


Desert seed grow up into a rational city, which is a highly efficient city.


Seed in a town with history


Town seed grow up into a humanistic city, which be influenced by the old history.


Cities are just like ecosystems. They will grow, update, develop, decline and die. In cities, all the elements such as buildings, streets, equipment, people, life, ideals, desire, memories, and even the name are changing. The city that we see is just a fragment in the changing process. So, if we turn the time back, the city at the beginning is like the beginning of the universe, is a chaotic seed, a starting point, a high density, uncertain and powerful origin, which contains all genes of the city.

Every city has such an origin, just like a seed of a tree. These origins are similar to each other, or even the exactly the same, the city’s differences are accumulated in the developing process, the city’s genes and environment constantly influence each other, stimulating each other, restrain each other. Finally, they shape every property, every corner and every feature of the city. Just like a seed, if we throw it in the ocean, it becomes an ocean flower, if we throw it in the desert, it becomes a desert flower, if we throw it in the city, it becomes a city flower. No matter where the origin of city goes, there is a unique city. Some of them are expressed, some are variations, some have been forgotten.

Boundary Thinking - Part III

Different scale have different boundary, which be felt by the symbols in that scale. When the scale is small, people can feel the boundary, when the scale is too large, people can not feel it.

Boundary Thinking - Part II

What's the boundary of a city. Generally thinking, It is define by a line on map. However, nobody really know where the line is. In most people's mind, the boundary of a city is the boundary of the area that they lived, traveled or recognized.
P.S. The black lines in first pic comes from The Geotaggers' World Atlas by Eric Fischer, which mean's in that location there are photos from Flickr and Picasa.