I don't just photoshop...

One of my biggest assignments of the quarter and definitely one of my biggest challenges so far was my project for Environmental Design. Being assigned the architect, Louis Kahn, I was to create a concept for an 8'x8' mobile exhibit that could be disassembled and moved frequently. Naturally we weren't required to build the actual exhibit, but a scaled model set at 2"=1'. I decided, due to Louis' life being quite tragic and depressing, to focus more on the style he used, which was International (modern). The space is more about volume than mass, meaning big solid walls with little ornamentation. I also wanted to include representations of Kahn's water garden design from Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. The side windows are representations of illuminated water gardens filtering down each side of the exhibit. The back wall is a translucent glass panel with a bitmapped image of Kahn himself pondering, which I felt encapsulated the entire idea of the exhibit. All of his work came from his thought. As you begin to enter the exhibit, you will also notice his name engraved into the front two panels, which in the model I hand-cut with a utility knife. This model itself, along with a real-size panel from the exhibit which is backlit from a light box I built, and the drawing set book will be going into Museum of Design Atlanta on January 4th for 2 weeks. Its been quite amazing to work on something like this that was completely out of my realm and took me out of my Adobe programs, Apple computer comfort zone. Here are some images that one of the photographers from school did for me. Check them out: