Architecture is just frozen emotion
For this project, I focused on the relationship between human emotions and architecture. Within art and design, as creators, we use our emotions to inspire our work and I wanted to highlight this by developing a series of double exposure expressive designs to represent the varying emotions. Emotions are represented all around us, and I wanted to draw attention to how the building around us reflect emotions like vexation, aggression, anguish and stress through expressive designs and typography.
Brief
Urban environments change – they change all the time due a number of circumstances. This brief asks you to observe change in urban environment and architectural surroundings and to communicate this as a ‘visual narrative’ Using visual storytelling and narratives in its many guises of maps, charts, sequence design, comics, network media (web-pages) you are asked to 'unmake and remake' a place to represent a hidden reality; lost voices; forgotten communities; 'invisible' inhabitants Unmaking and remaking for this brief specifically means pulling apart the many layers of space and time that make a place and then re compose it with a personal message as its focus.
Buildings and Spaces tell Stories
Consider the different ways the fabric of the building on its many scales (macro to micro) communicate human stories through; physical traces; trademarks and signs; utilities of space; decorative versus industrial; high craft versus DIY; wear and tear etc. Whose voices are embedded in the fabric of the buildings; what traces have they left behind?