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| Red Carpet | ||
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| Author(s): | Sai Sriskandarajah Angela Pablo Jane Oh Yonatan Kelib |
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| Instructor: | Gauthier, Jean-Marc | |
| Class: | Spatial Design | |
| URL: | http://itp.nyu.edu/spatialdesign/blog | |
| Documents: | Red Carpet(JPEG) | |
| Keywords: | red carpet, merging of space, inviting, Vito Acconci, warm, entrance, path | |
| A warm, lo-tech, organic experience. | ||
| "Red Carpet" is a low-tech response to a hi-tech event -- a non-digital interactive spatial experience. The project creates a warm, relaxing atmosphere in an otherwise overlooked or underutilized space. The blurring of the relationship between floor and seating disrupts traditional definitions of spatial categories and creates a more fluid and organic sense of space. This concept stems from a desire to transform the physical presence and mood of the existing space using methods and materials covered in the Spatial Design course. Red carpet is used as the defining element of the project because of association with both grand events and a warm, embracing experience. The ITP Winter Show is laden with technology based projects; "Red Carpet" offers visitors a relaxed, low-tech experience to complement their hi-tech surroundings. | ||
| Background: | This project was inspired in part by Vito Acconci's architectural designs, which bring together wall and floor structures. In addition, we looked closely at Bruce Nauman's use of hallways to force viewer immersion, and the hanging scuolptural work of Sarah Tze and Reena Banerjee, among others. | |
| Audience: | Visitors to the Winter Show, ITP students and staff. | |
| User Scenario: | When visitors to the show enter the main hallway, the “Red Carpet” will be immediately visible on the opposite end. Even if there are visitors standing on the actual carpet, portions of fabric on the wall and ceiling will be seen. The red color and organic forms will draw attention to that area of the floor. | |
| Technical System Description: | We will purchase fabric, carpet, and metal wire. The fabric will be supported with wire to create flowing shapes to be hung from existing structures (cable framework, lights, and lockers). Then the project will be illuminated using simple lighting sources (several lamps placed at various angles along the tops of the lockers). An short strip of red carpet will be laid on the floor; the carpet will move toward the walls and integrate with the fabric, merging together ceiling, wall and floor space. | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | Artists that inspired this project include Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Sarah Tze and Reena Banerjee. In addition, we are grateful for the input and advice of our professor, Jean-Marc Gauthier and our classmates from Spatial Design. | |
| Conclusions: | Our “Red Carpet” takes a low tech, more natural approach to transform an underutilized area into an inviting and warmer space. In developing this project, we discovered that an interactive spatial experience need not be dependent on technology. | |