Daniel Eaton

The dimpled glass in my bathroom has inspired me in the materiality of my project. Like a snake skin, the light reflected through this material has interested me and could potentially be something expored in my snake-like design.

Today I moved the model forward, adding thickness to the walls, windows and finalising the stairwell.

To begin the month, construction began on my model of St Paul St Gallery. A simple construction method of using a net template to allow corners to join has been used. I have chosen a heavy grade white paper, ghost-like, as the construction material. This is to provide a Simple elegant base that proves somewhat eerie and phantom-like – a blank slate for dreams to fabricate themselves. This could potentially offset my almost violent threshold…

I have been influenced by the Mobius strip – this mathematical phenomenon within an infinite, perpetual loop. Like a dream cycle, I would love for this to come into the design as an installation like piece that occupies the space. As if a living creature, snake-like and representative of dreams, its unnatural presence in the space will evoke a dramatic tension.

Seen here are the initial 1:50 scale drawings of St Paul Street Gallery. I found myself fascinated by how light entered the enclosed space. The internal windows acted like a complete barrier when the blinds of the gallery where shut. It was as though no space excited beyond the glass. My threshold moments depict this light – either barricaded by the windows or permeating through them. Their organic form stems from my initial Sleep/Wake project, taking inspiration from the flowing curtain. The lucid design permeates the building seeking refuge. One iteration shows it finding its way to the dark back corner of the room, coiling up and occupying the space. Some dreams are unwanted. We cannot stop them. These designs would be interesting to see as a voluminous structure.

An asymmetrical exploded view of St Paul Street Gallery and its surrounding environment is featured in my site map. Hand Drawn elements further this extrusion, as well as the projection lines that stem from the site. A scale of light to dark is seen on the right, of the building itself in relation to the city block it sits. This leads to an aerial view of the building, with the space in-between – something equally important- cut out and highlighted through the use of positive/negative interplay.