Equus - Third Design

The third design started from ideas for creating the entrance staircase from the second design in a card model. The lamination of thin paper with a glue with high water content would give the desired effect, but again the entrance would look out of place to the slope of the land. The thought then was to allow the laminated paper to re-form the slope of the land, building up to a crescendo at the entrance. The problem then was the counterpoint to something rather pseudo-organic. A tall white cutting wall was added as an element to be "swallowed" by the land at the lowest point and "freed" at the highest point, which then forms the tower. These elements are dichotomous, one element attempts to re-form the earth, and the other attempts to separate it.

Again as in the previous design the tower was a problem for me. At the entrance the restrictive elements of the pseudo-organic wall are released, and then the cutting wall is left to its own devises, without slope or anything else to remotely counterpoint its existence, However, the tower has a great relationship to the cutting wall, as it forms a reduction in context for the observer, or rather, a tension between the free view and the selected view. The cutting wall is the tower's apparatus for the observation of the occupant, akin to the microscope. The tower is separated from the wall, but bares relationship to it in height and proportion. Once the citizen reaches the observation platform, his view is reduced, the walls are white and the shape is a simple cube. One wall is left glazed, where there is a view down a long square prism, to unit 7 of the residence. The view is ghosted by a square halo of light from the separation between the tower and the cutting wall.