colors of the brain

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong

SCALE

tiny! medium! gigantic! all sizes!

Tiny Spaces

spaces at the small scale. objects, sculptures, furniture.

medium Spaces

spaces at the medium scale. pavilions, structures, rooms that fit multiple people, animals and things.

gigantic Spaces

spaces at the urban scale. larger interventions, proposals for new buildings, new cities.

+ Collaboration with Troy Conrad Therrien for "The Colors of the Brain" conference with Columbia University GSAPP, MOMA and Studio Olafur Eliasson / 2008

The parallel walls of the 200-level of Avery are treated as image planes onto which space has been projected in perspective from two different points. The implied curvature of the wallpaper was produced by Catia and driven by computational mathematics analysis software. With consistent twisting of the lenticular panels as a constraint, the geometry of the wall was first bent to evoke the curvature of the walls on the exterior of the auditorium, then flattened to fit the plane of the walls of the 200-level. The walls are twisted both along their circumference and the radial line of the edge itself. As a result, two distinct viewpoints reveal the geometry of the space, marked by the location of the viewer evoked by perspective point of the landscape image in the background. The resultant effect is to suggest the experience of moving through a space other than the given parallel walls of the gallery.
- Jeannie Kim