Deconstructed Model

When layered upon each other, the spaces left behind from model-making are interesting to look at; they retain powerful components of the negative space of the model. I created this concept digitally in order to project back into the space that the model was based on.

(UdK Berlin)Extracts of Local Distance - Images

These are the type of images they create.


Click here to view images and videos of their process and here to view the results.

(UdK Berlin) Extracts of Local Distance

Deconstructivism through technology.

"an object is taken apart, decomposed and shaped in a new way."

(taken from the Extracts of Local Distance website)

Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer.

Digital scans of analogue architectural photography form tiny pieces of a large resulting puzzle. The original pictures are being analysed and categorised according to their vanishing-points and shapes. Based on this analysis, slices are being extracted from the source image. These slices retain the information of their position corresponding to their original vanishing-point and thus form a large pool of pieces, ready to be applied to new perspectives and shapes.

Using the extracted image segments, it is now possible to form collages of originally different pictures with a new common perspective. In order to compose a collage, a perspective-grid is defined and a lining of matching image segments is being applied. The segments are not altered to match the frame but fitting ones are chosen from the sheer mass of possible pieces. By defining additional keywords which describe the content of the original photographs, the selection of segments used for the final composition can be influenced. Thus a contextual layer is added through the semantic linking with the source material.

The recompositions mix and match the views and perspectives of both the architect and the photographer with a third, newly chosen frame. The resulting fine-art prints are entirely unique each time.

Extracts of Local Distance from STOESELTNTPRO on Vimeo.

R U I M T E R U I S

I came across their blog today and found it very inspiring. They use this blog as a "creative outlet to test design ideas"

"The focus is on form & space, architectural surfaces, light & shadow."

I particularly like their Kienitzer post...

...their Isocubes post...

...and their Cubrigg2 post.

But go to their blog for more works and also Pieter Van den Dorpe's blog, the man behind R U I M T E R U I S.

Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind, an internationally renowned architect, has recently become influential on my work. From the following images you will understand why...

Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA.

Danish Jewish Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany.

For more information on Studio Daniel Libeskind and his projects go to http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/