Concept Development

Impression:

The first impression I got once we arrived at the Meatpacking district was an active and alive place. Walking inside the market, it felt like everything was being connected even though every store sold different products, alive and active people walking in and out of the stores. I still had the same exact impression leaving the market and being on the highline. But it wasn’t until we got to Pier 57 where my impression changed drastically from alive/active to lonely, abandoned, separated, and left behind. My collage is trying to signify loneliness, abandoned, separated, and left behind. The child in the center is representing loneliness and being left behind, in which I felt Pier 57 looked like. The Meatpacking district goes from an active and live place to an old, lonely and left behind pier. The railroad tracks, rocks, and forest is representing abandoned, it’s like this feeling about pier 57 where nobody really knows what it is, not an active place but yet it exists. And the dark hands represent separation, I feel like pier 57 is not being connected to the Meatpacking district, it’s like there is two different districts in one.

Active/ Alive:

I choose the two words active and alive based on the whole site which is the Meatpacking district. It’s an active place, there are a lot of restaurants, bars, clothing shops, and art galleries. It’s alive because the district its self is very crowded, in every street and avenue you walk on, you are always stepping or bumping into someone. There are restaurants, bars, and clubs that are open until late nights. So what my collage is representing is activeness and liveness. I have a heart beat going across the collage to represent liveness, the heart beat doesn’t stop it keeps going, in order to be alive your heart beat needs to be beating. I also represent liveness by putting the dim lights in the background, I believe in order to be alive you need light to see and it needs to be bright. To me alive also means being happy and joyful that’s why I have the circles in different colors, it also represents light. I represent activeness by having the two women exercising in a sunset. But in order to be active you need light and need to be alive so that’s where everything comes into play the heartbeat, the different light colors, and the dim lights in the background. 

Program of the Project:

The program of my project is an art and design educational facility. It’s a school where you are able to perfection your art skills, a place where you learn how to design not just in an architectural way but also in an artistic way. It’s a school that shows you how to express yourself in an artful manner and makes you see outside the box. So what my collage is trying to portray is art and design. I have a flower in a sunrise background representing art, to me art is the beauty of nature, and the flower also has a vivid color to it, this is helping it standout in another way making it feel alive. I believe art should always standout, in every possible way. The flower is resting in a wood fence because beauty, nature, and art should never be tired in other words it shouldn’t go to waste, it should always be alive. Art is all about different colors light or dark, that’s why I have the sunrise in the background giving it a very bright light in the center and the ocean in a darker tone. I have a building model siting on a floor plan portraying design. It’s in the sky because I believe architects are always designing to create new futures, and you always look up to see or create your future you never look down. And the building model and floor plan are sitting right on top of the bright light because in order to see future you need to see light. I also have the paint brushes representing art. These brushes function as art because you need color to create art, the brushes also function as pens to create floor plans. And I believe the brushes is what draws everything, what gives color to everything, what designs everything, and what creates everything, so it’s not just a tool to draw but it’s also a tool to create.