Isik Hong

Observatory from Hedge

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Church from St Paul cathedral

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Residence from living room

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03_HEDGE_observatory_SECTION

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03_HEDGE_observatory_ELEVATION

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03_HEDGE_observatory_plan

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Section Drawing

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Platform Plan

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PERSPECTIVE [PLATFORM]

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PLATFORM ELEVATION

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SCENE_3 [LIVING ROOM] 1:1 drawing

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SCENE_2 [HEDGE_KINGS HENRY MOUND]

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SCENE_1 [INSIDE ST PAUL]

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1:1 drawing from camera obscura [living room]

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Inside St Paul

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The trace of cloud

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The shape of the platform [Drawing]

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Now, keep adding information...

Mapping landscape

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point cloud data by 3D scanner

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The image by 3D scanner

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The physical model for LIDAR scan

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This model represents landscape. It is made for LIDAR scanning. When 3D scanner work, the scanner recognizes the objects through the line of LASER. The laser scans the geometrical curvature of objects. When the scanner moves, the curvatures are archived. The scanned image by 3D scanner is the collection of the line on surface.

The hovering platform will scan the landscape of London by pinhole like LIDAR. When certain image is projected on the landscape of London by the platform, obviously the image will be distorted because of the 3 dimensional shape of landscape. Through the strength of curvature, we can estimate the shape of landscape.

the hovering platform over London

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Section Drawing

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The brief of my work

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In order to understand the latent needs in the architectural system, a narrative about a situation in the future is employed. In the future, due to global warming, much of the land could be covered with water. It is widely accepted that global warming will increase the sea level over the coming century and beyond. The current sea level rise has increased at the rate of 1.8 mm per year for the past century. It could trigger a tragedy for coastal land in the next centuries: for example, many major cities such as London and New Orleans already need storm-surge defences, and would need more if the sea level rose, plus large tracks of coastal land would disappear. (Meehl G. A., 2005, p. 1769) Through ‘The Drowned World’, London, which is covered under water, can be imagined in detail. The world submerged under water is illustrated like a tropical rain forest.

What?

The main idea of this project is how the image of landscape can be recorded and archived through pinholes. I am designing a hovering platform to record and archive the image of a landscape. It is not simply a recording of certain objects in detail but archiving objects and the context of landscape through time. Moreover, it can be a vision machine in London to support a system of future landscape as a propositional event space.

Why?

The main purpose of the platform is to help landscape reconstruction due to preserving the flow of sight through time in order to prepare for natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.

That is to say, the platform will archive the everyday landscape before London is covered under water. When natural disaster occurs, the image in the platform could support the reconstruction of the landscape. Moreover, the preserved time-based image might be used in a museum as a London landscape history.

How?

In order to design the platform, this project has been examined through 5 different techniques. Each technique explores how the platform can archive and record the image visually with physical holes, and how the information will be interpreted in the future.

“All the way down the creek, perched in the windows of the office blocks and department stores, the iguanas watched them go past, their hard frozen heads jerking stiffly… Without the reptiles, the lagoons and the creeks of office blocks half-submerged in the immense heat would have had a strange dream-like beauty, but the iguanas and basilisks brought the fantasy down to earth. As their seats in the one-time board-rooms indicated, the reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life.” (Ballard 1962 p. 18)

Narrative

The narrative of this project comes from ‘The Drowned World’ of JG ballard. In the book, London has been ‘drowned’ by water which is illustrated with ‘dream-like beauty’ or ‘Eden’. However, it is different from reality. Human beings can accept the situation similarly to the way the environment does in the water covered city after the occurrence of a natural disaster.

It is possible that this environment is not a disastrous landscape. Human beings can adapt to the situation. One day, the archived image which includes the flow of London's time will be released from the platform. They will be in the confusion of current values due to realising the reality. There are two possibilities; the restoration to the past or the adherence to the present. Obviously, there is a common perception which is represented in the period. The common perception of the present can be differentiated with it from the past, due to the fact that common perception can be dissimilar according to each period. For instance, people usually see the object through their perception, which does not ‘see seeing’ but perceives something from ‘previous experience’.

Schopenhauer commented that viewing beautiful things was not only a question of all people seeing the same but was also dependent on the kind and quality of the brain which is perceiving them. (Crary 1990, p. 84)

Moreover, the interpretation of the recorded image is distinct to each individual. The image is visionary and abstract like the output which is made by the ‘Vision machine’ of Kiesler. The interpreter might try not to make the same as the landscape of the past but instead try to make the ideal city fit to the current situation. If they deny the current situation and return to the past, then they try to drain the water as in the plot of ‘The Drowned World,’ and then they will reconstruct their city according to the revealed reality. It is the middle between the past and present owing to the fact that they reside within different ideology and environment.

The system of the platform

The platform consists of the recording part and observing part. In the recording part, there will be a rolling object to which a light sensitive chemical is applied like a rolling curtain, and a supporting device.

In the recording system, due to the weather, many parts in the archived image might be absent so that it will be dependent on the interpretation of the perceiver. The dynamic change of weather and the strength of daylight have an influence on various images: clear, blur and smear. Even the speed and direction of wind can be examined.

This platform could hover in the sky as the ‘strandbeest’ of Theo Jansen. ‘Strandbeest’ is a active machine which uses wind power system.

Conclusion

In conclusion, this project has explored how the platform could archive the image visually with a pinhole, and how the information will be interpreted in the future in order to design the platform with experiments and drawings. The image from the platform might not be the image from perception, which is accumulated in memory, but the visionary image from the observer. This platform archives everyday landscape through the pinhole.

The purpose of this project is to design a hovering platform as a vision machine to record and archive the image of landscape, for the reason that it could help landscape reconstruction if or when London is submerged under water.

For the next stage, the system of the platform will be constructed through time-based drawings. In detail, the system inside the platform will be constructed visually.

Additionally, the shape of platform and more specific narrative will be attempted.

The shape of the platform

2010-06-25T06:03:00.004+01:00

Through the curvature of St Paul, London bus and Spitfire, I can get several type of the platform shape. I draw the curvature on papers, and then transformed the cuvature on the paper.

The studied perfection of the curvature

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7. ST PAUL'S AND THE SPITFIRE

certain persistent originating images emerge over and over. St paul's (not St Peter's), the Spitfire (not the Hurricane), the London Bus (the old Routemaster, not its boxy successor). To be sure, these are objects united in their Englishness, but that's not so central. More crucial is the studied perfection of their compound curvature. Webb recalls a very early fascination with Wren's resolution of the intersection of vaults, the way in which the almost weird reconciling shapes deform attempts at penetration. Webb's incision in the Henley temple dome is a related act, a simple auguring which sets an incredible sequence of events in motion, which opens up transformations of matter, space, and light. Those fascinating British machines address paradigms of perfection as well as the idea of motion and the delights of a cowled mechanism. But clearly it's the curves which attract. Webb restores to architecture a difficulty of surface, producing an ineffability of light.

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REPORT

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perspective

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Concept diagram

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context map

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Context Map

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The Hedge inside Turner's Painting in Tate Britain [Edit01]

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Locking mechanism of Henry Mound's Vista

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St. Paul through hedge

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View from Wateloo Bridge

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Stereoscope Experiment [Henry Mound's View]

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Telescope's View of Henry Mound

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Context Map

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Panorama [Richmond hill]

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Panorama [TATE Britain]

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The Hedge inside Turner's Painting in Tate Britain

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Viewpoint of the lady in painting

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relation between virtual[vermeer's painting] and actual[National Gallery] Perspective 01

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'Lady Standing at the Virginals'

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Outside of Camley Street Natural Park

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Camley Street Natural Park

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Two unique acres of wild green space right in the heart of London, this innovative and internationally acclaimed reserve on the banks of the Regent's Canal is a place for both people and wildlife.

Invert image through concave lens

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Context Map

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Floating Lens in Old St Pancras Church

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The spread image through focus on keyhole

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Origami in camera obscura 02

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Origami in camera obscura 01

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Keyhole

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Origami in the dark room

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The nature of light

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The moment when light pass the pinhole

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What is the origin of image?

I imagine the moment which the light pass the pinhole.

world through the peephole

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After Feedback

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1. Need to be directed

2. Aim

3. See Stephen Pippin

4. More rigorous and proactive

layout for crit

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Mind Map _ edit

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Through Pinhole A

Through Pinhole B

Through Pinhole A+B

Experiment 08 Through two pinhole

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I made two pinhole in different windows which is located on perpendicular wall.

each pinhole project different image.

Open Pinhole A

Open Pinhole B

Open Pinhole A & B at the same time.

Mind Map

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Experiment 07 - 03 Angle & Distance [Mixture Calibrator]

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I install two projectors with different angle.

When I see the objects in this point, circular line is not distorted. But square line is distorted.

Experiment 07 - 01 Angle & Distance [Calibrator for Perimeter]

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After doing experiment 05, I notice to need calibrator in order to check how much factor is distorted.

Circular Calibrator : It can help how it is distort.

view 0 [0'] : It is same angle with camera, pinhole and viewer.

view 1 [20'] : It is right side at around 20' from camera and pinhole

Square Calibrator : It can help to notice distance.

Experiment 06 - 02 Merging [Through two projectors]

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Through two projector[Digital source], I got similiar image with camera obscura[Analogue source].

What is different between Digital source and Analogue source?

Experiment 06 - 01 Merging [Through two pinhole]

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First pinhole is fixed. Another pinhole is reflected by mirror to wall.

The image from the real window is smaller than the image through pinhole. additonally, if I use mirror, I could expand the limitation of image.

I need to try same thing on sunny day and find another proper venue.

Experiment 05 - 02 Distance

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Revealing something.

The front medium looks like light from lighthouse.

It looks rolling with image. However, actually, the medium doesn't roll. Just moving.

This theatre has three layer. It is not hamornized.

Experiment 05 - 01 Distance [relationship in three different distance]

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relationship among layers.

Experiment 04 - 01 Speed [illusion from speed In False Theatre]

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I made false theatre in order to get hint about relationship of space.

inside of curtain

outside of curtain

Trying to distort image with different speed.

What kind relation they share each other?

Having Tactics

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Relationship Inside and outside image.

In order to know relationship between interior and exterior,

What is proper calibrator in my works?

1. Speed

2. Distance

3. Angle

4. Merge

Interaction between camera obscura image and the editimage from medium through the time

2009-11-24T04:20:00.011Z

Interaction between the original image of camera obscura and the edit image which are drawn through the moving medium.

I put mediums which are different size, speed and direction.

When the number of mediums is filled with the wall, I cannot notice the original image from the camera obscura.

Anish Kapoor

2009-11-23T09:14:00.004Z

His works could be really helpful. How I can think about my topic and what kind calibrator I need.

Link

Limestone false door of Ptahshepses

2009-11-23T05:30:00.005Z

The ancient Egyptians believed that the false door is the gate between the world of the living and the dead

If this wall is the gate between the world of the living and the dead, I could see new world like illusion.

About False door

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Mummy of Artemidorus in painted stucco case

2009-11-21T01:09:00.014Z

This mummy case is distinguished from traditional Egyptian one.

When I saw this the first time, I thought that it could be one of Roman ruler. I was completely wrong.

A portrait panel has been inserted at the head of the case. Obviously, the owner of this coffin might be a Greek people. However, he looks like a Roman people. Moreover, the portrait panel is inserted at the Egyptian style case. I think these are really strange points owing to the fact that absolutely he might be a person in power. If he were not, he could not use this coffin. In the period, Egypt was under Romans rule. I cannot find the trace of owner's nationality without name of owner.

Why was this made like this style?

A mixture of cultural influences

'This mummy represents an excellent example of the merging of cultural influences: a Greek personal name, a Roman-style portrait, together with traditional Egyptian funerary practices.'

More Information

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Experiment 03 - 05 [trying to distort image] camera obscura

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Experiment 03 - 04 [trying to distort image] camera obscura

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I try to know the interaction between exterior and interior. I try to distort the image from exterior.

Experiment 03 - 03 [Mutating exterior and interior image through the time] Camera Obscura

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The image of extrior mutates interior image. The color of exterior is absorbed by wall, pillows and all the other stuff.

Experiment 03 - 02 [Sunrise _ Camera Obscura]

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Sunrise between pillows

This is a artificial place made by me. Even though I expected some specific scene, these scenes were not controlled by me. The only way to get the proper image is waiting.

That is to say, it is instant images by contingency. I didn’t know what kind of images I could get.

2009-11-17T06:54:00.023Z

The interaction between inside space and outside space.

Generally, this exterior image could be got when I stand in the room toward a window. Thanks to the pinhole, the image of exterior is projected to interior space.

Exterior coexists with interior. Moreover, it makes new image. Interior experiences exterior and change.

1. The Coexistence of exterior and interior.

2. The interaction between exterior and interior.

Experiment 03 - 01 [Camera Obscura]

2009-11-17T04:36:00.004Z

Something is wrong. the quality of image is quite bad. It might be the size of pinhole. I need to try variety size of pinhole.

Experiment 02 [Trace of the light]

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Experiment 02 [Air Street through Pinhole Camera]

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I took pictures on the air street with pinhole camera. The different speed makes a different illusion and trace. The trace of people look like a shadow and

Experiment 02 [test image from Pinhole Camera]

2009-11-15T06:02:00.002Z

The double exposure of pinhole camera

Experiment Plan [Camera Obscura & Pinhole Camera]

2009-11-13T15:24:00.002Z

I plan to carry out an experiment on Camera Obscura.

Firstly, I'll make two Pinhole Cameras. One could be a analog camera for the double exposure. Another will be a digital pinhole camera.

Secondly, I am going to make a dark room as camera obscura because my previous same experiment was fail on last week.

Camera Obscura

2009-11-12T12:34:00.002Z

Work on 2nd week

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Air Street 2nd panorama

2009-11-05T10:57:00.000Z

Air Street is composed by layers. people, cars...

Experience 02 in Air Street

2009-11-04T11:47:00.000Z

I am just standing in front of Air Street. I stare Air Street only.

Thanks to the factors, I could have different view and experience about Air Street. Each factor has different speed, direction and size.

Curtain

2009-11-04T02:20:00.000Z

by gettyimage

Experience 01 in Air Street [Curtain, Layer and Corridor]

2009-11-04T00:44:00.000Z

Between me and Air street, there are too many layer.

Firstly, wire entanglements, 3 lane for car and many people...

Even though it is made by over 100 photographs, It looks simple.