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Heating

One of the most common heating systems in the Western World is the HVAC. There are also other systems, such as geothermal heating, furnaces, and radiators. While the Korean system, ondol, strictly heats the floor from below, HVAC units can be placed in the ceiling or basement with a series of ducts running through the space to heat individual rooms.

The Ancient Roman heating system, hypocausts, was a two-foot deep area beneath the main floor which allowed fire to travel, heating the floor from below. The Korean heating system, ondol, moved the heat and smoke from the kitchen area to other areas of the space through underground flues. One main similarity between the hypocaust and the ondol heating systems is the use of an underground space to heat the living area floors above.

Ondol

HVAC

Hypocaust

Infinity

The Infinity Room, an art installation designed by Doug Wheeler, is "like walking into a cloud of milk." The space is focused on physical space and how humans interact within it, using a full-day cycle of light (annotated to a short 32 minutes) to highlight the experience. Wheeler is able to control the light by composing the room to be devoid of corners.
The author of the piece, Tyler Green, went to the exhibit to experience it for himself. He said he entered the space when it was in the 'mid morning' sensation of light, it was composed of pinks and purples, but once he looked away he could see black spots due to the bright light. Then the space became so bright that his eyes began to play tricks on him, and soon he was squinting to the point of tears. By the end of his experience, Green wrote “One of the greatest experiences ever. Feel privileged to have been in it.”
Personally, I feel as though I would really dislike this installation. Maybe it's because I'm from Seattle and I am used to gloomy, grey, and cloudy surroundings. Such intense bright lights would not be something I would want to sign up for, especially since I have to live with the awful "prison lights" inside of Kirwan Tower, which I complain relentlessly about.
This space teaches me that although I personally prefer softer lighting, others can find an array of bright to soft lighting to be exceptionally helpful to their daily lives. Natural light has the ability to control how our bodies function and without it we suffer greatly.

Suburbia

For my object/space/building/place assignment, I focused on suburban houses. I originally wanted to do Italianate architecture, but then I remembered we had to focus on the 1950's to now (instead of yknow, the 1850s, in which case Italianate would have totally worked).

For details, I chose vinyl windows. They are crucial it seems to the contemporary suburban home. Economical and energy efficient, vinyl windows are a smart addition.

What suburban home is complete without some heavy, dark, La-Z-Boy furniture and Home Goods decor and beige walls?

This is a perfect example of a suburban home. Two car garage, vinyl siding, faux shutters, dormers, perfectly manicured green lawn, and a picture-perfect mailbox.

Another great example of a suburban street. American cars, wide streets for kids to play on, and houses that are all the same distance from the road. Classic!

Palladio

Palladio influenced Western architecture by heavily borrowing from Ancient Rome. He was the first to make residential architecture draw upon religious architecture. Palladio also popularized the aesthetic of buildings with the same facade on each side, and he used columns for decoration instead of support.

Rose Window

Rose Window: pretty,

detailed, encapsulating,

colorful. Rose Window

Columns

For my column compositions, I printed images that I thought showed how important and interesting columns are. Besides being an architectural detail, they are used as support. I also wanted to show the detailing in each, especially since there is such a range from simpler (Doric) to incredibly ornate (Corinthian).
Another detail I added was in the title, as each column name has an 'i' in it, I drew it to look similar to the column on that page.
I am also interested in exploring how the three columns have influenced the other columns and post that we see today. You can see similarities in many, but I will definitely be looking into it more.

[ no photo because I turned my compositions in ]