Unit 4: In-Depth Assignment

This topic of landscape was a very rich topic which we covered so many different sub-topics. One of the things that stuck to me was the idea of architecture and landscape for humans (which was my group for the outside Cultural Center activity). We make buildings to comfort our needs. I thought of making a building that was living like a human on its own. A concept of all that we create for our needs making it all human, we take over. I chose to use silicone as an organic skin like material that also resembles like organs and the inside of mammals bodies. There are veins all around the body which lead and connect to different parts like paths of our bodies. The top is a brain like system where the audio is coming out. I created the audio by putting together all the different kinds of white noise I deal with daily. For example lots of construction, cars, traffic, people screaming at each other and so on. I also put in the sound of swallowing to poke at the idea of it being a living building, architecture of humans. All of the sounds are caused by human movement including my own movement through the city to hear these noises. The audio loops and has many things that should be listed to closely because since it is all mixed into each other like a song, you can not hear things prominently. I wanted to make a protective cover in which you could still experience everything, an out skin that allowed the viewer to see in. There is aspects of a building drawn on the clear vinyl to remind the viewer that it is a building with life inside and living on its own. It is its own living landscape.