Monday, April 26, 2010






The project that I am proposing is for a room with windows that overlooks the Mira Costa campus in Oceanside. I chose to impose inspirational photos upon the different square windows in this particular room that is overlooking the campus. I wanted to add color and inspiring images to these windows because I think it will bring a feeling of creativity and ambition to those students and faculty members that happen to be viewing them. I chose to do this because it seems that there is a lack of not only color within the design of the Oceanside campus, but a lack of emphasis upon art and the creativity and passion that it has the power of evoking in students. I thought that maybe if we were to create more of an environment of creative learning through art, then maybe students and faculty members would find that coming to school is a more enjoyable learning experience on the whole.
I found inspiration for this project by browsing through the Stuart Collection. The work that I found particularly impressionable was the work of John Baldessari. His work at the UCSD library was very interesting and innovative. At the entrance to the Geisel Library (where he did his work on READ/WRITE/THINK/DREAM) is comprised of a wall of eight ten-foot high glass panels flanking two pairs of automatic sliding doors. Onto each of these panels Baldessari placed photographic images of UCSD students standing atop a row of shelved books. In doing this.."they became part of the architectural structure – like a Greek temple using the figures as columns, the books as their bases."

-Alicia Morgan

15 comments:

  1. incrediably creativity. that is such a good idea. the windows are a perfect place because people are always looking out the window.

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  2. Nice! I like how you added a few simple color blocks to juxtipose with the photos. - Youness

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  3. Cool-It looks like stained glass. Maybe you could include a faint reflection on the wall to make it look more realistic. Nice work.
    Chris Locke

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  4. I like the use of different images, instead of using just one images. They have the feel of some type of laminate window art. Nicely done.
    Jimmy Maldonado

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  5. This is a very unique proposal. It has a great mix of colors and I, too, like the simple color blocks interspersed with the photo-windows. - Ginni Kitchen

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  6. I love the mix of nature in with man-made objects. It makes you think about how there is beauty in all things.
    - Rebecca Broberg

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  7. I think you have a great idea to use imagines on glass. I really like how you used different elements too.

    Summer Birdsill

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  8. Pretty sweet. you got some skills.
    Michael Jennings

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  9. Very unique how not only did you use the inside of a room but used the windows! This is so cool because the people in the room can see it and also the people outside looking up. Great idea!

    -HARRY H

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  10. Colored glass is so amazing to me and so the way your designed this is so nice. -Susan Pastoriza

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  11. This would be really fun. The light in the room would be so cool because of all the colored windows. -Jessica Fuller

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  12. way to think outside the box.
    rachel brown

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