Friday, May 2, 2008

Edward Hopper

" A married socialite requires a surreptitious void to rendezvous with her lover"



Concept




The main concept from this project was the symbolism of a complete circle - UNITY. The image above represents the female figure within the painting; she feels fulfilled only when she has both her husband and her lover. To discard either of the two entities would create an incomplete circle and therefore the woman would remain uncontent and feel broken.

My design aims to encorporate these separate yet interconnected peices to create an architecture that although vital as a whole, individually they are at unease within eachothers presence - a tension between the two shapes reminiscent of the tension within the painting.

Functionally the married space must be in a prime position, possibly incorporating a sense of monument, to portray the married couples public, socialite life. While the affair must be kept underwraps, away from the light of day. The lover may know about the husband but the husband must be sheilded from the lover. Their should also be a sense of journey to reach the rendezvous, secrecy is difficult to maintain.
















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