team l: andrea, ipek, maria

Perception of the space by hearing was our primary focus. How do we perceive the space, while trying to forget about all the visual and tactile information. When thinking about the recording it might be compared to taking picture. But the recording (or the picture) is very static and represents the only focus. In order to achieve comprehensive idea of space the recording collage has to be made.
We started with the study of physical properties of the sound as a wave. That led us to think about the sound features such as echo and masking of the sounds. As a result small guessing game took place during out first presentation. The result was: the action in the space inform us about the characteristics of the space, while the action is the only we can make the conclusion very fast. On the other hand, when echo and masking started to play the role it caused the partial desorientation.
Our final product was split into two parts, both related to Ghent and both collages as well. First one is a starting point of sound so-called postcards. The recordings were made on different spots in the city, not necessary the most representative ones. How is the Ghent city today? Indisputably, under construction . The language people talk, the street sounds – are people load or more calm, buskers at the market place, etc. Our postcard is sort of collage made of sound pictures merged in one piece. What if we could really such a postcards? The main difference with the traditional on would be that these would really show what does the city looks alike. (And the best thing is that you may do it yourself, as the message you want to introduce).
Secondly we tried to record the same action in different places. Steps sound differently with the relation to the space you are (narrow street, big square, etc). Furthermore the symbols of the city of Ghent are three towers. If you live close to them, you can know the bell song by heart. So how do thess sounds vary depending on the shape of the space? The second project is a city walk, made through the main square, as a collage of the steps (the sound produced by the action placed on the same spot as recording was done) and ringing bells (as a sound propagated through the air from the medium that does not change its position, what changes is the place of recordings).
Enjoy!

postcard

walk

TEAM M

The ugly space

From my point of view there is no way to conquest the space, cause space is something metaphysical. Although we have opportunities to alive space. My interest went to alive spaces that we are not really aware of being there, or more concrete “hidden spaces”. The city-life inspired me zooming into the “ugly” spaces,  space people try to avoid or try to hide.It was my aim try to rethink this lost spaces in a way that it will attract people, moreover make people curious as opposed to aversion.

maarten verhelst

Balance on the Architecture rope

The question here is: “What is a space?” “What means it?”
First our approach was to look for the little part who define a space. We saw there is two different spaces, two “startpoint” spaces: architectural space and more “emotional” space. That is interesting to see the evolution to the crosspoint of those two spaces.
Our goal was not to directly build those two spaces because everyone feel a space in his own way. There is a connection between space and man. And here with this experiment we wanted to give the same sensation like we go inside an architectural/emotional space and between them. The distance between both space is sometime close, sometime higher. It is not easy to stay balanced on the rope that binds these two worlds.

Joris Cauwenbergh and Gaëtan Pakdaman

Het moiré-effect

Groep D, bestaande uit Line Beernaert, Isaline De Witte en Delphine Houthoofd, zijn vertrokken vanuit de principes van het moiré-effect. Twee verschillende layers, voorzien van eenzelfde patroon, worden over elkaar geschoven waardoor de eerst statische lijnen nu een boeiend schouwspel vormen van beweging en dynamiek. Hierbij maakten we gebruik van 2 diaprojectoren, 2 draaischijven en 2 dia’s voorzien van ijzeren gaasjes en kleurenfilters.

groep f Jenthe Blancquaert en Charline Boks

jenthe en charline_presentatie van team2

Space & Perception | Team J | T. Van Verdeghem & J. Stevens

Space & Perception | Team J: J.Stevens & T. Van Verdeghem

OUTPUT: Grapgical panels, no tools needed

LOCATION: Res. Zwarte Zusterstraat, Specific room to be announced later

Stereoscopic Imaging

As a starting point we took the work team 13 produced.

They worked with claustrophobia so that’s where we started off aswell.

Another imput in our research was stereoscopic imaging, as it is a great way to create a 3d space on a simple 2d suface.

We tried to marry these 2 together, maybe finding a solution to solve claustrophobia with the use of stereoscopic imaging.

First we made some tests if we could really create a deep 3d space with these images. (photo’s of city and house views, red-blue 3d glasses are required to see them)

We can all asume an elevator is a claustrophobic space, so with the use of stereoscopic images we’d like to make the small elevator look a lot bigger, so people don’t get these cramped feelings anymore.

For the display of our work we need an elevator, 3d glasses and perhaps a beamer + laptop to display our research in Cubicconverter.

The elevator is allready taken care of, we will use the one in the Hoogstraat. We’ll provide 3d glasses aswell as the required laptop. For the beamer we would use the one in our regular classroom, or the one on the ground floor in the computer class (if this would be easier). The research can also be presented on e regular laptop. We would also like some time to set up the project.

Maarten Baert, Servaas Vertongen, Yannick Bode

eindpresentatie pieter rubens en wouter philippe

-we hebben verdergewerkt op team2 (team met gezichtsbedrog en filters)

-WAT? onderzoek naar onderverdeling (subdivision) van de ruimte. Naar voorbeeld van de kubussen van barak architecten zijn we verder gaan nadenken om een kubusruimte te gaan onderverdelen op een organische manier, niet meer met de klassieke kubus maar via voronoi structuren. We bepalen zelf waar en hoe groot de voronoicel moet zijn. In voorgaande posts hebben we een kubus van 36 voronoi cellen gepost. We vroegen ons af hoe het zou zijn als je in zo een cel zou staan en vandaaruit kan kiezen om in een andere cel te gaan staan en dan weer een andere zodat je op je eigen manier doorheen de kubus beweegt.

Het volgende zou zijn als we ons filter en patroononderzoek zouden nemen en deze op de vlakken van de voronoi cellen zouden plaatsen zodat een vertekend beeld gecreëerd wordt en je enkel ziet wat de filter je toelaat om te zien.

-HOE? benodigdheden voor onze presentatie: beamer, computer, filterbrillekes (voor de computer en de brillekes zorgen wij)

-WAAR? het mag voor ons in het lokaal gepresenteerd worden waar we altijd zitten, zolang er maar een beamer is.

voronoi patronen

de bedoeling was net zoals bij team2 van vorig jaar patronen ontwikkelen en dan te werken met filters. We wilden zelf de patronen creëeren en dat ze iets met onze eindkubus te maken hadden. vandaar de keuze om via voronoi deze patronen te ontwikkelen. In deze post ook al een beeld wat het geeft als je de verschillende voronoipatronen met elkaar laat overlappen.