SEMIOTICS OF OPTICAL ILLUSIONS IN COMMUNICATION AND RECREATION PUBLIC SPACES

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
Yulia Sergeevna VORONTSOVA
Keyword(s):  
Public Spaces ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Modern Design ◽  
Optical Illusions ◽  
Visual Metaphors ◽  
Optical Effects ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The purpose of this article is to examine the optical illusions as visual metaphors in architecture and design of public spaces. Metaphor, in this case, is defined as a key element in the interpretation of meaning and visual images. In the article the semiotic significance of optical illusions in the context of contemporary architecture and design is examined and the correlation between the optical illusions classification by resources and the interpretation of signs and symbols of perception optical effects is revealed. The article gives examples of use of optical illusions in communicative field of public spaces demonstrating the importance of semiotic meaning of optical effects in modern design.

PROBLEMS OF FUNCTIONAL APPROACH IN MODERN DESIGN CULTURE

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-50
Author(s):  
E. V TABAEVA
Keyword(s):  
Functional Approach ◽  
Design Engineering ◽  
Modern Design ◽  
Design Culture ◽  
Project Culture ◽  
Architecture And Design

The problems arising from the dominance of the functional approach to architecture and design engineering are viewed. The views of contemporary architects and designers on the issue are analysed. Arts ignoring as one of the causes of the crisis of project culture is presented.

scholarly journals National and international components in contemporary architecture and design

2021 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Aleksandrina Mikhailova ◽  
Sergey Mikhailov ◽  
Lilia Khousnutdinova ◽  
Anastasia Ibragimova ◽  
Maksim Belov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Object Based ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The article examines one of the unique aspects of design – the national component. The history of design demonstrates to us the importance of the national component in the formation of object-based shaping, its development in the industrial and post-industrial eras. In the conditions of post-industrial design, the role of the national component is growing and is increasingly revealed in its various directions, from object design to design of the urban environment. Through the prism of the interaction between national and international components in design, we can scrutinise design’s entire history. Using specific examples, applying phenomenal-geographical and synergetic approaches, the authors formulate the main models of the evolution of the national component in the design of different countries. As a result, 6 models of interaction of the national and international components in the subject design of the twentieth century were identified. They are «the constant of the national component», «transformation (expansion) of the national component into the international», «synchronization of the national and international components», «replacement of the national component with the international», «conglomeration of international and national components», «autonomy of national and international components». Graphic visualizations of models of countries – design nations are presented on the example of Japan, USA, Germany, Italy and Scandinavia.

«ENVIRONMENTAL ATTRACTIONS» IN PUBLIC SPACES

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia S. VORONTSOVA
Keyword(s):  
Structural Organization ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Optical Illusions ◽  
Emotional Perception

The article discusses the role of environmental attractions in the structural organization in public spaces such as shopping malls. Environmental attractions being a participant of public spaces formation with other objects, affect people’s artistic and emotional perception of space. In illustration of these attractions optical illusions are standing out. The author explores the examples of existing environmental attractions and concludes that the introduction of environmental attractions with optical illusions requires the identification of specific steps and conditions of designing environmental attractions as the architectural and spatial forms in large shopping centers.

scholarly journals Understanding the Value of Travel: Study Abroad Program in Barcelona

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo Cerro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Walking Tour ◽  
Interdependent System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Study Abroad Program ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The City

than the ones the students is accustomed to, are all some of the outcomes of participating in a study abroad program. Understanding the value of travel, our college started a study abroad program two years ago. Currently preparing for our third semester in Barcelona, we have been assessing what has worked and what has not so we can adapt and evolve to keep the program fresh and relevant. This paper will cover our pedagogy and process, the type of classes we taught and the reasons behind them but more than anything, the way it has changed the participating students when compared to those who have not participated in a program of this type. The semester was divided into four courses: ARC394-Places and Culture, was designed to function as a walking tour of the city of Barcelona, where the students learned on the go by visiting sites following a chronological history of the city that took place throughout the semester. ARC494-Contemporary Architecture Practice, took place in both the classroom and by visiting contemporary architecture sites. The course was taught by EMBT (Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue) as an opportunity for the students to learn the design thinking and process behind the main project of a working architectural firm as they take an idea from sketch to construction. ARC581-Contemporary Spanish Architecture, offered the student the opportunity to visit: Seville, Cordoba, Granada, Bilbao, Madrid, Figueres and Olot on walking tours covering the history of these locations from an architectural and design perspective from antiquity to modernity. And finally, ARC501-401, a vertical design studio where the student was able to bring all the classes together to design a project in the city of Barcelona, putting to the test, how their experiences influenced their designs. All of these courses where designed to work together creating an interdependent system that allowed the participants to learn through experiencing architecture and design, while being able to implement that newly learned design knowledge into site and cultural specific design projects.

scholarly journals Mindscapes in Contemporary Architecture - Colors of Creativity

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 4184-4189
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
Material Usage ◽  
Gore Vidal ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

“Style is knowing what you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”-Gore Vidal The paper attempts to define the various mindscapes in Contemporary architecture and design. What is style? Who are the icons who patronized it? This paper aims to create a chronological journey using the visual medium to establish the position of color in design. Color has subtly played an essential role in defining style by the use of it; the absence of it; or simply by its inherent existence in the material usage. A journey through Contemporary Architecture and design highlights moments of hi-style, where icons created fashion statements, sometimes colorful, sometimes colorless, but nonetheless of impact. The following aims to inspire and initiate some creative cycles that endorse more Style Statements.

scholarly journals Fragments: A Poetic Approach To Place-Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Lishak
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Critical Regionalism ◽  
A Site ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The notion of regional particularity and sensitivity to place remains in constant struggle with the persistent autonomous approach evident in most contemporary architecture, which under the pressures of globalization has paved the path toward commodification and the creation of universal non-places. Meanwhile the decline of craftsmanship within architecture and the perpetual emphasis on visual images and iconic forms continues to undermine human connection to the built environment. The use of Fragments in architectural design involves a distinct understanding of perception of space that takes its theoretical basis in the communicative and situational character of Synthetic Cubism and Picturesque Landscape theory. Brought into an architectural context, these theories work in contrast to the rational approach based on proportion and perspectival imagery, bringing focus towards the experience of the body moving through space with emphasis on the poetics of construction, materiality, corporeal experience, and details that express craftsmanship, meaning, and emotion. Guided by Kenneth Frampton’s theory of Critical Regionalism with the aim of resisting placelessness, the nature of such tectonic articulation is informed by the context and specificity of a site.

scholarly journals Monumentality, Counter-monumentality, and Political Authority in Post-socialist Albania

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-187
Author(s):  
Raino Isto
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
The Past ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Design Firms ◽  
Architecture And Design

Abstract This article examines the role that monumentality—and efforts to critique it—have played in shaping the experience of public space in post-socialist Albania. It considers artistic and architectural strategies often labeled ‘counter-monumental’ because they were first developed as a way to challenge authoritarian and nationalist monumental structures from the past, and it argues that in Albania these counter-monumental strategies have become wedded to centralized state power. In the conditions of neoliberal capitalism, projects that aim to undo traditional monumentality can effectively obfuscate political agendas. In Albania, where Edi Rama—the current Prime Minister—is also a practicing artist, the discourses of contemporary art have served to increase the centralization of political authority, and the work of architecture and design firms such as the Brussels-based group 51N4E have reinforced the symbolic power of the state at the same time that they claim to open public spaces up for citizen participation.

scholarly journals Music – Bodies – Machines

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Martine Louise Rossiter
Keyword(s):  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Compositional Process ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Visual Metaphors ◽  
Internal Structures ◽  
Acousmatic Music ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Formal Design

This article provides an overview of the Music – Bodies – Machines: Fritz Kahn and Acousmatic Music project and accompanying suite of music – Der Industriepalast.  The project is inspired by the work of infographics pioneer Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) who developed works such as Der Mensch als Industriepalast. There is a body of work examining Kahn’s work (Sappol, 2017; Von Debschitz, 2017; Doudova, Jacobs, et al.) that has revealed Kahn’s intent of making the human anatomy accessible to the non-specialised reader through visual metaphors; unlike the descriptive anatomical illustrations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which show how the human body looks, Kahn’s works visually explain how internal structures work using concepts, metaphors, and allusions. This article explores some of the ways in which Kahn’s striking visual images have inspired the composition of five novel acousmatic works of music.  The article starts with a survey of existing works making use of similar, extra-musical influences to examine how extra-musical influences such as infographics and painting may influence the formal design of acousmatic music.  It goes on to consider how, exactly, the infographics of Fritz Kahn have been used within the project.  In some cases, this guides the choice of particular materials (such as the sound of a beating heart to represent an image of a heart monitor), but in other cases, there is influence on phrasing, placement, and even the formal design of entire pieces. Taken as a whole, the article seeks to explore the following questions; 1) What impact does the context of a particular image have on a composers’ response? 2) How do composers respond to visual stimuli in acousmatic music?  What is their compositional process? 3) How do such parallels between the specific sonic and visual examples offer new interdisciplinary insight to artistic practices and research? 4) How do sound recording techniques inform acousmatic music and generate new creative processes that operate within the sphere of human-machine relations?

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS IN INTERIOR DESIGN OF PUBLIC SPACES

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Tatyana Vladimirovna KARAKOVA ◽  
Yulia Sergeevna VORONTSOVA
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Optical Illusions ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function

The article analyzes the history of op-art in design and function of optical illusions in the interior design of public spaces in a context of мodern design. Features of human perception of plane and spatial fi gures in environmental design ake also viewed.

Interakcje z architekturą. Społeczne sprawstwo zabudowy

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (52) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Magdalena Łukasiuk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Segregation ◽  
Architecture And Design

The article describes the role of urban design in the theoretical prospect of the sociology of architecture. I argue that the architecture and design select people (user and tenants) using aesthetic parameter. The process of social segregation as a result of gentrification and modernization is often hidden behind the discourse around design and serves the contemporary elites. I present the point of view elaborated by Project for Public Spaces as an example of place-centered (and not design-centered) approach.

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