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| CLARENCE HOTEL BY NORMAN FOSTER |
What drew me into this section of the Clarence
Hotel by Norman Foster was the horizontal depth of the image, achieved through
combining a section cut with a perspective shot as well as effective shadowing.
This section also incorporates real photographs of the existing context and
neighbouring buildings which allows a better sense of what the building would
look like in its proposed context.
The main heroic space of the building is
coloured and secondary spaces are left white and shadowed creating an
effective contrast. The use of colours through a gradient (in case this, dark
drawing up into light), in the heroic space guides the views eyes up the image
and creates vertical depth. This vertical depth is further emphasised by the
perspective aspect of the shot. The eye level of the viewer is placed at ground
level making lower levels appears lower and higher levels appear even higher,
adding to the quality of the section. As my building is longer than it is
tall, I think it will be difficult to emulate this vertical depth however, I liked
Foster’s contrasting effect between
private and public space, high traffic and low traffic spaces and hope to bring
aspects of this into my drawings.
People and objects are also placed numerously
throughout the section. However, through the use of transparency, we are able
to gauge which spaces of the building are perhaps private or public, service or
significant spaces. I think this use of transparency will help in my portrayal
of different spatial relationships in my proposed building.
REFERENCE
Foster + Partners. (2008). Clarence Hotel, Dublin, Ireland [Image]. Retrieved from http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10121&q=clarence
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