Vertigo - a standing design, diagonal, nearly vertical. Also named for a shade of green used in the design - Verdigris - a pigment derived from fast tracking the patina of copper.
This design is for my peers, to give them the best of both standing and sitting. To help in the long term to prevent the strain they suffer be leaning over desks, poor posture and not having enough workspace to spread out. Vertigo has two zones - a tall surface to attach pages up to A1 and a worktop to place any materials, work and present ideas.
During this project, I have mostly been influenced by Gerrit Rietveld and his exploration into De Stijl. In his "Red Blue" chair he followed the rules of the movement but still incorporated himself into the piece using diagonal lines. De Stijl was about stripping art back to the fundamental basics with the exclusive use of primary colours, vertical and horizontal lines. The "Red Blue" chair challenges this by having a tilted seat and slanted back rest, presumable to add to the user's comfort. His "Schroeder" table on the other hand abides by the rules of the movement and explores planes on another level by directly including perpendicular elements throughout. These are both seen to be demonstrated in GROEN and Vertigo.
The "De Stijl (number 1, volume 1)" manifesto's cover is green, ironically ignoring the use of principle colours. Therefore I chose green to be a main feature in my designs. It is rooted in the history of the De Stijl movement whether it was an accident or not.
The "Schroeder" House has also influenced the designs of both GROEN and Vertigo due to Rietveld's use of plane adaptation in the real world: the interior walls moving to suit the client's needs. The house was originally designed for a mother and her three children, it had to grow with the family and adapt to their daily routines. I look to delving further into the moving walls/partitions for the "screen" aspect of the project.
Another architect that used a familiar approach with planes is Mies van der Rohe in the Barcelona Pavilion and Farnsworth House. Similar in where he used vertical planes to suggest divisions between areas without closing them off entirely; and the use of horizontal planes in Farnsworth to delineate spaces without the use of opaque walls. A tactic I'd like to play with as the project continues.
Vertigo is an intervention which takes elements from two different "tables" and marries them to form one. It questions where a table, and an easel meet and if an easel itself is a table as they share defining qualities.
To encourage my thought process, I have made a small mood board including some focal points of the project and inspirational triggers (shown in video above), like a small model of different planes. I have kept a subtle "1, 2, 3" theme throughout this process; splitting the chair into three planes, three green colours and so on. I will be keeping this up to continue the narrative.
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