Living Cubicals
Projection Mapping, 3D Modelling
November 28, 2015
Concept
Fully inspired by David Hockney and the ideas of the Cubism, small boxes were built into a big 'mountain' as a projection space. Each box can be a separate space, while the mountain itself is an irregular colossus. And this is to imitate the way today's Hong Kong residential apartments stacked together.
Separation can bring possibilities, while segmentation can even bring more imagination. In Hockney's collage, he divided a picture into different parts. However, they are not perfectly combined together. The disorderly and unsystematic feeling makes viewers to think about the segmentation and the recombination. This gives a new life to the original picture as it is actually the same one but with a lot more enjoyment and interestingness. I tried to apply this concept in my work to add more possibilities to the 3D scanned places.
Walk through
In the projection, I chose five different sites from remote islands in Hong Kong. Living in the big cities for such a long time, I have always been feeling that i've got the instinct to run away from the crowded urban area. And here in Hong Kong, those small islands are the ideal places for me to visit in the spare time, meditating and getting some fresh air.
The places chosen share some common peculiarities. They are all stark and lonely, which may be abandoned for a long time, others may be too remote for people to reach. However, we can still feel the very traditional Hong Kong architectural aesthetic perception.
Overview
In the beginning and the ending of the animation. I used all the boxes as separate places to show the diversity of the places. Each box presents its own space, which as a whole, they have a little blinking effect.
The second part is about segmentation. One space is cut into twelve parts, not fully related to the neighbour one. It can be considered as one space overall, but can also be seen as twelve different spaces. They move at the same time or scattered, as if they are trying to move into the correct position. However, they ended up into abstract laser-like lines and centralised into one small box in the middle.
The collaboration of the models created nonexistent places, bringing together the irrelevant architectures. Temples in the middle of a pathway, cabins above the water, abandoned restaurant in an eccentric factory, they were bizarre and motley, surreal enough to arouse people's imagination.