Tuesday, August 19, 2008

equus

another story of Boris Popescu

Boris got the telegram saying that uncle Nicolai has passed away.

He was a stingy miserly geezer who lived quite a frugal life. Only in the coldest of winter he light the fireplace. As a result of that he left quite substantial assets behind for his only nephew Boris including the apartment where Boris lived in.

As the situation of Boris has drastically improved he thought of changing the entire apartment because he suffered enough from claustrophobia caused by the "cursed column", he decided to buy the adjacent land so he could build a spacious and comfortable apartment.

Having been brought up to in a superstitious religious environment he thought first to ask the god before making any decisions. In his search for an answer he stumbled over the intriguing name of an architect called Gartenfeld.

After an extended waiting time Gartenfeld was always busy and unavailable which gave Boris the confidence that she must be the right one he managed to have an appointment with Gartenfeld.

To his surprise the architect turned out to be totally different than he imagined being small build Japanese. In his bewilderment he tried to make sense between the appearance and the name Gartenfeld.

"Well, Gartenfeld it is a translation of my Japanese surname into English....."

Anyway, Gartenfeld decided that it would be best to demolish the whole building and start with a new design. They got the approval for the new development. However while they were constructing the building site the council discovered that there was one missing street lamp on Boris's property.

It was by law public property and therefore could not be removed. The contrary it needed to be upgraded to the new standard of street lighting with a bigger reinforced pole.

Gartenfeld had no choice than to incorporate the pole again into the building except this time it ended up being in the middle of the lounge room. Initially Gartenfeld was a little concerned about the presence of this massive object but realized that this was actually enhancing the dreams of her client.

The most priceless piece of Boris's inheritance was the taxidermy animal head, the proud hunting trophy from his uncle Nicolai. The pole in the center of the house would become the main feature to hang up the animal head on ropes,as it was illegal to drell holes into the publicly owned lamp pole.

He lived happy ever after and did no longer suffer from claustrophobia.

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Design 1 "rib" has developed with his personal appearance being skinny and pale. It contains the rib pattern throughout the building.




























Design 2 "Röntgen" has  developed again with the rib pattern however, it is with a different approach. Röntgen was a German physicist who detected x-rays.






































Design 3 is a sketch up model of him being a superstitious religious character. According to my research the natural design has a system that creates a pattern with certain regularity including, balance and harmony.

The façade of this design contains the pattern of Pythagoras definition.



























Design 4 has developed with a triangle shape however, this time all the elements were set on the exterior and interior playfully.





















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