Design I: Gravity Wall

*the height of the lower cantilevered volume is proportioned to just above a person's height.
 
Gravity Wall.
1.5 Weeks
instructor: Ely Merheb


Defining the concept of a 'wall' through dissecting the definition of gravity: 1. the force which attracts things towards the earth and causes them to fall to the ground; 2.heaviness or weight; 3. serous or critical nature; 4. dignity, solemnity, importance; 5. grave consequence.

The wall I created in Design I was a wall, not because it fulfilled the typical notion of a wall and what we understand that to be, it was a wall because a person wouldn't want to pass through it. It was a barrier, dividing space. 1. The cantilevered volumes defied the first definition of gravity. 2. The layers and scale of the volumes fulfilled the second definition. 4. The nature of the composition and materials (stone and wood) answered the fourth definition of gravity. 3., 5. The third and fifth definitions of gravity were what made the sculpture a wall. The types of things that passed through your mind if you were to step into/under/through the wall.