FINAL SUBMISSION

EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967)
Eleven a.m (1926)
oil on canvas 71.3 x 91.6cm

NARRATIVE:
looking into the future, bad things are going to happen

FINAL DESIGN

stairs= time

platforms= four stages in her life

1. childhood

2. teenager

3. adult

4. elderly

windows= allow light into the building

light= good life (in the painting, she is sitting on a chair enjoying the light on her skin)

benches= on each each platform is a chair which allows her to sit down and look out the window (similar to the painting)

Starting at the bottom on ground floor, she walks up the stairs until she arrives to the first platform, where she sits down and looks out the window, letting the light touch her skin.

As she continues up the stairs, she reaches the next platform where the platform, seat and window are smaller then the previous one. The smaller window on the platform allows less light in then the previous one symbolising that life is slowly fading away. As she reaches the third platform, there is less light and the seat becomes smaller making it harder to be comfortable, emphasising that bad things are going to happen or are slowly occurring from when she started walking up the stairs. After walking up the next set of the stairs, she arrives to the smallest window in the space, with not much light coming through. Also there is no chair present, making the experience of the journey harder.

After reaching the final platform, she notices that there are still more stairs and continues on her journey but realises that the stairs do not lead anywhere, there is no more light symbolising that life is over and that bad things have occurred.

DRAWINGS

Through my drawings, I wanted to show that as she walks up the stairs, the spaces get darker and darker.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

SECTION

MODEL

SITE

INFLUENCES

DESIGN TWO

After feedback from my tutor, my initial design and narrative wasn't going too far and suggested that the more out there the narrative is, a broader range of designs can happen.

looking at the painting again, I realised that the painting was done in 1926, three years before The Great Depression so I took that and came up with this as my new narrative.

NARRATIVE: looking into the future, bad things are going to happen

With my new narrative, I thought my design could represent a timeline of events. A timeline of events of her life. I designed a set of stairs which represented time and as she walked up the stairs the windows which she would look out, would decrease in size until she would get to the top where there was no more windows, symbolising that life is over.

After some feedback from my tutor, he suggested that it would work better if the stairs weren't in a square formation but a spiral formation as it would help emphasise that life is never-ending.

Just a few designs I did on SketchUp to explore what types of stairs I could do

DESIGN ONE

NARRATIVE: isolated from the real world, a lady looks outside to explore what the world has to offer

Taking inspiration from my site, New York City, i've chosen a building in the middle of times square which juxtaposes the painting and my narrative- isolated women in her room next to one of the busiest places in the world, a city that doesnt sleep.

I've decided to remove all the windows but one which allows her to look out and explore what the world has to offer and all the floors as well to increase the floor to ceiling height to emphasise that she is alone and isolated from the world.

Studying the painting again 'Eleven a.m' (1926), i noticed that even though she is naked, she has shoes on, emphasising that she wants to get up and explore whats beyond the window frame. So i altered the design and put the all the windows and floors back in which allows her to walk up the stairs during the day and to look out the window to see what the world has to offer from different positions.

SITE- New York City

PROJECT TWO

EDWARD HOPPER 1882-1967

Eleven a.m 1926
oil on canvas 71.3 x 91.6cm

common elements-
- nude female- after his marriage in 1924, he used only a single model. all female figures bear characteristics of his wife. American society strongly influenced by women
- curtains
- picture frame

- given a sense of what time it is
- calm picture, curtains NOT moving-->static picture
- enjoying the sun touching her skin
- face turned away from the audience and the object/s she gazes at is hidden. Only she can see what she is looking at which holds the viewer at a distance and therefore only seeing a part of what is happening
- tiny glimpse of the city outside and also a slightly open curtain which leads the audience into another room
- sense of mystery- no origin point and outside our field of perception- make the audience gaze into the picture, the subject of the work but the subject wont gaze back