a looking glass to the campus
As a final offering to the campus, each student in the Architectural Senior thesis class designed one last project. With the only guideline being that it must be organized around the central pathway that cuts through the whole campus, we were otherwise completely free to create whatever we wanted.
Fascinated by the simultaneous power and invisibility of monuments and memorials, I decided to create a looking glass facing the campus's own Anti-Gravity memorial. While this memorial is on one of the most traveled roads within the campus, many students do not realize it is there. Through the opening, the viewer sees that the landscape has been filtered green and that there are aliens climbing down the side of the monument.
Trying to add humor to a very academically strict and serious part of campus (the memorial is adjacent to the library, math and economics building, as well as the administrative offices), the looking glass served as a way to challenge the norms of the landscape.
Fascinated by the simultaneous power and invisibility of monuments and memorials, I decided to create a looking glass facing the campus's own Anti-Gravity memorial. While this memorial is on one of the most traveled roads within the campus, many students do not realize it is there. Through the opening, the viewer sees that the landscape has been filtered green and that there are aliens climbing down the side of the monument.
Trying to add humor to a very academically strict and serious part of campus (the memorial is adjacent to the library, math and economics building, as well as the administrative offices), the looking glass served as a way to challenge the norms of the landscape.