Eagle Football Stadium
Title: Eagle Football Stadium
Size: 22.9cm. x 30.5cm.
Medium: Graphite on Sketch Paper
October 20, 2016
Exhibition Text:
For this art piece, I focused on the career that I plan to pursue which is architecture. I wanted to incorporate one of my favorite animals into a themed stadium. My intention is to connect Biology and architectural engineering and design together. My artist inspiration was Santiago Calatrava. |
Artist Inspiration:
My Artist inspiration is Santiago Calatrava who is from Spain. Calatrava through his architectural designs displayed a connection between engineering and biology. He was inspired by the mechanical precision of several animals. This includes specific physical features and their skeletons. The connection between engineering and biology in the form of an architectural art was never seen before. Calatrava has produced several different projects across the world, but is famous for his use of biology in his work. Santiago Calatrava was inspired by the skeleton structures of animals, and physical forms such as wings. The precision of a dog skeleton inspired Calatrava’s first big civic commission. This project was a train station in Zurich, Switzerland and the corridors resembled an animal's rib cage. Nature’s movement and forms inspire Calatrava in several of his architectural designs. Throughout his designs he includes biomorphic qualities. “His art museum in Milwaukee has wings that open to the sky. A train station in Lisbon has columns that look like a forest of palm trees. A planetarium in Valencia, Spain, began with the sketch of a human eyeball”(Tischler, 2010). Calatrava is known for his connection between Biology and Engineering. |
Process and Experimentation
Process:
While working on this architectural design, I wanted to incorporate the Eagle, and one of my favorite sports being football. My main intention was to design different forms of possible stadium designs that incorporate eagle characteristics. By characteristics, I would incorporate more physical characteristics such as the wings, the sharp, line of the beak, and the tail feathers. I wanted to imitate Santiago Calatrava's technique and architectural designs, and his incorporation of animal biology and anatomy. I think that it is unique to connect architecture and biology to manipulate the materials used to build the building to recreate the physical shapes and qualities that certain animals have. Throughout my designs and process of creating the designs, I kept in mind how to incorporate the eagle's physical characteristics into a football stadium.
While working on this architectural design, I wanted to incorporate the Eagle, and one of my favorite sports being football. My main intention was to design different forms of possible stadium designs that incorporate eagle characteristics. By characteristics, I would incorporate more physical characteristics such as the wings, the sharp, line of the beak, and the tail feathers. I wanted to imitate Santiago Calatrava's technique and architectural designs, and his incorporation of animal biology and anatomy. I think that it is unique to connect architecture and biology to manipulate the materials used to build the building to recreate the physical shapes and qualities that certain animals have. Throughout my designs and process of creating the designs, I kept in mind how to incorporate the eagle's physical characteristics into a football stadium.
The design to the left is my first design, which was more of the base stadium design. I thought that I could use this stadium as my base, and incorporate and manipulate industrial characteristics with animal characteristics. This later on ended up not being my base for my final stadium design. Although it was not my base for the final one, it incorporated sharp lines to replicate the sharpness of the eagle's beak.
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The second design to the right is a more developed incorporation of the eagle's physical characteristics. Each section of seats for the stadium follow a wavy pattern, which replicates the eagle's feathers, and the wavy aspect of them in the air or when the wind strikes them. To develop this stadium design to incorporate more of the wings, I added something to the upper deck of the stadium to form more shape toward that of the eagle.
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To develop the previous stadium design, I thought of incorporating a wing-like form in the upper deck of the football stadium. This would be included on parallel sides of the stadium to create the wingspan when the wings are in a comfortable position against the eagle's sides. This addition of the wing concept in the upper deck of the stadium would inspire my final design which would be greatly used and developed to its full extent in the stadium design.
The stadium design to the right is the development photo/sketch of my final design. As it can be seen, the front part which the football field lays in toward the left resembles the beak of the eagle. I wanted to not only incorporate the form, but the line of the beak. The piece coming off of the beak toward the right resembles the tail of the eagle, and it is manipulated to create the industrial aspects.
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The picture to the left is one of the wing-like structures for the seating in this final stadium design. This provides more form, and shape to which it can represent and clearly suggest the shape of the eagle's wings. The parts that are on the gradient scale of black are areas that are not used for seating. These are tight areas which would not provide a unique angle for the viewer to watch a game, but rather more difficult and from a farther distance.
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The picture to the right is one of the wing-like structures for the seating in this final stadium design. This provides more form, and shape to which it can represent and clearly suggest the shape of the eagle's wings. The parts that are on the gradient scale of black are areas that are not used for seating. These are tight areas which would not provide a unique angle for the viewer to watch a game, but rather more difficult and from a farther distance.
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The picture to the left is the final stadium design which incorporates almost all of the eagle's physical characteristics which provides a unique form and structure for the stadium. This outside design incorporates and can be seen as a clear inspiration from Santiago Calatrava. This was my main intention was to imitate his techniques and process of designing buildings. The design below is the final design, but for the outside appearance of the stadium. This creates the outside feel to then witness the inside and overall appearance inside or outside.
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ACT Questions:
The relationship between my work and my inspiration which is Santiago Calatrava, is that I imitated his technique and style to connect key aspects of biology of animals to the development of his architectural designs. I incorporated physical characteristics of the eagle into the design of a football stadium. The approach that Santiago Calatrava uses is incredibly unique because it was never thought of before. His approach was to connect architectural design and engineering and biology and anatomy. Santiago Calatrava used his techniques and styles of his architecture from his culture. His culture is rich in architecture, but he wanted to incorporate the anatomy and biology of animals into these designs. The central theme and idea that was around my inspirational research is animals, and biology. These two concepts are significant in which they are the basis for which these designs incorporate into their forms. Some inferences that can be taken out of my research is that architecture is developed through several themes, and can incorporate nature to it's finest. Architecture uses elements to provide form and develop shape.
The relationship between my work and my inspiration which is Santiago Calatrava, is that I imitated his technique and style to connect key aspects of biology of animals to the development of his architectural designs. I incorporated physical characteristics of the eagle into the design of a football stadium. The approach that Santiago Calatrava uses is incredibly unique because it was never thought of before. His approach was to connect architectural design and engineering and biology and anatomy. Santiago Calatrava used his techniques and styles of his architecture from his culture. His culture is rich in architecture, but he wanted to incorporate the anatomy and biology of animals into these designs. The central theme and idea that was around my inspirational research is animals, and biology. These two concepts are significant in which they are the basis for which these designs incorporate into their forms. Some inferences that can be taken out of my research is that architecture is developed through several themes, and can incorporate nature to it's finest. Architecture uses elements to provide form and develop shape.
Reflection:
Overall, I think that my stadium designs clearly are inspired by Santiago Calatrava, and incorporate techniques and concepts that he uses within his architecture. My main intention was to design different forms of possible stadium designs that incorporate eagle characteristics. By characteristics, I would incorporate more physical characteristics such as the wings, the sharp, line of the beak, and the tail feathers. I wanted to imitate Santiago Calatrava's technique and architectural designs, and his incorporation of animal biology and anatomy. I think that it is unique to connect architecture and biology to manipulate the materials used to build the building to recreate the physical shapes and qualities that certain animals have. Throughout my designs and process of creating the designs, I kept in mind how to incorporate the eagle's physical characteristics into a football stadium. I think that the previously mentioned intentions are clearly displayed within these designs.
Overall, I think that my stadium designs clearly are inspired by Santiago Calatrava, and incorporate techniques and concepts that he uses within his architecture. My main intention was to design different forms of possible stadium designs that incorporate eagle characteristics. By characteristics, I would incorporate more physical characteristics such as the wings, the sharp, line of the beak, and the tail feathers. I wanted to imitate Santiago Calatrava's technique and architectural designs, and his incorporation of animal biology and anatomy. I think that it is unique to connect architecture and biology to manipulate the materials used to build the building to recreate the physical shapes and qualities that certain animals have. Throughout my designs and process of creating the designs, I kept in mind how to incorporate the eagle's physical characteristics into a football stadium. I think that the previously mentioned intentions are clearly displayed within these designs.