Axonometric Sketches (Alfred Nobel)

Axonometric Sketches (Jacques Cousteau)

Ideas From Clients Exp 2

"Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilised nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops."

Alfred Nobel

Source: War and Peace in Alfred Nobel's Thinking, http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/articles/tagil/index.html, accessed April 6 2009.

"My motive in seeking out new sites to explore, in diving even deeper, in staying below even longer, in filming, in fighting, was, certainly, the satisfaction of my curiosity about the sea. But it was also an emotional, almost sexual need . . . I was biologically drawn to the sea, but I knew very well that I would never succeed in possessing it totally."

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Source: Richard Munson "Obituary: Jacques Cousteau". Independent, The (London). http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970626/ai_n14101465/, accessed April 6 2009.

"Obviously, when you make a breakthrough, it is very exciting. But I get very excited regularly about small results in the lab, which would mean nothing to lots of people."

Keith Campbell

Source: MBLWHOI Library "Cloning Dolly, How and Why?", http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/transcript.html, accessed April 6 2009.

Development of Stair Design

The stairs which lead to the upper studio space. (Rumination) The tread and the rise are constructed of concrete to maintain material fluidity within the model.

The staircase which leads to the lower studio space. (Tantalize) The spiral staircase evokes a tantalizing sense, utilizing a custom texture (Luster) and a glass balustrade.


An examination of the developed stairs utilized in the final model.

Exterior Animation of Model

Interior Animation of Model

Section Animation of Model