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wyndham city council T he Wyndham City has been addressing the issue of its image by undertaking significant works to upgrade the condition and aesthetics of its streetscapes, open spaces and parks. Hence the Gateway Project, where the installa- tion will enhance the physical environment through the in- troduction of a visual arts component. A new architectural discourse introduced by computing design through the combination of space, nature and materiality. The Western Gateway installation offers a high exposure location to those entering the urban precinct of the munic- ipality, as well as to those travelling along the freeway. The key considerations brought forward in the development of the design and carried out towards the design discourse is the consideration of how the installation integrates with in with the immediate and surrounding landscape whilst being original and engaging in form. This object-centered individual sculpture creates a more experiential approach with both daytime and night time viewing. W hen traveling at 100 kilometers per hour on the freeway you will travel ap- proximately 277 meters per 10 seconds. This means that the site takes aproximatley 45 seconds to pass and 20 seconds of which you pass the chosen location for the sculpture. site map moiré patterns at different frequencies MOIR É Moir é patterning is an optical phenomenon that may appear as a wavy, rippled or circular pattern under certain lighting conditions. This illusion of movement in a still object can be achieved by an interference pattern caused by two surfaces an angles with each other. The moir é feature is instilled in the design proposal for the Western Gateway Project. studio: air T he chosen cuts where laser cut on ivory card in order to see how they would react with light from mul- tiple sources shinning onto and through them. This imi- tated cars driving from one and multiple directions. The shadows generated by two particular overlapping pat- terns where creating the moire effect very well. LIGHT AND SHADOW For hundreds of years art- ists and architects have been fascinated by cast shadows and perspective – the two shaping factors of spatial representation. The form was developed by integrating the cho- sen CUT (Image Sampler and Rotation) on a more dynamic shape with many plans, and observing how the moiré patterning would cast. Keeping in mind that the object was to blend into the land- scape and not be seen, and the form more ex- periential than iconic. By developing a script in Grasshopper a form of contours was cre- ated, that reflected the landscape around. But the form didn’t show the moiré pattern as well as expected but instead cast a raindrop appearance. The result was unex- pected and further inves- tigation was undertaken.

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T h e W y n d h a m C i t y h a s b e e n a d d r e s s i n g t h e i s s u e o f i t s i m a g e b y u n d e r t a k i n g s i g n i f i c a n t w o r k s t o u p g r a d e t h e c o n d i t i o n a n d a e s t h e t i c s o f i t s s t r e e t s c a p e s , o p e n s p a c e s a n d p a r k s . H e n c e t h e G a t e w a y P r o j e c t , w h e r e t h e i n s t a l l a -t i o n w i l l e n h a n c e t h e p h y s i c a l e n v i r o n m e n t t h r o u g h t h e i n -t r o d u c t i o n o f a v i s u a l a r t s c o m p o n e n t . A n e w a r c h i t e c t u r a l d i s c o u r s e i n t r o d u c e d b y c o m p u t i n g d e s i g n t h r o u g h t h e c o m b i n a t i o n o f s p a c e , n a t u r e a n d m a t e r i a l i t y .

T h e W e s t e r n G a t e w a y i n s t a l l a t i o n o f f e r s a h i g h e x p o s u r e l o c a t i o n t o t h o s e e n t e r i n g t h e u r b a n p r e c i n c t o f t h e m u n i c -i p a l i t y , a s w e l l a s t o t h o s e t r a v e l l i n g a l o n g t h e f r e e w a y . T h e k e y c o n s i d e r a t i o n s b r o u g h t f o r w a r d i n t h e d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e d e s i g n a n d c a r r i e d o u t t o w a r d s t h e d e s i g n d i s c o u r s e i s t h e c o n s i d e r a t i o n o f h o w t h e i n s t a l l a t i o n i n t e g r a t e s w i t h i n w i t h t h e i m m e d i a t e a n d s u r r o u n d i n g l a n d s c a p e w h i l s t b e i n g o r i g i n a l a n d e n g a g i n g i n f o r m . T h i s o b j e c t - c e n t e r e d i n d i v i d u a l s c u l p t u r e c r e a t e s a m o r e e x p e r i e n t i a l a p p r o a c h w i t h b o t h d a y t i m e a n d n i g h t t i m e v i e w i n g .

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T h e f o r m w a s d e v e l o p e d b y i n t e g r a t i n g t h e c h o -s e n C U T ( I m a g e S a m p l e r a n d R o t a t i o n ) o n a m o r e d y n a m i c s h a p e w i t h m a n y p l a n s , a n d o b s e r v i n g h o w t h e m o i r é p a t t e r n i n g w o u l d c a s t . K e e p i n g i n m i n d t h a t t h e o b j e c t w a s t o b l e n d i n t o t h e l a n d -s c a p e a n d n o t b e s e e n , a n d t h e f o r m m o r e e x -p e r i e n t i a l t h a n i c o n i c . B y d e v e l o p i n g a s c r i p t i n G r a s s h o p p e r a f o r m o f c o n t o u r s w a s c r e -a t e d , t h a t r e f l e c t e d t h e l a n d s c a p e a r o u n d . B u t t h e f o r m d i d n ’ t s h o w t h e m o i r é p a t t e r n a s w e l l a s e x p e c t e d b u t i n s t e a d c a s t a r a i n d r o p a p p e a r a n c e . T h e r e s u l t w a s u n e x -p e c t e d a n d f u r t h e r i n v e s -t i g a t i o n w a s u n d e r t a k e n .

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