Collecting data
Observe activities
Therapeutic focus
Out on the street in the cool of the evening, a wide variety of human activities and interactions manifest, providing fodder for entertainment. The entirety of existence presents a continuous performance.
“I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people – from a distance.” – Charles Bukowski
Typical procedure
Within certain limits
Horizontal plane
Large public transportation venues tend to reduce patterned and repetitive human behavior to simple spasmodic movement. Meanwhile, aesthetic functions serve the purpose of awakening within a certain uplifting or otherwise significant feeling.
“We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.” – Anthony Liccione
Chrome plated
Complex substantial
Rigid construction
During the 1950’s, automobile bumpers were heavy, stiff, elaborate, and ornamentally decorative. Such resistant construction offers much more protection to the car itself rather than to the car occupants.
“There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.” – Charles M. Schulz
Ripples reach shore
Intimate transfiguration
Promenade in the morning
Certain familiar local geographic locations always stimulate imagination as the most valuable individual asset. As we experience life in the mind, creativeness is one of the forces of nature.
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” – Wallace Stevens
Across painted hills
Flash of freedom
Starting to glow
Finding curiousness in the moment, regardless of the apparent normalcy of circumstances, marks the aesthetic deportment on an evening drive. Exploration of the real involves dreams and imagined scenarios.
“My music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I’m at during a particular moment in time.” – Tom Petty
Ponton appearance
Modern precursor
Envelope styling
Defunct automobile brands live on as object artifacts.
“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” – Robert L. Peters
Mystical sphere
Far from known
Poignant trance
By carving space out of space, a multivalued pluralistic thought experience is modulated by subjective feeling. Such a dream-like opening stimulates durational intuition, where comprehension and abstraction transmit through time instantaneously coalescing in the present.
“Confronted with a stressful stimulus, one’s reflexes and/or conditioned behavior often preempted the appropriate measured response.” – Donald Fagen
Large sparse majestic
Axial angle path
Entrance symmetry
At the airport drop-off point, just before entering the terminal, a quick image capture preserves the fleeting experience of being there. The durational continuity of moving through space and time comprises perceptive awareness. Along the way, certain encounters cause momentary pause.
“The visual goal that terminates the approach is clear; it can be an entire front facade of a building or an elaborated entrance within it.” – Mili Jain
Dynamic forms
Amalgamate several
Conflicting ideas
Approaching matter and space at the prodigious scale of an aerodrome system, an expressive sensual style of modernism can enhance the travel experience. In its effortless wing-like alacrity, the Dulles terminal design conveys ideas of immovable flight, providing an open atmospheric environment.
“Function influences but does not dictate form.” – Eero Saarinen
Uniquely distinguished
Particular interest
Unusual quality
This art deco detail is extracted from the streamlined Buick Special produced in 1937. Sleek and rounded to defined speed and power, such functional objects matched the new needs of new times. New times quickly become old times.
“I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.” – Ina Garten