Archifilm was concept based and designed around the idea of creating a 3-part university project; the three elements were landscape, abstract and architectural. We were to use film to inspire our designs and thought process. Throughout the three elements of the project I wanted to have a theme of contrasting, whether it be emotional or through the senses. 

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The initial idea was to create an autumn landscape of emotion, primarily looking at feeling both anger and peace; I've purposely used the colours in my landscape to get my concept across. The contours are waves of anger that increase on a gradient to show it's heightened. The clear river is the peace that runs through the landscape, with the leaves in the river kept their natural colour to show that they're untouched, contrasting from the dark painted leaves in the landscape. 

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The abstract space is somewhere to be discovered and to be intriguing; 'A place of unhappiness'. With the continuation of the contrasting emotion concept I made this a space of content and disturbed. From the outside it's dark and anonymous then once you enter the inside the space there is light that enters through the top, the feeling of content comes from being inside the space and finding out what it is. Originally the box shapes were separate spaces but then got developed into being one double heighted space.

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The architectural space was the contrasting of sight 'controlled viewing', being able to see everything and nothing. As a precedent I used Poli House designed by Pezo von Ellrichshausen to design the position of windows. It's designed so you walk up the exterior stairs and enter the space from the top and descend your way down into the architectural space, you start off my seeing everything from the top then your view in controlled in the space, you only see certain aspects; as you move around the space there are places where you can see an entire view and other places where you can't see out of the space. The positioning of stairs and sub-levels are all part of the journey through the space. 

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