Rob is one of the artist who helped with the Art of Jazz this past year. Here is an architecture project he worked on in school. Rob is going to school for architecture.

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This is my first project of the year, it would be situated just off the Red River along a creek. 
The tea house tradition, rooted in Eastern philosophy is hundreds of years old and we were asked to re-interpret it.
Main premise of my idea was the integration of opposites and a ‘web’ of culture which is why the drawings are woven together. 
 
You would basically step up and walk up the ramps.  The sun tea is in need of the hot sun as you are in need of shade,
at the top you let the sun tea brew and you can go down and rest on a bench next the creek and watch the tea as it changes colors,
framed against the moving sky.  The rusted posts frame in a garden space and the team is the darkest and coolest place,
rainwater collects in a trough to cool the tea and reflect constantly changing light on the walls.
 
The artifact is a to life-scale representation of the sun tea-vessel and somehow I got it to actually work! haha
Dimensions are about 11’x19′ and only about 1/2′ thick, it can hold close to 20 oz. of tea. 
 
I’ll describe the pictures a bit to see if that helps explain more…
 
exhibit 1 – Drawings above, artifact below (you can slide it out of the rusted steel piece it is sitting in that I made), model in the lower right
 
exhibit 2 – Same idea but showing how thin the tea-vessel is, making it brew much quicker than the usual 4 hours or so
 
exhibit 3 – view from above showing the thinness and the piece that slides out, allowing you to pour the water and slide the tea bag in.
 
Drawings – as I said are ‘woven together,’ we have to do a parti which is an inspiration/metaphor for our project mine being the ‘cat’s cradle.’ –
               The idea of creating a web that changes, reliance and communication with another person, and it is a mundane game, the thought
               influenced by the roots of the tea ceremony (zen buddhism).
 
Model 1 – shows the succession of ramps, materials, and trees on the site – actual tea house is on the left
 
Model 2 – without the roof of the tea house, you can see the bench that slides through the wall to sit on, the trough of water underneath.
              the beams for structure that help frame the spaces, and the ladder down in the upper left of the model.
 
Model 3 – Pretty much a bad photo but a better view of the ladder (on the far right of the model) and the bench you can lay and rest on.
 
Model 4 – Good photo of textures, if you’re still following along the trough of water comes out of the tea house where you would enter in.
 
Model 5 – Bird’s eye perspective with blurry branch, you get a glimpse of the exit at the bottom middle of the photo.
 
Perspective drawing done in black ink, a ‘pointilism’ approach.
 
Artifact 1 – View of the artifact with textured glass, the wooden inlay controls the flow of tea out so you can drink without spilling,
                the gap (from this view) on the left is where the tea bag goes (not pictured) and also plugs the vessel so there are no leaks.
 
 
Well I’m sure that was so clear and interesting you have no more questions 😉 but if you do let me know if you so desire…  

For more info about the show and Frank’s music:

www.toejazz.com or www.frankbasilemusic.com

 

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