Remington Knight
Design II
A Space for Poetry
We never know how high we are
By: Emily Dickinson
The main focus of the poem and my design is that things are not always as they appear. In the poem it states that we never know our true potential. From that I have interpreted that people have a preconceived notion about everything at first glance. My design reflects this by the use of elements gradually getting farther apart in depth and width. This in turn gives you a false set of walls which at first glance seems as a small closed off area that there is nothing else to see beyond what is first perceived. Also the use a roof as the one diagonal sloping toward the front again gives you the idea of that there is nothing else to see. Then as you enter the space you see a vast open area and there is the main point of my space. Here you find that there are no bounds to what you can achieve. I believe that after reading this poem in this space you will have a new outlook and motivation on life and your aspirations.
As in life and in the poem we never know what we can really achieve until we do what we were striving for. Incorporated in my design is the idea of rising to the occasion. In the poem Emily writes “we never know how high we are until we are called to rise” this idea I expressed by using a razed thick plain with stairs that are hollow. You get a since of the space floating which expresses this ideal.
In the beginning I found myself focusing on the process of getting to the space and not the space itself. In this design I began with the space and designing around it. I feel that in my design everything is done for a purpose, no unnecessary astatically pleasing aspects are used. Throughout the process of designing I found myself reflecting and changing different ideas. I tried to always ask the question, does this reflect my poem and the ideas expressed, if it didn’t I recessed, critiqued, and asked questions and finally I came to the conclusion that you see in front you now.