I investigate light as a variable that defines and re-defines space. I develop a technique to implement this theory in physical space. The space becomes a tool to further explore how light affects space, and how I can create a space that interoperates the change in light. I work physically, investigating, in model and full scale. I develop the principal as well as details of the space. Both are of great importance to the impression of the space.  My investigation into light begun as a norm-questioning way of measuring space. How can we study space without numbers and hard values? And what spaces can we create if we break free from the flat norm? I study how light can change our perception of a surface. I started investigate in model how I could manipulate the perception of surfaces through changing the light inlet and how I could sculpt surfaces to make them appear different in different light conditions. The relation between inlet and surface became the principal that I started developing space with. I found that the directions of a surface structure is where I can control the appearance of a surface. By casting plaster I develop surfaces with directions and study light on them. I started developing elements with directions that I assemble into one structure.  I use plaster to create the elements. Plaster is interesting in the process of casting, the material goes from being able to take any shape, to become static and unchangeable, unless you break it. The plaster has the properties that it copies features from other materials, such as the shiny surface of the rubber. The plaster gets a beautiful surface that in combination with its color reveals light well. The space I’ve created is based on directions and how light changes its appearance. In one light, a veil like structure in gray and in another a contrasting with a shadows casted and fragmented on the surface.

In this piece, I have looked to use art in an attempt to explore a known phenomenon of the visual system: in this case, chromatic adaptation. The name delta in this sense has two meanings. The first is that of the mathematical symbol Δ used to represent change. This refers to not only the changing light in the art piece but the hopeful change in the viewer as they walk away questioning what it is they saw and what they see. The second refers to the landmass that occurs when a flowing body of water meets a still one, such as a river into an ocean. Through this process it has become evident that the knowledge gained is not as important as the questions asked; I now stand on the last bit of dry land before wading into the endless ocean of questions. The focus of this work has been on experience, perception, and presence. It has become clear that, while a viewer may not see change, they do feel that change. The question then becomes how do we become more attuned and adept at recognizing these feelings, what are the implications of doing so, and why does that even matter.

Photography now days challenge our perception of space, light, and architecture. Photography has challenge the way we perceive, interact and communicate in the world. In today society photography has find ways to communicate faster through images. Technology has played a big part on how we exchange pictures making it very accessible to all ages and cultures. As photography has become more accessible and it has become more technological advance, new challenges and problems have emerge. I consider that society has lost the ability to be aware of two basic essential elements which are light and space. These two elements are very important in photography but also in the human physical and emotional existence. I wanted to celebrate the learning process of photography and to be more conscious of the superficial world we live in today. I consider that by educating new generation the process of light and space can influence how people can become more in touch with its spiritual being. By providing a educational space in Georgetown where people are able to interact with visual media and learn the process of photography can have a positive impact individually and collectively. Considering that many people visit Georgetown every year became a important portal to spread the knowledge globally. / Master of Architecture

Este estudo visa comprovar a tese de que é possível identificar estratégias de apropriação da luz natural consistentes com o sistema arquitetônico da Arquitetura Moderna que chamamos de Luz Moderna. Esta perspectiva enfoca a luz natural como um elemento de composição da arquitetura tanto quanto um fator técnico. Assim fica ampliado o foco sobre a apropriação da luz natural que deixa de estar submetida apenas aos critérios técnicos e passa a obedecer a todos os demais parâmetros da própria arquitetura seja o sistema construtivo, a forma, a estrutura, seja a restrição de custos ou da legislação. Para tanto foi realizado um levantamento cronológico da invenção e desenvolvimento da Luz Moderna, bem como um comparativo com a arquitetura produzida durante a década de 1990 que visa o reconhecimento de seus desdobramentos e suas influências. / This study holds the thesis that it is possible to identify lighting strategies that are part of the characteristics of Modern Architecture, so much so that we can call them Modern Daylighting. It deals with natural lighting as a consistent element of the architectural system instead of having a exclusively technical approach. We believe that daylighting design obey to broader parameters just as architecture itself. It answers, for instance, to the constructional system, to form and to structure as well as to law or money constraints. To do so, we organized a chronological view of the invention and development of Modern Daylighting and tried to confront it with works produced during the nineties in order to verify its influences nowadays.

Este estudo visa comprovar a tese de que é possível identificar estratégias de apropriação da luz natural consistentes com o sistema arquitetônico da Arquitetura Moderna que chamamos de Luz Moderna. Esta perspectiva enfoca a luz natural como um elemento de composição da arquitetura tanto quanto um fator técnico. Assim fica ampliado o foco sobre a apropriação da luz natural que deixa de estar submetida apenas aos critérios técnicos e passa a obedecer a todos os demais parâmetros da própria arquitetura seja o sistema construtivo, a forma, a estrutura, seja a restrição de custos ou da legislação. Para tanto foi realizado um levantamento cronológico da invenção e desenvolvimento da Luz Moderna, bem como um comparativo com a arquitetura produzida durante a década de 1990 que visa o reconhecimento de seus desdobramentos e suas influências. / This study holds the thesis that it is possible to identify lighting strategies that are part of the characteristics of Modern Architecture, so much so that we can call them Modern Daylighting. It deals with natural lighting as a consistent element of the architectural system instead of having a exclusively technical approach. We believe that daylighting design obey to broader parameters just as architecture itself. It answers, for instance, to the constructional system, to form and to structure as well as to law or money constraints. To do so, we organized a chronological view of the invention and development of Modern Daylighting and tried to confront it with works produced during the nineties in order to verify its influences nowadays.

La notion d’espace prend un sens très fort et comme actif dans le travail artistique de Robert Irwin. Celui-ci instaure un nouveau mode d’être pour l’espace par son installation dite « site-conditioned/determined » tout en la nouant pourtant avec celui du site préexistant, qu’il soit intérieur ou extérieur. Le statut ontologique de son installation est celui d’un « non-objet », d’une extrême simplicité de forme et d’un minimum de matérialité : une bande noire ou une surface de voile semi-transparent, à la fois objet montré et sujet montrant, mettent en jeu lumière et ombre, attirant notre attention non seulement sur lui mais tout autour, intégrant l’espace où il s’intègre. L’installation est mise en œuvre de son environnement architectural ou naturel. L’installation est ainsi installa(tten)tion, c’est-à-dire installation qui installe l’attention. Ce que procure l’artiste au spectateur par son installation est la sensation pure de l’apparaître dynamique et changeant de l’espace du monde réel. Sensible d’abord à la dimension réelle de l’espace physique, nous découvrons peu à peu sa dimension virtuelle, puis transcendantale, au fur et à mesure que ce processus de sensation pure déclenché par l’aspect inhabituel de cet espace pourtant réel se déploie. Grâce au toucher direct et vivant d’un sentir aiguisé, et visuel et kinesthésique, éveillé par l’installation de Robert Irwin, devient quasi palpable notre conscience d’exister. Elle résonne alors à la réalité directe et immédiate du monde mais aussi aux virtualités de son apparaître et à ce qui les rend possibles : sa forme en soi, révélée et actualisée comme la véritable nature de l’espace réel. / The notion of space has a strong and active meaning in Robert Irwin’s art work. He establishes a new way of appearance of space through his so-called “Site-conditioned/determined” installation by uniting the installation with the space of the existing site, whether indoors or out. The ontological status of his installation is that of a “none-object”: extremely simple in form and with a minimum of materials. He uses a black tape or a surface of semitransparent scrim. These objects are both “object shown” and “subject showing”. They play with light and shadow, catching our attention not only on themselves but also on their surroundings, including the space into which they fit. So the art piece is not only the installation itself but its circumstance with its whole architectural or natural environment. So the installation is installa(tten)tion, that is to say an installation that installs attention. Through the installation, the artist provides for the viewer a chance to have a pure sensation of the dynamic and changing appearance of space in the real world. At first sensitive to the real dimension of physical space, we discover little by little its virtual and then transcendental dimensions, as this process of pure sensation unfolds, triggered by the unusual aspect of the real space caused by the installation. A direct and living contact through a sharpened feeling, both visual and kinesthetic, with the space, awakened by the installation of Robert Irwin, makes our awareness of existing almost palpable. This awareness of existing resonates with the direct and immediate reality of the world as well as potentialities of the world’s appearance and what makes these potentialities possible: form in itself, revealed and actualized as the true nature of real space.