Precedents for Assignment 5

At first, I was a little overwhelmed with the parameters of this project. Over the progress of my brainstorming, I've been thinking a little bit about what I want to do and the work that's giving me inspiration, and perhaps some of the other things that have helped in my thought process too.

First, I've been thinking a lot about Jenny Holzer's work, especially her projections on large scale on water fronts.

One site that I was thinking about using was the Music School Pond, and perhaps if we have our critique at night, I could do something dealing with the water's opaqueness and fluidity at night to affect the light.

Another thing I've been thinking about is building some sort of space with light in a linear form--using the natural linear direction of light to construct a space.

I couldn't find anyone who's done anything similar before. I'm not saying that this has never been done before, but just that I couldn't find anyone in particular as a precedent.

What I was thinking was to somehow construct a space or possibly a design hovering slightly above the music school pond, so that it is present both above and "below" the water (by this I mean that the combination of the water's natural movement and the reflective properties may give the effect that it is "below" the water's surface).

This is all I have for now, and come next monday I will have sketches of precisely what I want to do, or attempt to do, and accompany these ideas with the architectural/precise drawings that you guys were looking for.