My group is doing the imovie project on The Oculus train-station, downtown near the World Trade Center. Th photo i took really catches the architecture on the building. The theme to me is expansions and contraction. Here,I caught all three levels of the building at once, along with the structure enabling one to switch between them. I caught a man mid conversation, people plodding down the stairs, and people on the lowest level, at distance simply strolling by. The right side to me resembles a train tunnel. Of course it is glammed up, made high-end with its radiating white and glimmering glass shop windows, but the shape is the same and the structure connotes a sort of movement. Another incredible facet of the structure is the scale. The telephone man does not appear so tiny in relation to the wall he is up against, but as one follows those beams upwards in the center of the picture, one can tell the building is swallowing him along with the people on the lowest level who are not even on the same level as where these beam like supports sprout. The building itself has a wonderful line of window skylights breaking through the ceilings center that are the foundation of this “radiant white” which is then enhanced by the plethora of artificial lights that shed bright white light. Another feature of the Oculus is the manner in which it plays with intersections. it looks here as though the three planes intersect but in reality their only links are the stairwells escalators and elevators.
This picture did not manage to capture the image of a whale that my brain seems to associate the structure (particularly the outside facade with. I will attach a picture of the facade although it is not the picture I have mainly been discussing along with my main picture, and a picture of a whale, and you can let me know what you think. (I did not take the what picture or the picture of the outside of the Oculus). I am also going to include a picture that captures a lighting fixture/system that resembles train tracks (which i did take).