Initial Concepts - Cousteau + Campbell

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau:

The initial idea was to focus on the subject material "water". This was seen as the influential attribute for Cousteau's passion and dedication. The structure was to encompass the formation of the contained spaces, but envision a sight of freedom (spatial awareness to visual mass). To suspend the mass off the vertical plane, the premise was the relationship to below, the idea of an immaculate unknown quantity, as envisioned by Cousteau's research plight of the ocean depths. The blue lighting is in direct reference to the ocean depths, (though in tangent of the opposite inner structure), the idea of pristine truth.

The relationship of lighting carefully articulates the underside of the structure in blue, while the surface above remains exposed to natural light to provide the contrast between land and sea.

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Keith Campbell:

The focus of this concept was to visually arrange the structure and mass by symmetry. The attribute was of repetition which is in direct reference to cloning. The structure itself is design with height, as they implies a sense of religious structures, a somewhat idealism of the constant battle between science and religion (The ceiling slope looking beyond the heavens). Lighting underneath and behind the structure conveys the sense of floating, an unknown quantity referring to the use of the technology involved and the ethical principals involved. 

Lighting carefully provides contrast between the two separate client spaces between the vertical plane. It also emphasises the separation of the two rooms, again an insight towards separation and combining of genes as part of the work within the science laboratories.