Barry Yanku
Architect
"Dancing and buildings are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.”
—The Dance of Life, Ellis Haveloc
The notion of choreographing design is the central theme of this portfolio. The synergy of dance and design has been the focus of my design explorations since 1985. As a design mechanism the choreographed design uses kinetic principles as part of the design gestalt and takes the design process out of the static paper conceptual world into a virtual world which relies on three dimensional modeling as its primary vehicle.
Elevation and plan are immediately merged into a volumetric realm from the beginning of the design process. Many other kinetic principles take place in choreographed spaces, such as the infliction of changing light on a material and or the tracking of the daily changes of the natural light over the period of a day. Additionally the immediacy of visualization, of the three dimensional environments, give users a look into the future by seeing in almost any direction of the space that is envisioned.
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