After my review for ex1 I went ahead and did a first draft revision over the weekend. I got to the core of my ideas, and what it was I truly wanted to diagram. I simplified it a bit, and concentrated on one idea:
A place for Reading can be found off the normal trail, maybe it’s that corner in the park, maybe it’s against a tree, or in that sunny nook in your home. It is a place of isolation, and filtration of sensory stimuli. It is a place that does this without being too confined and there is free movement within the space. There might be an open end of the enclosure that focuses on a space. This focused space has qualities that aren’t distracting and allow for a connection to an external environment.
Ultimatly it’s about being able focus on a denser reading material, and let the mind materialize a visual representation without outside distraction. Hence in the collage this represents the tree as a focused single construct, while the external influences are filtered enough where they don’t interfere.
I’m sure I’ll be coming back and refining this further (and a more simple diagram perhaps) but this is as it stands for now.
Some immediate feedback regarding the new diagram I’ve gotten. What do these systems imply? There is clearly a sense that one layer is wall-like and harder in nature. While the inner layer is about something else, which is perceived by the user. Scale of spaces are important too. Are they podlike? Where there is an outside wall that encloses them? Or is the outer wall represented actually the outer wall. What is happening in between the two layers? What does this imply?
A. The outer layer is definetly a harder layer that becomes more about the function of the wall. It diffuses light. Period.
B. The inner layer (one that is curvy) is about creating an inner layer that is solid in nature although transparent. It also is intended to create a layer of comfort.
OR
A. It is one layer entirely, but is perceived differently from the inside vs the outside. The outer layer is hard, the inner layer is soft. The in between layer is a layer of filtering out the distraction. This gets you from hard to soft.
Now ,the issue of directed wholes in the outer wall but the inner wall remains whole. This might be too directional. Or, it could be about creating a threshold.
Maybe it is just about being engrossed in your book with only some level of filtered distraction.