Habitats/Environments

'Holon' + Mountain Sketch + 'Untitled'

                                                   

'Ya-Harkon' + Swamp Sketch + 'Playground'

                             

Exterior and Interior Environment Sketches

Exterior

Interior

Creature: "Holon"
Designer work: "Design Museum Holon"
Folded Object: "Playground"
Chosen Words: Aurora, Encapsulate, Swift, Freedom, Uplift

Exterior

Interior

Creature: "Ya-Harkon"
Designer work: "Ha-Yarkon Street"
Folded Object: "Untitled"
Chosen Words: Strength, Deceptive, Elegant, Fortified, Serenity

Expressive/Initial Sketches (more soon)

Pairing the Models and Creatures + 10 expressive words

Ya-Harkon and Untitled words: Endure, Strength, Deceptive, Elegant, Fortified, Inspiring, Console, Individuality, Serenity, Bold

Holon and Playground words: Fluid, Vibrant, Flow, Aurora, Warmth, Encapsulate, Swift, Freedom, Motivation, Uplift

Two FURTHER Developed Spore Creatures:

A very rare flying serpent, the Holon lives high in the sky near the edge of the atmosphere and rarely descends to the surface. On occasion, it does dwell at the peaks of high altitude mountain peaks however.When it feeds, it drops down and swoops on unsuspecting prey, able to reach speeds of 200km/h! The Holon is a very prideful creature being easily offended and aggitated. Despite this, a Holon can also be extremely loyal if tamed and shown a measurable amount of respect. The Holon also has no eyes, and instead relies on it's keen sense of hearing only to navigate through the air.

The Ya-Harkon is a rather docile creature. It uses its amazing mane of feathers on its neck to both scare away predators as well as draw in other females. Despite being peaceful most times, it is able to cause a large amount of destruction if threatened. The Ya-Harkon will usually travel in herds of only 3-5 others at any time, opting to repel any newcomers to the herd if the number is exceeded. As such, the Ya-Harkon is a little selfish and can be incredibly protective of its own herd, treating them as family.

Three Developed Spore Creatures:

More on Architect Ron Arad

Ron Arad has designed many rigid and solid rectilinear type designs and architecture including the Zion Square Sculpture and the interior element in the Apartment Place des Vosges. However, he also has designed and created many fantastic fluid and smooth architecture:

The 'Design Museum Holon' is an interesting architecture that Ron has designed in Israel. It serves to be an "international-standard museum" and possesses many fluid ribbon elements combined together in the one design. Warm earthy colours coupled with the physical architecture also creates vibrant life when viewed from the exterior, juxtaposing much of the white plain apartment complexes around it. 

Ron Arad has also designed a luxury residential complex on Tel aviv's beach promenade. 'Ha-Yarkon Street' also uses an amalgamation of fluid curvaceous forms integrated into a more solid 'backbone' architecture in the rear. What is interesting about this particular architecture is that the main living/residential section of the structure is cantilevered out and floats above street level.  

Another one of Ron Arad's architecture projects is the 'Mediacite.' Located in Belgium, the 'Mediacite' serves as a mall with many different external Piazzas. Similar to 'Ha-Yarkon Street' and 'Design Museum Holon,' the 'Mediacite' has long extensive fluid exoskeleton covering the entire length of the mall that architecturally serves as a facade. The warm-colored undulating steel rib skeleton on the outside can also be viewed from the interior and draws individuals within from one section of the mall to another.

Sources: http://www.ronarad.co.uk/design-museum-holon/

                                                 http://www.ronarad.co.uk/ha-yarkon-street-tel-aviv/

                                                            http://www.ronarad.co.uk/mediacite/