Studio Fous Five Overview

SPECIALIST FOCUS 

SEMPER 

DIGITAL PROCESS 

ANALOGUE PROCESS 

DIGITAL MACHINERY 

PERFORMANCE TEST 

'...They crossed a section of the roadway planted with poppies, the vivid but sinister flowers extending in front of them for three hundred yards. The bumper of the truck scythed through the flowers, and a dense cloud of petals billowed into the air, staining the sky like a miniature sunset. Halloway turned and made a second run through the poppies, almost standing at the wheel as they hurtled through the whirling petals...'

'There seemed to be something decadent about this obsessibe planting of vines and flowers, an unconscious but all the more sinister attempt to bring back a luric and over-bright nature red in tooth and claw. Halloway had begun to hate the carpets of blossoms, these creepers and climbing plants that threatened to strangle the city before he could release it. Already he was thinking of the defoliants he had noticed in a chemical supplies sotre. "I'm grateful to you, Halloway" Buckaster told him as they walked back to the hotel. "There's a sense of stylbe about you that I like."

From the handout
Atmosphere does not simply refer to the quality of air. It is not something which can be created simply by controlling the temperature, air flow and humidity. Throughout history, passive and mechanical systems that assist in the maintenance and alteration of atmospheric conditions such as admitting or restricting light, allowing the sun to warm a wall or floor and radiate heat, directing smoke or hot air to evacuate through a chimney or open window, or constructing a roof out of straw thatch to create a thick insulating layer trapping warm air inside have been used to create comfortable, habitable enviornments in response to varying climatic conditions. However atmosphere also refers to the mood or perception of quality of space. The atmosphere of a space might be awe inspiring, gloomy, exciting, regal, grotty, lively or bleak. Although a particular atmosphere is imparted, whether it is utopian or dystopian is not answered.

We must be able to create both of these atmpheres at once, being both warm and inviting, humid and oppressive, cold and forbidding. Thus, the sensory perception of space goes hand in hand with the sensory perception of atmosphere. Population density, sound and smell also infiltrate our sense adding or detracting from the pleasntness, familarity of an atmosphere.