For my concept I wanted to create a visual journey from the food's origin to the refrigerator to our kitchen tables. I know as a kid I saw food as something that just appears in the refrigerator without much thought. Transportation connects farms, processing facilities, distribution centers and then to our homes. The railroad becomes a symbol of that connection. 

https://www.pexels.com/photo/expansive-green-rice-paddy-fields-under-blue-sky-39814920/

https://www.pexels.com/photo/new-little-belt-bridge-in-fredericia-in-denmark-20532681/

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Sage Lewis- Architectural Blend

My concept for this architectural blend was to depict a piece about the mixture of things built to last and things built for profit. The cathedral is a front-facing piece of the west facade of the Cathedral of Chartres that describes how architecture was built to last for centuries and to stand the test of time, seeing as this was built during the Romanesque period. However, there is a combination of the modern house, which was so simple and clean that it was meant to depict fleeting architecture meant to be built quickly and bought fast. I added the fields to draw the eyes up to see the dynamism of the large cathedral mixed with a small home.

 https://www.pexels.com/photo/house-in-town-16849899/ \

https://unsplash.com/photos/people-walking-near-brown-concrete-building-during-daytime-_xAUCK4KtHo 

https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-rural-field-15747270/

 

Noelle Greene - Architectural Blend

 

My concept for this project stemmed from the personal place of having moved so much from place to place, seeing different environments, and that the only consistency is the windows that frame that environment. I set out to combine three distinct settings being the apartment of the door/window, the cityscape outside, and the nature in the form of the water inside. I wanted this to invoke the feeling of how the same windows frame entirely different spaces even in how each window captures the same city at two different times in the day with the reflection being a third.

https://pixabay.com/photos/east-asia-city-life-shenzhen-3755723/

https://pixabay.com/photos/east-asia-city-life-shenzhen-3755722/

https://pixabay.com/photos/east-asia-city-life-shenzhen-3755727/

https://pixabay.com/photos/duck-lake-sunset-dusk-silhouette-185014/

José Cañas - Architecture Blend (postmodern constructivism)

 

I took an original photograph of the BELK GYM and stacked its ribbed concrete tiers into a taller, heavier structure. Piled up this way, the building stops being a place where weights are lifted and becomes the weight itself: a giant stack of plates with the antenna rising through the middle like the pin on a weight machine. The ordinary campus around it stays untouched, so the contrast between a normal day and the load being carried inside feels heavier. The image is about progressive overload, the idea that strength comes from constantly adding more, and it asks whether that pressure, in the gym and in college life, makes us stronger or just heavier.

Ryan Black - Architectural Blend

 

My work takes screenshots from Google Earth of all the different buildings and homes I've lived in, and merges them together. Where you live dramatically affects who you are/become, we all know this. And so you as a person are a chimera of these places and the experiences you had at each of them. But as you move forward through time, we all tend to forget the details of things and whole chunks of time can start to blend together too.

I chose to leave the Google Earth watermark in on some pieces because, well it's easier to just leave it there, but I also believe it saves my concept by saying that the only way I can readily interact with these places now is through photos or screenshots since the physical buildings are not mine anymore. That's also why I chose to not feature any doorways or walkways, because I can't actually enter these places anymore (unless you count the garage doors). I wanted the whole setting to be a little uncanny or dreamlike, which is why the background is the way it is. An empty barren plain, with a featureless, oversaturated sky, and some unassuming mountains on the horizon, all of which are from images I personally captured.

What parts and pieces I chose to use was largely determined by how easy and clear they were to manipulate in photoshop. Sometimes in Google Earth a tree is just in the way of a whole third of a house and so it just felt more practical to try and work around that, than trying to forcibly remove the obstructions. I'm 

Carving Into Identity - Architectural Blend_Kyiah Vann

I blended an ornate, monumental pavilion section from the Louvre Palace (Louvre Museum) in Paris, France, called the Pavillon Mollien, with the "Self-Made Man" statue by Bobbie Carlyle (located on UNCC campus). 

This architectural blend explores individual agency and institutional history. Combining the Pavillon Mollien with the "Self-Made Man" produces a visualization of human determination. I aimed to position the grand, imperial architecture of the Louvre as a symbol of established societal structures, while the active figure represents the individual breaking free & shaping their own place within history. This blend produces a unique monument to willpower, personal growth, and the timeless struggle to carve out a legacy within a structured world. 

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https://unsplash.com/photos/pavillon-mollien-at-the-louvre-paris-XyByRjSLkt8

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=ship&search_type=usertyped&asset_id=389645554

 

My concept was to blend corporate fast food chains into a small town that invites tourism. This picture is from a town in Greece, and the only visible advertisement is a small hotel. Tourism has led to a loss of individuality; towns offer similar experiences to tourists and lose the unique qualities that shaped them. Corporations and large businesses take over towns, which hurts the local community's shops. The overall idea is just making the assimilation of experiences bold in people's view. Some might not notice the repetitive experiences that carry over to each town. So taking the common experience of food helps get the point across about the subtle takeovers. I wanted the restaurants to take over the view and fill the audience's eye with advertisements.

Sources:

Photo of Tim Hortons:

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Photo of McDonalds:

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Photo of McDonalds Sign:

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Photo of KFC:

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Photo of KFC Sign:

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Photo of Starbucks:

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Photo of Starbucks Sign:

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