Annie Pfeiffer Chapel from the outside
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel interior view
If you look at the lower art of the junction between the two block walls (in the centre of each image) you can see the damaged section that reveals the cavity wall construction shown in the view below.
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel detail of wall construction
All the images are of the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel by Frank Lloyd Wright at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. Usual procedure for resolving the 3D pairs of images.
Lunar Module
An exterior view of the lunar module. A few people have commented that some of my drawing instruments resemble this craft, and the legs of Instruments Four, Five, Six, Seven and Eight have similar leg geometry although the sections and character of the legs are very different – and they are tripods rather than quadrupeds (the Lunar Module is the latter). They also share a two part organisation with a lower supporting element holding the more active programs. There was certainly never any intention to mimic the lunar module in the drawing instruments but it is something I like very much – a simple interior with program shrink wrapped around it.
This is from the Saturn Five Hall at Cape Canaveral, and the architecture of the hall provides a noisy background for this wonderful object so I have posted a close up of the core of the Lunar Module. I also took some wider views where it separated from the background when viewed stereoscopically. I might post some more general views later.
As usual, to view the images in 3D go cross-eyed until a common feature in the two images registers over the other image. Try to relax for the three dimensional depth to improve. If you are finding it hard to register, shift your head slightly to get the horizon to align.
Lunar Module Interior
An interior view of the Lunar Module – thanks again for the drawings, Anne!
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
The blocks in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Annie Pfeiffer Chapel at the Florida Southern College are some of his most elaborate, made possible partly through cheap student labour. The blocks have stained glass inserted into them, a combination of a larger L-shaped piece at either end of each block and smaller square pieces along the top and bottom. The inside and outside skin are made of identical blocs, with a cavity in between. The blocks are a composite wall and window. Here are a bunch of interior and exterior details.
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel (exterior)
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
Buckner Building
We visited Florida Southern College to study Frank Lloyd Wright’s concrete block designs for the seven buildings he built there. THis is the Thad Buckner Building, formerly the E.T. Roux Library completed in 1945.
Buckner Building
The blocks are a development of his textile block work in Los Angeles from the ’20s and have similar joint details (I will post some pictures of some of these where the walls have failed). The character of the work emerges though his invention of these building elements. There are abundant technical problems with the blocks (the accelerated decay gives some of his buildings a picturesque quality) but I find them really helpful in thinking through how to make building components that are appropriate to the content of the architecture.
Buckner Building
Buckner Building
Crawler driving past VAB
Some more views of the crawler. The view above is from the interior of the Vehicle Assembly Building as the crawler is driving by. The images below are of the same crawler driving towards the launch sites, with attendant water spray trucks.
Crawler
Walkway
We visited Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, today. The main reason was to look at the ambitious concrete blocks (which I will post about soon) that Frank Lloyd Wright developed for the project. He built seven buildings on the campus and made proposals for others. These are some of his walkways to protect from the Florida sun.
Walkway
Crawler seen from Launch Control Centre
The crawler carried the Saturn Five rockets of the Apollo program and the Space shuttles to the launch sites, keeping the load level as it climbed the hill up to the launch pad. Here is a view of a naked crawler (without the steel box that holds the rocket during launch) crawling towards the launch sites. We were told it was testing its new disc brakes. The view is from the launch control centre.
Crawler
It runs on a bed of rocks buried six feet in the ground.
Crawler
You can see the new disk brakes at the end of the engines, with the callipers painted bright blue
Crawler
Crawler
Crawler
I will post a few more pictures of the crawler when I have a minute.
Saturn Five Rocket Motor
Rocket motors from the giant Saturn Five rockets, the lowest stage above and the middle stage below.
Usual procedure for viewing them in 3D. The lower image works well and is quite an easy one to register, if you normally have trouble getting the three dimensions.
Saturn Five Rocket Motors
De-mating crane
When the Space Shuttles landed in California they were flown back to Cape Canaveral on top of a modified Boeing 747. The De-mating crane is there to separate the two craft.
As usual, to view the stereoscopic pair go cross-eyed until a common feature in both images resolves into one image in the moddle. Try to relax to get the full stereoscopic depth. You will see three images when the images are resolved – concentrate on the middle one. If you have difficulty doing this, make the image smaller until you find it easy to locate one image over the other.
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