JANIS BOWLEY

 

Yanis Ertmanis' room

THE GREEN ROOM

Overview

The building is a tall rectangular pagoda with a fluted roof. It represents the best of all chinoiserie-style elements in vogue nearing the twentieth century, from the Tiepolo-style monochrome panel paintings to the tones of muted emerald, orange salmon, pistachio cream white, ochre gold, pink terracotta and cream grey marble. The room is essentially a stately rectangular pagoda/gazebo with a tent like roof that follows its tent like configuration into the ceiling. Inside the predominantly green room the corners of the walls have been chopped diagonally to create a hexagonal feature to house a very tall apse niche displaying statues.

Full Interior Architectural Pattern

The architectural pattern of interior design elements include:

Entrance door ED, Panel Wall PW. Niche N, Window W.

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Proposed Image Architectural Pattern

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The Stool as Measurement Tool

The stool is a proportional device that is reflected throughout the room. Its height and depth is three quarters of its length. The floor plan is of similar proportions to the stool. The proposed view is visually cutting in half of two windows on either side of the room both leading to the feature wall. The feature wall is 11 stools lengths wide and 11 stool heights high etc. The niche is 2 stool widths deep, the panel wall is 2 stool widths wide.

The marble floor

The marble floor has an almost dusty rose and a grey/cream checkered pattern lain on a diagonal and appearing diamond shaped from this view. The niche creates a diagonal at each corner, the line of the niche is exactly parallel to the floor marble. To create the diagonal from the right angle corner the niche extends 2 stool widths in both directions. The panel wall next to the niche sticks out 1 stool depth. From the outside corner of the panel walls you would draw a diagonal line this will create a hexagonal feature.

The marble border design

There is a grey/cream border that is exactly 1 stool depth deep, the border travels all the way around the room and into the half round base of the niche cavity. The grey/cream border is delineated with a dusty rose border which is created by replacing the last cream checkered tiles with rose marble.

The ceiling

The ceiling is an octagonal shape, it is peaked tent like, it is stark white with a substantial green border and an equally substantial white border that rims the green walls.

The niche

The niche creates a diagonal at each corner, the line of the niche is exactly parallel to the floor marble. To create the diagonal from the right angle corner the niche must extend 2 stool widths in both directions. The niches are are elongated apses with a domed tops, they are open at the bottom allowing the grey cream marble to fill its space, the niche interior is painted in green shades and bold marbleization. At the arched top of the niche is a panel that continues up to the ceiling. The panel is 1 stool height high at its peak

The Statues

The statues are figures in black robed tunics that reach mid calf. They are three stool heights high.

The figure on the left has a rich red tunic that peeks just below the skirting of the black tunic. The red tunic almost reaches the base creating a shadow in fact the lower half of the niche is in so much shadow that the black tunic almost disappears it is a deep rich red that brightens the corner subtly, with a band of gold edging it. The black tunic has two white bands from the mandarin collar down the front , along the bottom and up the side vents. The edging rims the drooping sleeves, the figure has its hands outstretched palms up as in offering, the hands and face are stark white, his black hair is pulled tight to the head in a bun, samurai like. The shoulders and head are silhouetted by the green marbleized background.

The figure on the right has an all black tunic with a green square with an insignia on his chest. Below the black tunic is a rich blue under-tunic that reaches his feet. Just like the other statue the hands are outstretched the face is also white. There is an almost floppy black box hat with a black feather plume perking up at the back like a perky fuzzy cat tail.

The bases

The bases are mottled green blocks exactly the same size as the stools with a bevel at the top exactly as deep as the stool’s platform. On top of the base and set in slightly is a golden coloured stone slab the same height as the green leather pad seat.

The Top Panel

The top panel encloses the dome of the niche. It is flat at the top and arched at the bottom. It is one stool deep at the peak of the arch. It has a substantial green border and a gold, wide, inner frame, an organically shaped, rim of foliage delineates the cream white panel. The white inner panel is devoid of imagery except at the centre of the panel, the green foliage is clumped into a ball giving the panel the appearance of an eye.

The painted panel wall with wainscoting:

The wainscoting

The green wainscoting is two stool widths wide and and two stool heights high. A stool is placed on the floor right in the centre of this wainscoting. There is always a triple gold border in this case there is a gold line just below the panel then another line directly underneath then there is an gold rimed beveled, green inner panel.

The painted panel

The painted panels show three egg-shaped wreaths that join like figure eights. The lowest wreath is the most egg-shaped, the middle wreath is more long oval shaped and the top wreath is almost skull shaped. The wreaths are of thin green leaves that droop in arches the first two wreaths have clumps of foliage at the bottom (imagine holding up an egg and only at the very bottom is there imagery the rest of the egg is creamy sky), while the very top wreaths have foliage that drops right where the cheekbones on a skull would be while inside is a flying bird or two. The lowest wreath has a vague image of buildings or shrines nestled amongst the leaves, while the middle of the egg-shaped foliage vine has some fronds of leaves have arched their way inward. The middle wreaths each have figures submitting something to a shrine, they have robes on and hair in high peaked bun the image is small and at the bottom of the egg while near the middle of the egg some fronds of leaves have arched their way in. All the paintings are on a cream background while the figure and leaves a rendered in varying shades of green and orange salmon. Around the outside of the wreath and contained by a green outer border is a salmon crosshatch trellis design.

The box window with wainscoting:

The wainscoting

The green wainscoting is three stool widths wide and and two stool heights high. Two stools are placed on the floor right in the centre of this wainscoting with a space one third chair widths between them. There is always a triple gold border in this case there is a gold line just below the panel then another line directly underneath then there is an gold rimed beveled, green inner panel.

The window

The window is three stools wide, on either side of the window is a painted panel wall two stools wide and on both ends are niches that are two stools wide. The nook instep of the window is one stool depth deep while the wainscoting area sticks out one third of a stools depth. The window is eight glass panels high and five panels wide and is topped by a subtle wooden arch. The side panels of the nook start as two gold square frames just above the sill that are sitting under a long rectangular gold frame that goes the full length of the window. Above the window there is a rectangular frame that follows the arch.

The top panel

The arched panel that also occurs over the niche is one stool heights down, the panel has gilded molding that surrounds white panels that contain leaf wreaths with a clump in the centre - when you squint they look like eyeballs above both niches while the panel above the window is virtually blank white.

The chandelier

Dropping down from the white ceiling as a crystal chandelier. To visualize its shape imagine the front view of an ant its roundish head merges with its roundish chest, now imagine it is on the ground and all its feet are brought in close, where the calf area is is all crystal while the bent legs are of gold. Now imagine that the ant has raised its thorax high up, the tip of the thorax is attached to a gold chain reaching the ceiling.