My Final Project Narrative

My big idea for the final project is to capture the historical buildings in the Columbus, Ohio area. The reason I chose this is because I enjoy embracing architectural structures, mainly buildings. Different eras have their own style of architecture and building materials. I am thinking of capturing the minor details of a historical building and how different cultures played a role in them. For instance we see the Masonic structures that have certain traits to the building, such as the cornerstone being laid in the Northeast corner, traditions and different symbolism. Some symbolism would be a checked floor, sacred geometry and numerology incorporated into the building.

In doing some research about the Columbus area, I found it difficult to focus on all the historical buildings. So, I decided to document the oldest buildings of Ohio State University. I think am mainly going to focus on Orton Hall on the historical and symbolical aspects of my project. I would also like to use Hayes Hall and University Hall as a reference for the building materials used. These three building were constructed during the same time period and that is why I would like to use them in contrast. So, in order to accomplish these ideas I need to take some photos, do some historical research and put it all together. My final product would consist of a slide show of the pictures and some sort of textual explanation of my work. I believe I could carry out this with a simple movie editor, putting my photos together. More to follow…

So to finalize my project I did a slideshow movie. I combined the pictures I took and some other pictures that I found on the internet. I also added an old song that was written about the same time period as the building was built. The music is a bit more recent though. I captured Orton Hall as building of historical and creative value.