The University of Tulsa campus is the home of three fountains: the one within Hurricane Plaza, another in the Samson plaza, and the Geneva King Rogers Fountain located in front of the administration building on the Chapman commons. However, the focus of this essay is simply on two of them, the Hurricane Fountain within the Hurricane Plaza, and the Geneva King Rogers Fountain.
The first fountain of focus is the one located within the Hardesty plaza known as the Hurricane Fountain. The Hurricane Fountain designed by artist Arthur Curry is an example of a Hard Form 2 type fountain. This typology was decided because the focus of the fountain is the large dark imposing structure at the center. Mainly inorganic and incredibly symmetrical in shape …show more content…
Incredibly public and located outdoors the Geneva King Rogers Fountain is a Fluid Form 10. The complete absence of any visible structural sculpture within the fountain is the reasoning behind such a high ranking on the typology. Due to the fact that entire fountain is composed of series of streams of water jetting into the sky in a rather structured inorganic fashion, medium height on the far ends, highest in the middle and lowest in-between, creates a sense of extremely negative space and a light mass. While the water is spraying and is a shot rather high in the air there is no variation in the waters height or direction making the fountain only slightly kinetic, borderline static. The passive textured, smooth and polished, rectangular base of light natural color stone doubled with the spray of the water shooting into the air gives the illusion of an empty rectangular prism around the shape of the fountain occupied only by the light naturally lit spray of the water. This extreme emptiness and use of negative space to create an open volume, coupled with the primary focus on the water is what pushes this fountain on the far end of the typology to a …show more content…
Both are rather large primary works that draw the attention in public outdoor locations. The Geneva King Rogers Fountain is primary as is it mimics the shape of the building behind it, similarly the Hurricane Fountain plays of its surrounding buildings as well as they seem to spin around the sculpture the same way its carved cut out paths spiral around the fountain. Even though one is comprised solely of an organic fluid substance both incorporate the use of inorganic shape and are incredibly rigid and structured. Despite their structured and inorganic shape both use the water and specifically its disintegration from stream into spray, the transformation of a line into droplets, to create a sense of kinetic movement. As a result of the water being various degrees of kinetic in both fountains they are also both rather active in regard to the water that is incorporated into their design. While the two fountains are largely different they do have similarities mainly their location and active use of
The first fountain of focus is the one located within the Hardesty plaza known as the Hurricane Fountain. The Hurricane Fountain designed by artist Arthur Curry is an example of a Hard Form 2 type fountain. This typology was decided because the focus of the fountain is the large dark imposing structure at the center. Mainly inorganic and incredibly symmetrical in shape …show more content…
Incredibly public and located outdoors the Geneva King Rogers Fountain is a Fluid Form 10. The complete absence of any visible structural sculpture within the fountain is the reasoning behind such a high ranking on the typology. Due to the fact that entire fountain is composed of series of streams of water jetting into the sky in a rather structured inorganic fashion, medium height on the far ends, highest in the middle and lowest in-between, creates a sense of extremely negative space and a light mass. While the water is spraying and is a shot rather high in the air there is no variation in the waters height or direction making the fountain only slightly kinetic, borderline static. The passive textured, smooth and polished, rectangular base of light natural color stone doubled with the spray of the water shooting into the air gives the illusion of an empty rectangular prism around the shape of the fountain occupied only by the light naturally lit spray of the water. This extreme emptiness and use of negative space to create an open volume, coupled with the primary focus on the water is what pushes this fountain on the far end of the typology to a …show more content…
Both are rather large primary works that draw the attention in public outdoor locations. The Geneva King Rogers Fountain is primary as is it mimics the shape of the building behind it, similarly the Hurricane Fountain plays of its surrounding buildings as well as they seem to spin around the sculpture the same way its carved cut out paths spiral around the fountain. Even though one is comprised solely of an organic fluid substance both incorporate the use of inorganic shape and are incredibly rigid and structured. Despite their structured and inorganic shape both use the water and specifically its disintegration from stream into spray, the transformation of a line into droplets, to create a sense of kinetic movement. As a result of the water being various degrees of kinetic in both fountains they are also both rather active in regard to the water that is incorporated into their design. While the two fountains are largely different they do have similarities mainly their location and active use of