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The (hopefully) last draft!
After my desk crit with ajarn Komthat, he suggested me with the idea of the stealth air plane, having many edges on its surface to weaken down the radar signal. It can be adapted to use with my idea of seeing and hiding by creating such a surface with using different materials like reflection mirror panes, transparent mirrors, glass panes and concrete as I have thought about. So here is my new scenarios :
You are walking down Payathai road and ahead of you is a stack of concrete blocks which would bring 6 meters up above the ground. In your sight now is a bridge with a crumpled -paper-like surface . At some point, it reflects the sky, where at some other you see through the glass. Glass panes, mirror and concrete are randomly placed at different angles to form the structure. Stairs at the four sides are tubes that poke into this space. Ahead of you is a stair with an extraordinary orientation. Its steps are around the shape of the enclosed space. Some steps are at the position of the openings on the wall and they reposition the openings to the ceiling. You move through the space while observing the surrounding through the openings at different angles.
Along the walkway on the bridge, you are now covered in the crumpled paper shelter and again, alike the outside, different views are seen at different angles. Sky is still seen at the spots it was reflected as far as you could remember. Like the sky exists on its surface. However, where you saw through at the outside, they are reflecting the inside now. You did not experience seeing the outside at the south yet but expect it to be similar.
Upon your way down is a narrow exit, situated towards the South. It expands as you move down and at the last step to the ground, it doubles the width.
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If you are to walk back the same way you have gone through, entering the expanding stair to exit the rotating one. Apparently, now the width keeps shrinking along the way up. The route is familiar to you and you remember seeing the sky.
When you are moving to another side, you see similar views at different angle from the time you walked from another side. However, the feature that mingles your mind now is the size of the panes above your head that is getting smaller and smaller while directing your way to the exit.
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On the West side, another stair, apart from the one you used as the exit, consists of a series of unequal steps. You are given the freedom to choose your own path along the way. The width and height of the steps vary without a format like you are climbing up a rocky hill.
On the bridge, it provides you with various views through different mediums which are different in shape and size. Towards the end of the walk, you come to realize that the bridge and its stair share a similarity despite their appearances.
The exit leads you to the South, it is now a stair with different material from any other. Apart from the steps, they are made out of glass, similar to those on the bridge. It allows you to see the surroundings as you are walking down before coming to realize that it reflects you and the surrounding at the outside.
When at night comes, it goes another way round. Like having x-ray eyes, you see through the mirrors that reflected you earlier. Along the walkway with lights on, your reflections appear on both side with the never-ending width of the stair, so does the multiply of you. It is no different on the bridge either, through those spaces that you saw the outside, they are replaced with your reflection.
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Drawings and others will come afterwards. I think by doing it this way, the bridge can provide different impressions for users from different directions as I have suggested to you earlier. For the rotating stair, I think I prefer to keep it a steady one because what I want from it is just the illusion of moving. My experiment with the "going down when actually going up" stair was not very successful. It is qutie convincing in 2D but not really in 3D.