Pedestrian subway intervention.......passage
Continuing with the driver site::unseen focus had been drawn back to the pedestrian tunnel. Before we had come up with the notion of using this space as a managed graffiti wall, but after playing around with text for the underpass I could not help myself....
Again the lure for creating an experienced subtle phenomena and an ahah! reaction from the person transiting through the tunnel appeals. The first idea I will portray, again in a cad drawing, how the length, orientation and viewing positions; on entry, transit through the tunnel changes how we read and perceive text. As seen below, the first image is of the word passage that has been painted on both walls and in inverse (not reverse). On entry the text can be read very easily and also has the optical illusion of being mirrored which you only question on subsequent glances. 
increasingly elongated, which I believe will subtly cause the
pedestrian to slightly increase pace (to pass through) which in turn distorts perceived time taken to transit the space
(age), as seen on cross section of the tunnel.
Again simple mechanism seen here in a perspective line drawing.
Toying with the notion of subtlety of the unseen I began to overlay block lines that spatially accelerates down the passage way (will be clearer in side cross elevation of tunnel. The effect is to make the text ,on the one hand more iligible when read from within the tunnel,and more obvious when read on entry, which inturn distorts the experience of passage....clarity....ambiguity......clarity.
The wall being nearly solid colour makes the text harder to read on one side, especially when up close......
......with the other side lending a help in hand. This image also shows the accelerating block lines, a system utilized on roads to make drivers slow down towards junctions or roundabouts, by making it appear you are actually accelerating. This phenomena will also work in reverse depending on direction, here you would tend slow down on entry to the park and accelerate towards the road. Its this perceptible bodily response to an environmental activator that would be more illusive, yet profound, than the simple reading of the text.
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Comments
I really like this eye trick!
I think its quite innovative and original. Also the idea of having the text simply be "passage" makes the viewer consider the tunnel quite practically. It brings forth the purpose of the tunnel that wouldn't be given much thought otherwise if one was simply walking through.