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final 3D model

The finished screen.

All pieces put together, we realised that cardboard wasn't probably the best option of material due to its rigidity. Lets just say there was a lot of tape involved.

Attaching the strings of hats onto the net, the arrangement is based on a grid pattern.

Worked on the most complex design chosen, cutting out 22 cardboard pieces that formed the large 4 metre pop-up tent.

Our last day working as a group gathering together our sketches, pictures and information to create the two A2 presentation boards ready for our review tomorrow.

Short montage showing the process that our team had been doing in the event Sound and Space.

Human chain: collecting the strings of hats together in the right order, then passing them up to the people on the scaffold so the strings could be hooked onto the net.

Presentation time! Urun, the second year tutor, along with Fari analysed each design, and provided us with constructive criticism on improving the design to suit the needs. From the 4 presentations, 3 designs were chosen based on simplicity and overall cost and unfortunately the honeycomb structure had a high cost leading to the design being aborted.

Shaping the hats before they were attached to the net.

Came up with designs for pop-up shelter since there was a change in the original plans of 3D printing a prototype structure. We used the designs from the previous origami session to come up with unique shelter. The idea behind our design was the honey-comb structure and how it can be connected to nearby tents of a similar shape. The structure needed 3 poles in order to be put up.

Introduction to emergency shelters in the morning which provided us with a brief, which required us to design a temporary shelter that could be used by the inhabitants for the length of a year. The afternoon was followed by a session of origami that should link to the shelter. Very informative day !

Ben, giving briefing about the 3D printer.

On our last meeting we presented our final proposal and the fifth year students gave us feedback on our work. The event was considered a success.

We made some changes regarding the final design of our proposal. The frames of the structures would be 3 meters apart and the 'screen' between them would be a wattle structure (in the construction of which the local community could take part). Within the wattle vegetation may grow

site : market street, manchester // highlighting the pedestrian

After our visit to China town, we came up with ideas for our design prospect.

Taking back the printed sound to site.

Event 07 - Emergency Shelter Design test modeling

Day 05 - 07/05/2014 : Creative Writing

Our team at site with the sound printed in 3D. The project was a success

Second sketch of the city centre - Market Street. The volume of people is much higher and movement of people dominates the image, buildings and structures are forced into the background, much how a shopper thinks.

playing around with Processing software and learning how to code the software to design.

Work in progress.
Drawing a comic book using Northern Quarter as an inspiration. I'm trying to combine pictures of different sites with the comic book drawings.
The story is inspired my the people we met during this event.

And in the final day we presented our design ideas to the whole group,our 5th year coordinators,David and Eddy.It was very interesting watching presentations from the other groups as well because we all had to design with the same aim but every group chose a different aspect to develop and change for the future of China town.Designing a site considering the character that it creates and especially when it has to do with a whole new culture was a very useful aspect that events tought us to consider from now on this year.In the picture you can see our final masterplan with a section through the middle of it which was part of our final outputs for the event.

Day 7: 15.05.14
A brilliant end to a fantastic workshop with some excellent presentations given to Frank. Well done!

And this is the image included in the presentation sheet. We made a few sketches and photoshop image to demonstrate how our client use our product .

After our research on Chinese culture and the Feng Shui,we started investigating ways of interpreting these elements with our site in China town.The picture shows a sketch that we produced in that stage of the design.It is actually showing how could we use these elements in the car park site of China town in order to give it the character as well as the function that we needed.

Event 07 - Working on building a model of emergency shelter design

We took photograph of the model and started to edit it by photoshop. As our client is a girl dancer, we decided to add flowery patterns on it in order to make it looks more fancy and feminize.

Event 00 I Was Here ( our event ) - Induction in using Lomography cameras

We lacer cut our model and built it out together.

sounds recorded along Market street being generated in 3D form by using Processing.

We have designed the presentation sheet's background as well as illustrated the client. Also, we started to do the autoCAD drawing for the laser cutting.

In the event program we went to the present China town of Manchester to identify the elements of surprise and that of course were the amount of food waste along the side street of the restaurants. Our objectives in this event was to come up with a solution to fix this problem and that was to create a waste deposit garden, using waste to create compost so local restaurants use this facility to grow food themselves .

View from the gallery of the church

Final design proposal for client presentation tomorrow. Through simplification of the path network we created nodes which act as areas for community activities/facilities. Tensile shelters will make these spaces usable all year round

Close up2

Close up1

First day of building!

Axonometric of the screen

Screen Completed!

Technical decisions

Pointing out the difficulties we might face

structure to support film of process

DAY3 / Experimenting with clay and plaster. Learning new techniques.

To journey in the context of landscape is to reconnect to a deeper part of ourselves, to not be connected with others and their ideas, but share a deeper sense of ‘quale’ that architecture negates in its need to secure, commodify and make accessible. The landscape, desert and forest somehow enhance, magnify and distort the human condition, its very complexity echoing our inner life. John Fowles, in The Tree (1979), likens the forest to our brains, a sort of extended mind where we can hide from the linear thinking of cities and reconnect to our Green Man within: he suggests cities should be more like forests.3 I suggest that architects rediscover the psychological and spiritual benefits of forests, mountains, caves, lagoons, beaches and dells in our attempts at urban planning and architecture.

Louis Kahn called such essential places the conceptual ‘laws’, upon which the architect could then set about ‘designing’, without which, he argued, the rules of design were wasted.4 How often have you seen ‘designed’ architecture and not made any connection with the space? Yet the urge to comprehend and connect with the landscape or use it as a backdrop has possessed Western culture for centuries. Our architecture, from the classical piano rustico and Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘land-huggers’, to the ‘sky hooks’ of the Constructivists and skyscrapers of New York, all have elemental references. Perhaps now such natural references could be more intimate and subtle.
Architectural Design, ‘The New Pastoralists’

DAY6 / Final exhibition day. Each group was explaining their idea. Our group created a tree supporting structure for a small tree using wood we found in the workshops.

DAY5 / Experimenting with reclaimed materials. Choosing our site for the final exhibition. Spray painting the wood.

cantilever
A projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and that carries a load at the other end or along its length
any rigid structural member, esp. one projecting from a vertical support, in which the fixed end is in compression and the free end in tension.

DAY4 / We searched for overlooked places around MMU campus and experiment with micro modelling, by creating detailed little scenes.

Is a 'cantilever' an example of an architectural symbiotic relationship ??

DAY2 / We were introduced to the collaborator Stephen Rimmer. Then we walked around MMU campus, repairing wall parts with lego.

DAY1 / Introduction to the topic of re-appropriacion. Visiting stalled construction sites that have been re-appropriated and discussing how they could be used.

Cymothoa exigua, or the tongue-eating louse, is a parasitic crustacean that enters fish through the gills and then attaches itself at the base of the fish's tongue. It extracts blood from the fish causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching itself to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish.

lichen! They are a perfect example of symbiosis - a fungus and a green alga living in harmony to produce a dual organism. this is Cladonia pyxidata. It has a scale-like squamulose structure and stalked cups called podetia

Starting the finishing pieces, the materials and contours of the project are coming together.

The finished screen acting perfectly as and artistic installation aswell as a functional barrier taking care of all the presented practicalities.

Once the main body of hats were up we began the side which seems to grow upward. We had to construct the screen in sections so that we could avoid damaging the old tile walkway.

Once we were inside the tunnel we could sense the screens sculptural nature

The net responded well to the weight but once we tightened the straps it became more proportionate.

Testing the first layer of hats to check how the net responds to their weight.

That was one of the preliminary stages of our design development.Research about Chinese culture and philosophy as well as Feng Shui were our inspiration for creating our design for China town in Manchester.

Arch complete. Clad in upcycled horizontal pallet strip.

Arch forms made in two pieces to fit around tree

Arch form model with tree

Session 5 // System Dynamics and a Social Experiment

Ulysses began the fifth taught session by introducing the group to 'System Dynamics'. The idea behind this session was for the group to understand basic idea of how games work and in particular the 'If Else' statement.

Each of us was to therefore come up with an 'If Else' statement which would be passed onto the person sat to our right. I gave Toby:

If there's no one stood waiting for a lift in Chatham, go up and press the button and wait in the lobby.

Else, stand on the doorway to the lift and stay there, not letting anybody past.

As a result, there were a few confused people waiting to use the lift as Toby just stood there. This social experiment therefore gave us a basic understanding of 'System Dynamics' and the 'If Else' statement.

Leonardo Da Vinci arch form.Sometime around 1485-1487, Leonardo DaVinci devised a method for building a self-supporting arched bridge that doesn’t require any ropes or other fasteners. The bridge's own weight keeps it together; the more you stack on it, the more stable it gets. It was originally meant to be a quick bridge for military usage

Location:
Possible bench locations around Chatham

Mon 12th May: presentation of our ideas for Withington baths

Session 5 // An Early Visualisation

The group gathered for the fifth session with Eric showing an early visualisation of how the property price data has been coded into ARUPs Manchester City Centre Model. By exploiting the longitudinal and latitudinal information linked to each individual piece of collected data, spheres have been created to denote the data with blue lines showing its connection to the rest of the collected data.

This therefore allowed us to see how our collected data can be extracted from the numbers in spreadsheets to create the visualisations for the Data City app.

coffee grains into empty bottes

Filling bottles with coffee grains and sowing with 'mushrooms'

Session 4 // Extracting the Data

In order for the app to be created, Eric asked for each electoral ward to be separated and created into its own GOOGLE SketchUp file. The purpose of this was to create a mesh for the data to be layered onto during the coding process.