Early sketch model
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All the installations up together.
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Original concept sketch for a stacked, sculptural shelter.
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Final Presentation Model
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Day 1: Our client Jane, and our site, covered in a deep mound of earth.
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Team Flaus and their anchored shed design.
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Gluing on the hinges for the model
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Gluing on the wheels for the model
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Nexus Art Cafe venue for the final exhibition on 19th May
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Day 4: Laser Cutting the main pieces for the presentation model
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Final discussions of outputs before the exhibition
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Day 5: cutting out some pieces with the ban saw
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Working hard to meet deadlines, in the workshop.
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Measuring out some minor pieces for the model
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As a group we reclaimed unwanted materials and created an object or piece with an entirely new use out of them. With an old clothes horse, folding blind and wood scraps we were able to create a planter to brighten up the MMU campus.
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The floating house boat managed to carry 6 bricks before it started to tip. Pretty impressive!
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Testing time! This model basically survived a road accident and STILL managed to carry all those bricks! Hurrah.
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Day 6: We made a small version of our shelter that we can show on the exhibition
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Just in case. A certified saver of lives was on hand.
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Dry run. Waiting to be tested.
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Each design had a completely different approach to the brief. This design used inflatable plastic pouches.
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Day 5: Volunteers assembling the shelter
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Credits
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Mould made out of the "pink stuff"- didn't quite work
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Last Day:The final outcome of our hard work
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Material testing- concrete, plaster, postcrete in different proportions.
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6th Session: Final exhibition
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Final day of events. Following the public engagement at Stevenson Square we returned the installation to be situated permanently at Hulme Community Garden Centre.
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Using EXCEL to translate the list of numbers into C# language
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Scripting part of transferring the original data
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Use a button to control the appearance of the data layer
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The Coordinators of Sketchtecture Event. Thanks everyone!
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5th and 6th Sessions- The review and exhibition at School. Of course selfie is a must today. :-p
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4th Session- Another picture where everybody was so 'busy' to sketch.
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4th Session: Went to the site for analysis, propose intervention- all by sketching!
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Mapping the data of transport along the oxford road
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06: Game and Programming exploration - having been introduced to a game development programme today I developed my own 2D 'Temple Run' which put into consideration the concepts previously learnt like that of the 'If' statement and new ideas like 'interaction' and 'animation'.
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learning how to code
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Geolocated information
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Learning how to use the make bots, and 3D print
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The sound of market street
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[Mastercraft 003] Communication Skill: public engagement in Stevesnson Square_1405
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Setting up caution line before erecting the installation_1405
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Zoomed in app.
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Testing the visual output of the scripts.
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Event 18 - Plug in Street Art
Installation done!! Now just to Install it...in the right location...
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Eric Cheung aka Neo has been collaborating with the group not only for scripting but explaining system dynamics and urban data.
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Event 19 - Wearable Shelter
You'd never get bored wearing this. *Fingers twitching...must pop bubbles!!*
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Event 19 - Wearable Shelter
A "popping" raincoat
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Working on scripts for each research group within unity - learning to use C# in the process.
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Event 19 - Wearable Shelter
The 'skeleton" of our design
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Event 19 - Wearable Shelter
Experimenting with materials, and discussing designs
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Had to convert the collected information into readable data for the game engine scripts.
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Event 23 - You can leave your Hat on
Starting to see the purpose of all of those hats!! Beginning the installation process
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Event 12 - The Humble Brick
Finalising design details
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Double story Scaffolding assembled and tested. We aimed for the net to be unnoticeable and in this image it achieves this by being nearly invisible.....
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Event 12 - The Humble Brick
Proposed pizza oven design 2
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Event 12 - The Humble Brick
Proposed pizza oven design 1
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All 3 bays hoisted into position and await tweaking once we begin to add weight in the form of our screen.
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Event 12 - The Humble Brick
Group discussions and presentations
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Event 12 - The Humble Brick
Sketches and designs for the pizza oven in a community garden. Can't wait!!
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Eight ratchet straps holding each bay of the net working well. Once the weight of the screen is added the straps will allow us to tighten the net if there is and sag.
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Event 18 - Plug in Street Art
Presenting ideas to the rest of the group about possible installations
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Net set out with perimeter rope threaded and bracing straps attached ready to be hoisted very carefully......
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5.2m batterns moved into position and ready to be strapped down...
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The final structure, a masterclass in the intertwining of beauty and engineering
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Event 04 - Den City
Overall, I think we had a good day
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The fishing team catching a wild Jinxia was an unexpected surprise
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Stacking up the central supporting structure.
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Event 04 - Den City
You could say they really got into their work....
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A tree I liked. In the background our structure begins to take shape.
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Event 04 - Den City
"The design the kids came up with were really creative, they have such powerful imaginations"
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Event 04 - Den City
Helping the Kids and talking about their designs with them
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Loading the van with the pallets.
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The Event: organisation and development
This diagram provides an overall view to the Event. It follows the process behind the development of the initial brief in January, as well as the way all actors interacted with each other through the duration of the last five months.
Orestis, Costas, Aidi.
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Event 04 - Den City
Up on the roof of Chatham, drawing out lots of different ideas for the dens the aliens will be coming to visit!
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Day 6: Install. The groups have placed their interventions in the space in front of the elevators on the 8th floor of Chatham hoping to redefine the waiting moment for the hundreds of students using the elevators every day in Chatham. The reactions of people were recorded and they then evaluated the success of their proposals.
In the photograph you can see Krasimir giving some final touches to the intervention by group 2.
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Counting loops to determine the central point of the net.
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Hanging hats to see how much sag each string would approximately create.
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Day 5: Manufacture. Following some problems we had with our initial site each group will install a sample of their proposal in the space in front of the elevators on the 8th floor of the Chatham building. The groups are making preparations.
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