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Second Session: Sketching around Central Library with the Manchester Urban Sketchers.

Third Session: A presentation by the fifth year co-ordinators on Urban Infill. Along with a review of the sketches from the previous session.

30th April - Urban Sketching at Manchester Central Library, recording the people occupying the space.

Day four:
After going through all sorts of ideas, from a purse which can turn into a carpet, to big hats which cover the whole body, we've decided to produce an umbrella chair and a big skirt which is, in fact, a tent.

Day in studio reviewing sketches and ideas. Second half of the day was spent re-working the drawings.

First Session: A presentation given by Simone Ridyard on Urban Sketching. Simone explained what her group, the Manchester Urban Sketchers do. Also, she gave us tips on sketching while showing us examples of her work.

Day three:
On our third meeting we went to Grumpy, where we have looked through all sorts of recycled materials and decided which ones would be the best for our wearable shelter. It was a fun day, as we also had the opportunity to play with the materials and create test models.

This image to the rear of our catwalk site. The site, St. Marys church Stockport is the oldest church in the parish of Stockport.

Day two:
I found the meeting with Dr. Annie Shaw truly inspiring, as she told us about her background and how she got to work in the field of fashion.She listened to our ideas and she helped us with our design, by giving us advice regarding the materials and different techniques for making clothes.

Continuing on the research conducted, we decided we wanted to make better use of the car park space whilst finding ways to deal with Chinatown's huge amount of food waste that is produced daily. The resultant idea is to create A new York "High Line" style raised platform garden which will be bedded with compost created from the food waste.

Investigating Manchester's Chinatown we concluded that it is a badly organised space. It is in a prime location in the centre of the city yet in the middle of Chinatown, there is a car park. Furthermore. This is a serious waste of public space and could be put to much greater use.

The net which we will use for hanging the hats from the church was tested on the 4th floor. Using the large space we tested the hats and worked out key points and locations for the big fit at the end of the week.

Writing the 500 words gave me an interesting insight into modern Chinese urbanism and the the problems it faces with its vast expanse of growth and wealth making. Furthermore it showed that China unlike most industrialised nations is still changing meaning it can adapt to modern day phenomena such as global warming when well established infrastructures in the Western world is very unflexible to change.

Session 4:
With miniature models we were able to be intuitive within the MMU campus, in this case being satirical with the topic of sustainibility

DAY 01: 'Get introduced!' For the first day of our events, we had a field trip to the Hulme community garden. We met Helen (one of the trust member of the garden) to get some knowledge about garden and its clients. With a brief introduction on how she works we were also enriched with the heritage and importance of plants in daily lives. At the later day, we helped Helen in one of her tasks and learnt some basics of plantation.

Outside the Dining room

Skylight: Light Technology

Oil lamp in the servants' quarter.

Maquette

4/.
Those of us in the intervention team had met up to start building the structure. The shape is derived mainly from Leonardo Da Vinci's Arch which is a structurally stable way to design an arch. It was built around the tree in the open space in Chatham because the location of the final placement also changed. It was tied down with rope to the base of the tree for support, a covering of planks to control sunlight and hang the mushrooms from, and it also has benches/steps on either side for relaxing or getting to hard to reach places.

Group involved in model making

Closer look on Tree Graffiti art which has 3 colour layers: Black, Dark Brown and Light Brown.

2/.
The whole day was about understanding the process of economically growing mushrooms and the resourcefulness in local waste. We had a choice of pink, blue and brown oyster mushrooms, which could easily grow in a slightly damp container filled with coffee grounds. We all participated in the planting and the sense of community and doing activities together was enjoyable, which I feel helped us gain ideas about the design of the intervention.

Using paper templates to apply graffiti art on installation

Dining Room reinterpretation

1/.
We started this project by working in groups of four and coming up with ideas of how we could use stackable plastic crates, that some local businesses offered to lend us, into an intervention that we could grow mushrooms and place in All Saints park. We all worked on this large roll of paper, and then would come to an agreement and pick the best idea. Our groups had several suggestions, and one of mine was to create an organic tree-like structure where we can hang the mushroom planters from.

Cutting our 3 set of Tree Templates for Info- graphic

Session 3:
experimenting imaginatively with the relief around the All Saints campus, we created clay moulds

Final Treasure // Following there successful voyage the MSA_pirates captains discovered and conquered the new world.

Dining Room Window 2: This is a narrow window which was used as an emergency exit from the dining room.

Session 2:
Rejuvenating overlooked areas of the All Saints campus through the medium of Lego.

Dining Room Window (centre): This window is on the East and facing towards Elizabeth's garden.

Day 6
A quick go at poster designing but we are going to change the format to match the others. Had a good day collaborating ideas and new designs to come.

Day 5
Began and finished work on our structure after splitting all those palettes up and its looking good!

final proposal in simple blocks roughly drawn on sketch up.

Ready to be 'deployed' tomorrow_1305

Session 1:
[Re-appropriate] - We explored various parts of Manchester visiting abandoned construction sites, encouraging ideas for precedents

Day 7 (13/05/14) : Made a mould of the 3D component using alginate.

Event 22 - Development in making treasure maps

Event 15 - People in workshop working on their prototype model for floating structure

Event 07 - Photographing the process of building a prototype model of emergency shelter design in scale 1:1

Day 6
we pinned up 2 A2 boards at the grumpy store located in Albert square.The boards showed out processes and design of our shelter as well as how its transformed from a clothing into a shelter.

final day taking the printed sculpture back to our site.

By changing one single number in the code the size of the spike can be reduced and the form can also be smoothed at the touch of button

printing the sounds of pica dilly gardens in toxic yellow

Presentation from Brendan Dawes on graphic design and processing

Printed sculpture taken back to site

workshop finalisations on measurements and any needed adjustments.

08.05.14 : Den Building Day
The outcome of the children's hardwork. Their very own DenCity. They build the walls, roof and base out of cardboard materials. They also provide a proper entrance, window openings and a TV set for their den. It was very interestin to witness the children's capabilities in building the den out of materials which need alterings in order for it to work best. The outcomes of all four dens were beyond our imagination. I personally was really impressed.

A visit by group 0

Attaching strings of hats to the net to test whether it will hold their weight.

08.05.14 : Den Building Day
Brandon and his two friends were playing around once the den was finished.They created their own pillow from cardboards and play pretend to be asleep. It's amazing how children were acting so spontaneously in their den.

Site Plan (Part of the final booklet)

Discussing different ways of fitting the lego into the cracks.

08.05.14 : Den Building Day
Each children had their own task/scope of work as discussed with their group. They explore ways to construct from the base towards covering the spaces inside their den. They took their assigned responsibilities really well and were very satisfied with the outcome at the end. The children even highlighted about achieving the aim of having all seven of them to fit inside the den in order to protect themselves from the alien attack.

Run The Jewels in SketchUp

Workshop groups

Some more sketches/Presenting

first model completed

08.05.14 : Den Building Day
The children (in groups) discussed on how they would build their den, with the guidance from the Den Helpers and our Collaborators as well. They learn about give and take situations and the importance of teamwork.

Working on site/using available materials

The last step was to create master plan. We decided to allocate curving path which will connect central pavilion with main path. There is also new access point (moon gates) between car park and garden. New car park can fit around 10 vehicles.

08.05.14 : Den Building Day
Children were divided into four groups and each of them chose their own materials which could help them build their DenCity.

This photo shows the hands on research carried out by Events group 11.

Looking at Brick Patterns

08.05.14 : Den Building Day
Den Helpers are setting up cameras and video cameras for documentation purposes.

08.05.14 : Den Building Day
The materials are laid at the one side so that it could be viewed clearly by the children. Materials are not given directly as to allow the children to make decisions when expanding their creativity.

06.05.14 : Pre Den Building Day
Alivia and her masterpiece. (imaginary DenCity)

Setting up for exhibition in grumpy.

Spent the day in the workshop drilling holes in to the metal spoons from which we would string together with nylon strings. We also spray painted it for an added pop of colour.

The next step was to decide which elements we will include in our garden. We decided to arrange: Tai Chi, praying zone, stone garden and resting area in Chinese Pavilion. We will use various materials: stone, wood, water to put the pressure in to human senses impressions.

Testing and shooting on the Rainny day.

Initial design sketching

Unfortunately our collaborators decided not to let us use the site at piccadilly tram station. Instead we will be making a test model 1:1 scale representing our design idea.

Lego intervention outside of Chatham

DAY 6: Final proposal

finalised the bade of the mode.

First view of the app with just data and no animation.

Geographically mapping data onto oxford road to start the apps programming.