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The installation prepared for a public display

Observing and exploring the context around the Withington Baths for site analysis.

Figures on stage.

Our testing maquette.

Stretching out the net to work out where the hats will be hung from and how much it will give under their weight.

Day 5: Laser Cutting session, we managed to almost complete our model, we have few more details to complete for the model. The next and last session will be finishing everything of by placing everything on the presentation sheets.

Trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Working on the construction and decoration of the installation and preparation the plants for the public exhibition.

Session 5. Development of our idea. Proposed program for café, located on the first floor where the concierge house used to be.

making the mold for the mold

concrete - getting the formula right

Introduction to the project which theme is about encouraging people to do home gardening, followed by a visit to the Hulme Community Garden Centre.

everything we could think about the Elizabeth Gaskell's house as inspiration for our final design

Our component is all printed out were now making the mould for the alginate to fill so we can get mass producing these components out of concrete to be assembled on the 1st floor

our initial design for the components to sit on- arch support

Day6:
In day 6 we started to build a smaller structure which will accommodate a laptop, which will be playing a video of the building of the first structure.

Day5: (Part 2)
In second part of day 5 the structure was completed.

Day5:
In day 5 we came up with a final idea for the structure and started to make the structure outside, on the ground floor of Chatham in the courtyard.

Day2
In day 2 we received the excess coffee powder from the coffee machines at the cafe in Chatham, and used that as soil to grow our mushrooms in which has been proven to work, we nuzzled the coffee excess into see through plastic bottles and seed of the Oyster mushrooms.

all our experiments with materials

casting experiments

Comparison to when it is completely flat to folded.

Day3:
In day 3 we went to the Biospheric Farm, to get a broader idea of what our objectives were.

Unfolding, folding and putting up.

Day1:
In day 1 we had to come up with ideas for a structure to accommodate the mushrooms.

Presented our final ideas in the class, and then discussed how we can improve them before handing in.

5th Session: Final review on the urban intervention proposal by the participants.

In order to make the structure more compact, added lines were made so that the panels could fold without changing the design again. The illustration shows the extra lines and a paper model was made to test it out.

13/5/2014 - The shop window showcasing the works of the students, the grumpy website link, and the reflection of me.

Day one:
At our first group meeting we got to know each other and understand better the notion of "wearable shelter". After that we were paired in groups of two, sketched some outfits and discussed our ideas.

13/5/2014 - The poster with the images of students' works for the public exhibition in the city centre.

Proposal development.

Final Central library sketch.

Once again the Central Library!

Quick sketch in the Central Library.

The different patterns that the shelter could be folded into. First is how it is folded, second is flat and the third is how the shelter would stand in the arch.

First sketching activity at the Central Library.

13/5/14 -setting up in progress

A photo taken with Lydia Northhall, a representative from Grumpy with all the coordinators.

The founder of Biospheric Foundation, Vincent Walsh explaining how the forest garden works by natural woodland ecosystem.

The site before and after clearing. It's flat now with flagstones laid on top so that the base can be put tomorrow.

digitally rendered initial sketches

Day 5
Digging!

Day 4
Cutting the furniture for the shelter

S5: Workshop day, dealing with the timber frame.

In the workshop cutting down pallets for furniture!

S3-S4. Sketch up model made for the final proposal- timber frame as basic structure, equipped with a simple hydraulic system.

out of 4 design ideas we chose this idea

on day 4 each group gave presentation of their own proposal and out of all those proposal one was selected.

We are now putting all the information together from all different groups to find the relation between our data. For example our age groups data can be highly related with the renting price data and how students tend to live in cheaper areas rather the most expensive ones.

Day 4: The composition of sketches, photos and text I produced to demonstrate my proposal.

We have gtahered all the information from two different cesus: The newest one and the one before Manchester Victoria University and UMIST joined together.

We are now mapping all the information and looking at the concentration of students at different times and districts.

intervention proposals

site sketch

site sketches, Northen Quarter

review of proposals

Day 4: We presented and reviewed our sketches and proposals for the urban infill project from the previous session.

More cartography precedence...

More cartography precedence...

What cartography to represent our nationality & first and second language data with. Some precedence that has shaped our design.

Introduction to data city, one of the main focuses Cartography.

Day 5: Presentation of Mark Murphy on 'Place and Thinking'.

Day4: Creating first ideas for Sale.

On the second day we fine tuned our design. We found the fold pattern we chose did not go flat enough for the structure to be feasibly transported. To solve this we added a Y shaped fold down the middle of the horizontal folds. This idea came from looking at models we had made on day one.

The next step was model our shelter on SketchUp. This helped us present our idea to the group on day three. It also made it easy to show how the design could be expanded.

We also tried using materials to give texture to our moulds so that they get printed onto our components as well.

We tried to experiment with concrete casts and weighed the pros and cons of using it.

Since our previous attempts at the plaster components failed, we tried to use other materials to cast into the moulds.

I plan to use this origami surface to develop into a shelter. It looks complex but can easily be divided into a grid and repeated.

Closed

Open

Good job

Scale model and 1:1

We built an arch out of cardboard for support, but it was too huge to build, so we scrapped the idea and moved on to something else.

Final adjustments

After practicing origami folding techniques on day one, we started applying our shapes into a shelter for after a disaster has struck.

Taping the joints

Marking out the shapes from a template

another origami emergency shelter!