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The 2 groups practising their presentations with us before presenting to the clients, last week.

Session_6: Implication & use

10 minute cycle - TIME TO MOVE ON

Technical drawing of custard hydraulic bench

Designing final model in Sketchup.

Sale

Designing final model in Sketch up. This was necessary for confirming measurements of pieces as well as angles, and to remain within given parameters of the brief. (total area: 9m square)

Continuing the process on the design of the building.
Decorating the interior walls with metal rods.

Timetable I created for my group with the rough ideas of when the events would want to be photographed

Finalising design for 1:1 construction. Three designs were finalised from which one had to be chosen for full scale construction. We took part in a presentation, explaining our ideas, and ended up choosing the design on the right.

Session_6: Implementation in MSA foyer

and when it was all done, my destruction plan was about to take place

Session_5: Custard hydraulics

Session_4: Completed bench

Finish Exhibition

First day, Origami folding practice. Some templates were given in the brief while some other designs were also tried out during the day.

Short notes and a sketch during visit at Sale community about an area with high congregation and vandalism due to lack of cctv, excess amount of parking lot, and sociability of residents that share gardens and residents with private gardens.

T' end was nigh! Finally we displayed our work to the rest of the group, other peers, and to the people who had first helped us cultivate ideas surrounding this event. The space was transformed into a pirates lair, with our jewels placed within it. It was an opportunity to reflect and explain our findings, as well as receiving feedback.

the final product. perfect!

when alina takes photos offguard. they end up like this. some chilling after some hard work

Session_3: Structural frame build

Session_2: Reclaimed timber

some support was needed, roof making in the process!

Quick sketch during the visit at Sale community on the basic materials of the local housing, which is pretty much just the ordinary style with bricks and glass.

Session_1: Initial group concepts sketch

floor, it's dooooone

Quick sketch during the visit of Sale community showing the orchards and a garden.

Our Queen Bee symbol on our treasure box, holding information on the city's gems.

An open gym to encourage more social interaction but gives an opposite impact due to the unattractive design according to the residents.

The route taken to get to 'The Portal'.

loading the van. early start to the day

Visited Sale towards the end of the first week. This is a picture that I took outside the tram station. My friends and I had to ask for directions but people were all very helpful and friendly which gives a great impression of the town to us.

T' final outcome! Our group brought our vision together. We isolated our sites on the map, making them more prominent whilst the other parts of the city remained vague. We indicated through pink pins where the chains were, whilst blue pins determined our sites positions, and white pins marked our route. We chose to only label the road names that our route across the city took. For us, this path was the only one to take if you wanted to find the hidden gems within the city, and therefore it was inconsequential to record any other.

At the beginning of understanding the idea of neighborhood, we had to analyze images that are given in groups, in terms of sustainability of infrastructure such as drainage systems, ecological structures, relationship between car-pedestrians, environmental impact and use of materiald

Me treaaye! A book produced that articulated my thoughts surrounding my chosen site, named 'The Watchtower'.

after a whole day of hard work. from removing the soil to cleaning and finally to flattening the ground up and adding the stones. teamwork!

We each had personal vision regarding our site, despite having an overall theme that linked them together. I was particularly interested in why only expensive cars were parked on the top floor of the Great Northern Railway Company car park site; the sense of security seemed to be key. I began modelling the ascent taken by these drivers to their prime parking spot.

The Grand Finale...Hard work has paid off!

Preparing for our final presentation.

You can leave your hat on (the net). Hanging the hats on the net, and making sure there more 3 dimensional.

idea of how sound could be use to get people to leave the bench.

On our last session for event 13, we put together our presentation sheet. Then we presented our design showing its progress from day 1.

Nets up and ready to hang!

making a great use of the final bench.

Our final model at a scale of 1:10

Sun set. Beautiful light conditions.

This day was dedicated to the final high quality model. So we spent the whole session in the workshop after having laser cut all the pieces.

Laser cutting our pieces for our final model.

Testing the net, working out the weight distribution to avoid the net sagging.

mixing cornflour and water together to try and get the right consistency.

This is a small model we made for testing before our final quality model.

model of a ideas for the bench.

We decided to improve our initial design by adding extra components and features such as slides, wardrobe and climbing ropes.

spray painting on our logo.

We added features to the design (slide and rope swing) to make it more interactive. We also agreed on the colour scheme for our unit.

Ahoy! Now aft in Chatham! It was impediment to our group that we avoided chains. In order to make sure our route avoided all of them, we marked out the most prominent brands on a map of central Manchester.

Final day: The bench in-situ

our logo design

cornflour mixing

Final Dayy

This is the 3D model of our green space. The space is divided into two parts. The left part is the space for screening and the right part is a seating space. The water fountain acts as a separation between two area.

Final Day# Information post

Final Day# Double-function installation (Mushfarm and seating space)

Final Day # Hanging mushrooms, MushFarm

We were split in groups at the beginning of the project and each group is assigned with a topic. Our ideas of the project focus on the principle of sustainability. We chose this site out of the whole community to base our proposal on. This is because it contains a large green space with only 1 cctv in the centre which allows lots of vandalisms and crimes from young people. Also the alleyways provide the opportunity for people to run off when they get caught.

Everyone had to come up with a design concept for a furniture, my design idea was to create a multi-purpose furniture which would also provide your own privacy space.

First session brainstorm.

This is a sketch of the existing alleyway in Sale west community, where we visited on the first week of event, to gain more understanding towards the site as well as the term neighborhood.

We had presented our idea to our mentor. We discuss about reason of making the park and the difference between Chinese and western gardens. After the discussion and research, we had decide to put a water fountain into the park as it is an important feature for Chinese garden. The picture shows the proposed circulation of the park

Oops! Missed a day - forgot that on the morning of Archontia's workshop we again filmed, photographed, sketched, and interviewed people on site in real life situations!

Week 2: Re-claiming wood.

(final proposal) This is a perspective that shows the distribution of pavements and defensing plants in front of the houses to increase privacy.

This shows our proposal of changing the distribution of greenland and pavements. There are two seating areas for friendly congregations as well as to increase the sense of safety for people to hang out due to the existing amount of vandalism and crimes. Pavements are well connected and provide a more park-like design.

The next session was a creative writing workshop in Chatham, however an unfortunately timed visit to the US Embassy in London meant that sadly I missed this workshop day. However, I did write the storyboard for my now ANIMATED comic idea - to be interspersed with real film - for the exhibition on Monday 19th.

After supplying Eric with our data (property pricing) the pervious day, we had the first visual of the final application the next day with the data represented in 3d- images. Different sizes of spheres on the image represents different property worth.

So I'm not that good at drawing people in Manga style okay... However, I did have to write a comic book about this so I must plod on!

(final proposal) This is the perspective of the seating area with shelter of our proposal. The seating area sits in the middle of a large green land, which allows residents to interact and gives a more pleasant environment to the area. It also shows the idea of crazy paving instead of ordinary paving method. Yellow is used instead of green to create a more friendly image.

You're not a man, you're just a mannequin:

Today we learnt comic book/sketching skills with Archontia from MSA_Praxis. (I also chatted with her quite in depth about her atelier, but that's a different story.) However, sketching little wooden mannequins in no fun when there are real people in the room sketching mannequins to sketch. So I sketched the people instead. However, these were then to be developed into a comic much like Archontia's amazing portfolio work,. Results to follow.

Group 05: Reinterpretations, model making in the workshop.

DAY 7 // We asked members of the public to assemble our shelters. One of the designs was really easy and they did not need any help, however the other two we had to step in and give them a hand on how to construct the shelters.