Day 8: Presentation day. Some amazing work being displayed in front of Frank (one of the trustees restoring Elizabeth Gaskell's house.)

Process of development: Window view

Process of development of our model: Elizabeth's dining room

Process of development of our Model

Final presentation

Final model

Putting together the final model

Installing the detailings

The brown wood stain is painted to replicate the wooden structure of the house

Descending frames creating illusional 2D space

Just before installing the miniature detailings. The wall is covered with pale green deteriorating wallpaper to portray the undergoing restoration process and also adapt the masculine feature of the space.

Engineering the projection of wood graining.

A couple of the final models ready to be presented.

Prototypes becoming the final model.

Developing ideas for the final model.

Projection by final model.

Process of putting the final model together.

Completed experimental model with interior.

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

Tall windows in the morning room-Elizabeth Gaskell house

Morning Room plan, Elizabeth Gaskell House.

Final presentation to Frank

Reinterpretations // Light & Pattern

Presentations.

Presentations.

Presentations.

Presentations.

Ready to go.

Putting together the booklet.

From this angle you can see the different elements of our model and all of the details we found the most important to the house

This is what the model began to look like once we hung the elements from the inside of the frame.
We did not do any of the objects to scale and decided this looked more interesting.

We collected vintage objects from charity shops to include within our diagram model.

As you can see here we mounted all the images onto foamboard to make them look 3d

We made many elements to hang from the inside of the frame such as chairs, books, fireplaces and picture frames which would show all the elements of the house we found interesting.
We created these buy mounting images onto foam board and hanging them by chains.

We wanted the exterior to look as through it had the same wood grain that is located around the house, we achieved this wood stained look using watered down brown acrylic to accentuate the grain on the timber.

On the inside of the frame we decided to show the wallpaper, I wanted the wallpaper to look as though it had deteriorated to replicate the true look of the interior of the house at this present time. Parts of the wallpaper are restored and so they are in tact, and parts of the walls are peeling and damaged. I achieved this look by doing image transfers using emulsion and a sponge

Lighting test.

We decided that our model would reflect the detailed elements of Elizabeth Gaskell's house, such as the wallpaper and carpet patterns, the lamp shades and the servants bells. We decided to ignore scale and to focus on the elements of the house that we found the most interesting.
Our model began at creating a timber frame as you can see here

'opened' model with torches.

Final model of the project.

Assembled frames of the model.

brainstorming in lesson.

group discussion

Experimenting with light

Wallpaper ready for the final models

The final version of our model, with the conceptual model. The different combinations of light patterns created are shown on the right.

the early stages

Day 7: Final model finished.

The final model- representing a view from Elizabeth Gaskell's dining room bay window and the three views that may have inspired her. The model is a take on a victorian style toy theatre and contains moving shutters to control which views are visible and moving characters

creating views using a victorian style miniature theatres frame

Assembling our final model

Final output

Miniature theatre and window shutters making process

Spending one day to visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Draft photocollage of the House.

Outside the Dining room

Skylight: Light Technology

Oil lamp in the servants' quarter.

Maquette

Group involved in model making

Dining Room reinterpretation

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

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

finalised the bade of the mode.

Figures on stage.

Our testing maquette.

Trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

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

Day 6: Fabrication of model in the workshop.

Mr and Mrs Gaskell

Interpreting sculptures and Manchester Art Gallery

Days 5 and 6, 08.05.14 - 12.05.14:
Model making in progress! Some innovative ideas in this group

The cutout of regency wallpaper designs to produce shadows from.

test modeling!

So lovely to see the progress of the house's restoration.

YSP

Test model- Dining room bay window maquette

Post 5: Work began on our 'frames'
this is a wooden structure descending in hight towards the back to create depth.