Tuesday 30: Today I focused on making the blog posts, I'd been writing my journal entries briefly on paper since the start on paper, but what use was that really because, at the end of the project it needs to be evidenced on the blog, and I was never going to scan the written journal, because I can barely read my own handwriting. Any-who I started with an intro to explain the purpose of the whole thing, and also why the first entry would be published in week 6. In hindsight if I had done it weekly it would have been better and easier, because I'm probably missing stuff out that happen, because I obviously cannot fully remember my thought process exactly from 5 weeks ago. For each of the blog post I've tried to put interesting photos of building or whatever I'm discovering. Published the first two blog posts for journal. No real design development yet, I don't really know where to start so I seem to prefer distracting myself with other tasks in hopes that it will help. I also kinda of got sidetracked into soviet brutalist architecture, and really liked this monument with cubist figures and then found a cemetery in Buenos Aires that also had a figure in a similar style. Both awesome imposing structures really.
Monument of the Bulgarian Soviet Friendship- Alyosha Kafedzhiiski, Eugene Barumov and Kamen Goranov (1978)
Azul cemetery- Francisco Salamone (somewhen in-between 1936-1940)
Wednesday 31: School again today in the morning. Finally got pen to paper and got a few design ideas on paper, very rough ideas, but a start nonetheless so that's all that matters. On that paper there was a drawing of like hockey pucks placed in a staggered manner so that the top of each puck could serve as kind of a mini garden I was thinking. I mean it would make for a cool design I think but I'd need to develop it further. Then theres a couple of plans for layouts and another interesting one is the block with arches plastering the facades. All the drawings there are really basic, but what was good was that I finally got some drawings down and hopefully now I'll just be getting more and more ideas down. I also looked at tiny living and how they made use of the spaces as much of possible, I came across a youtube series called living big, and watched one on a young architect's house and it was really ingenious especially the use of structural beams as storage. Got back home and just continued working on the journal didn't get much done, no new post published today.
Douglas Wan
Thursday 1 April: Finished the journal post the last three weeks, we are now up to date, no more backtracking, which means no longer will their be days just dedicated at writing journal posts. Efficiency. Apart from that not much to be said really about the day, or any decisions made. Today was just a case of taking the notes I had and writing them up.
Friday 2: I started writing up the blog post on the served and servant spaces and as I was going along, I wasn't happy enough with what I had found so i went back and did a tad more research, and found a video that explained it well, and gave other examples that were not from Kahn. I stoped on the served and servant spaces for now and started writing the research into pure geometry. By the end of the day I have two blog posts in the draft. In both posts I explain what the concepts are, but I haven't yet written how they relate to my project and how I will use them, if I use them at all. I got a bit fed up of the writing so I started at looking a student accommodation projects to see how others approached it, and I think I'll also compile those, to go along with the housing projects mood board which also has to be done. I have to say since the beginning of this projects I have been on a lot of architect's official website in a small timeframe and a good few have very confusing websites, that often don't work splendidly. Now I'm obviously no web designer, and don't really know what it takes to make a good functional website but as an observer who's been on greatly designed websites, just an observation.
Student Housing- Atelier Villemard (2019)
Saturday 3: Today I finished the served and servant post, and published it. I was very happy with the research and the post, when writing these kind of post I often get a lot of ideas on how I can apply what I'm writing about, which is always a good feeling because it feels like progress, small progress thats only in the head, but progress nonetheless. This post most likely concluded the research that will be done on Louis Kahn for this project, I spent a lot of time researching a bit of everything on him. Outside of a school project, that is due at a certain time, that would be perfectly fine, but that's not what happen, so maybe a bit of time was wasted, but I do not regret it one bit. Then I did a bit more research on pure geometry, and didn't find anything useful apart from a book (Pure Hardcore Icons) that I ordered, I just hope It won't be beyond me.
Sunday 4: Today on Easter Sunday was a day of revelation. I am not religious. Still today I figured why I've not been great in the whole design department. Upon receiving part 2 of the brief I have been scratching my head, trying to figure out how to make the building I want appealing, beautiful, and because I haven't been able to figure that out I have barely drawn any design ideas, and the ones I have drawn have been very basic. I'm putting my approach and thus reluctance to draw ideas, down to two things. One my preferences in architecture, I like the visually stunning buildings, ones that could maybe even just be sculptures. Two I'm not drawing from anything, in the past projects I have had objects, or certain places to grow the project from, just a more specific brief really. So that has just culminated in wasted days for design development. So after this revelation I got really excited and starting writing in huge on paper things like "building a system over a sculpture" and "architecture serves a higher purpose than that of design", kinda felt like Clive Wearing. I'll make a more detailed blog post about that because, it's not a change in idea, but approach which is just as significant. I also finished the pure geometry post, but didn't post it because I was looking for a picture I couldn't find. Also last thing that happened today was the discovery of architect Carlo Scarpa, fantastic buildings that undoubtedly fall into the types of buildings I like.
Brion Verga Cemetery- Carlo Scarpa (1978)
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