Monday 5: No work placement today because I'm on easter break, so I'm working on my project today. First thing for today was finishing the weekly journal for the prior week, just writing up the last two days I had not typed up. Did that and published it. I also wrote my notes and research for the pure geometry post and discussed its significance to my project. It was good to get that done, because it feels like I'm getting a good amount of more specific research which is something I needed to do for this project. I also created two mood-boards today one on housing projects and the other on student accommodation projects. I chose to do this one because I hadn't done mood-boards yet and it was one of the criteria I did not meet on the brief and two because I wanted to see a range of work, and how people tackle it. I chose to put both projects that I thought were successful and others that served evidence for what I do not want to do. Whilst I was researching for housing project I came across a series of photograph from Laurent Kronental, which were just amazing, and funnily enough my brother had mentioned to me this project but I hadn't looked at it, and lost it so I was really happy to find it again.
"Souvenir d'un Future"/ "Memory of a Future"- Laurent Kronental
Tuesday 6: Today I made the blog post on Archigram, why I chose to research them, what I learnt from them, how they will inform my project etc. The research on Archigram was really fun and questioned one of the first points I made in this project; and that was that for something to be innovative it needs to influence others and thus needs to be made because otherwise how can it really be innovative. However Archigram were innovative I think, and their innovation did influence others work, most notably the George Pompidou Centre by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. So that just puts a question again on what really is innovative and wether it needs to be made. Looking at my project, I obviously won't be making a building, It will reach the model stage at most, so can it be innovative? The other thing I did today was the blog post on my change in approach, and how I didn't focus on aesthetics solely anymore. It was a really good post to make, I felt happy with it, but more importantly I felt happy about recognising my errors and being able to move on and make a better project. Today whilst I was writing and researching Archigram I came across a really cool animation, that was inspired by Archigram.
Walking City- Universal Everything
Wednesday 7: Today I did a bit more research on student accommodation, what makes a good one, the types of things students should expect etc. After I made a mind map, to outline what I was thinking, and what I believe was needed in good student accommodation. Then I did a bit of design development, got a couple of rough ideas here and there. But I called it a day after that. I have quite a few designs at this point all quite rough ideas, but I will compile all of them and make a blog post to explain my thinking behind the designs and which one I would like to develop further.
Thursday 8: One of the things I put done on my mind map was sliding doors. You win a lot of space with a sliding door, compared to a hinged one because you don't have to clear the space that a hinge door uses when it is open. You cannot put something in front of a hinged door otherwise it'll block it, that's not the case with a sliding door which is why I think it's better in my scenario. So I came up with an idea for a sliding door that would also incorporate storage, another aspect I noted down on my mind map. Anyway I drew it out, and then went to the trusted legos and built a model of it. So I'll make a blog post about that too but here's a sneak peak of it.
Friday 9: Published the mind map today, and discussed why the things I put down were important to me, I also discussed a sketch for the idea I had at the beginning of the project and why it was not the right idea, and how I moved on from that. I photographed the lego model and demolished it. Then I worked on another design idea, and I focused on the plan for it, how the rooms would be placed so that the communal spaces were at reach for each person on the floor. Lastly I finalised my questionnaire, it's now ready and I have sent it to a couple of people. I was also quite sad to find that the Welbeck car park had been demolished a few years ago, I would've liked to seen it in person.
Welbeck Car Park- Michael Blampied and Partners (1970-2019)
Saturday 10: Today I carried out a little case study into specifically modular projects, because none of the architects I had chosen at the start had modular projects so it was important that I learn from projects similar to mine. I chose not to research the architect's that made these projects and other projects they had, but just their modular project. I did not want to loose time, and get distracted with the specific of architect's story and design philosophy, all I cared about was the hows, and why for that particular project. I think that was a wise decision otherwise I would've most likely gotten sidetracked as usual. But no, today was efficient and I was able to make the blog post the day of the research, which I was also glad about because the main focus right now is the design development so this case study needed to be brief and to the point.
Sunday 11: Not much was done today regarding the project, I was playing basketball today. I did however start on the weekly journal and got a good half of it done, but I'll finish that off first thing in the morning tomorrow.
Les Espaces d'Abraxas- Ricardo Bofill (1982)
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