Final Proposal
As it is an online submission, I have created an animated short film to bring my drawings to life. This animation helps show what the society is about and what it does with close ups of the milling flour in action. The animation has been produced using Photoshop and Premiere Pro. After I graduate, I…
Animation Inspiration
To make my project and design proposal come to life I am working on producing a short animation to accompany my final portfolio and project work. As my proposal is a conquest society that mills its own flour, bakes its own bread and sells it at the in house market as well as the society’s…
Material Development in Design
To develop my design further I have gone back to my material palette and developed it to adapt to my developing design. I have tried to introduce new and more contemporary materials to update conquest house and to show a more contemporary spin on the designs. This developed material palette shows a range of new…
Process of a flour mill: From Grain to Flour
The bubble diagram above is to assist with my design developments as the design begins to progress. Instead of just having the making bread process I am including the grain, with the society buying grains in bulk from a local farmer and milling their own flour. By buying the grain there are multiple benefits such…
Design Development Kitchen Furniture
This is the start of my making bread furniture and will be the table for measuring and mixing the ingredients as well as kneading the dough. The design has transformed from my original spatial verb, photographed in the top left. From this photo and model, I has started to work into it creating different layers…
Design Precedents
McCullough Mulvin Architects, Medieval Mile Museum restoration I particularly like the marrying of the old and new within this project and is something that I would like to capture within my own design proposal- bringing conquest house into the 21st century whilst maintaining the old aesthetic of the property. ( https://www.dezeen.com/2019/02/10/st-marys-medieval-mile-museum-mccullough-mulvin-architects/ ) Elmgreen & Dragset’s…
Narrative Perspectives
To get a better understanding of what I will be designing, I have produced quick perspectives to start to understand what I will be designing and what the space will feel and look like. Producing perspectives during the design development phase has enabled me to put myself in the narrative, making the project more personal…
Spatial Verb Model Making
The images above are photographs of my spatial verb models. I have used clay which I feel is a very simple and hands on way of making quick conceptual models and an organically, fluid way of modelling. The spatial verbs consisted of a variety of words including: expand, extrude, offset, intersect, carve, curve, bend, lift,…
Programming Diagrams
This blog shows a series of diagrams to help me refine and understand my design phase of the project. The hybrid diagrams shows zoomed in actions on the existing floor plan which allows me to design for the appropriate programs. Hybrid I shows the basement plan and programs happening within the space. Hybrid II shows…
Site Surveying Conquest House
Due to Covid-19 and being in a lockdown for the majority of the year, I was unable to get access into my chosen building. We got to choose any building that was vacant and used to be a commercial property. With a lot of students living in different countries it has been interesting to see…
Final project Narrative and Manifesto
To make my narrative more coherent and to fully understand what is happening within the context of my narrative, I have decided to put myself in my narrative as a character. I will be a student who is volunteering to help with the society and become one of the members so I can understand and…
Manifesto Tapestry
For my manifesto artwork, I wanted to go down more of a traditional route of artwork to reflect a pre-covid world where coming together and enjoying food and company was more or a normal thing to do. As I am doing a society including robes and rooted in the historical town of Canterbury, I wanted…
Project Manifesto and Narrative Development
This blog is more focused on the refinement of my project narrative and tasks which are more closely related to the development of my own narrative and manifesto. This narrative collage was created from the response of asking and answering questions to building a narrative. The types of questions for example were: Who are you…
Manifesto/Narrative Tasks
This blogs shows the tasks and process I had to undergo to develop my own project narrative and manifesto. The process began by relooking at the research questions from the group research phase of the project and changing them to fit a new narrative. Some elements I have kept the same such as the community…
Research Diagrams
These sequence diagrams take inspiration from Sarah Wigglesworth Table diagrams and show the more direct impact of human interaction and experience that take place when baking and consuming bread. This diagram shows the process around the baking of the bread taking into account the human experience, the time taken and the actions that are involved…
Design Precedents
My design precedents will be the styles that inspire my own drawings and diagrams throughout the project. In using design precedents I can gain more of a understanding of communicating through technical drawings, renders and diagrams. I have chosen Benjamin Fern’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences as my precedent as I particularly like the high contrast…
Final Atmosphere Pack
The final atmosphere pack contains the following: – Dry Ingredients bag (containing 500g strong white flour, 7g quick-action yeast, 2 tsp Salt. – Extra Ingredients (150g strong white flour for dusting) – Pumpkin Seed Bag (150g) – Instruction Booklet Stop Motion Video of Atmosphere Pack
Baking Bread – Part One
Our project focuses on the performance aspect of baking the bread. These series of images show a test run of myself baking bread in its different stages. I am following a very simple recipe: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-white-bread
Group Project Precedents
These projects I found particularly interesting and will help to form our own project centred around bread. They have been chosen with the project brief in mind as well as projects that are centred around a local community. The People’s Brick Company – Something & Son This community project invited local people to come and…
Hospitality: New Project Introduction (Final year BA Project)
The new project brief is inspired by lockdown and how every household had to adapt to the changes that brought with the Covid-19 virus. The new brief questions what is the future of hospitality? Hospitality and eating has always been seen as a social activity of human interaction, but how can hospitality be during lockdown…
Margate Project Final Evaluation
This Margate Project has been my favourite project so far whilst studying at university. It is a project I will not forget, spending two months of the project in lockdown amid the horror that has been the Corona-Virus. The Margate project has been one I have felt really captured my interest. Doing the Site Surveys…
Final Design Perspectives
These perspective show what it is like to be in the proposed skate hub space. I have maintained consistency throughout my proposal drawings by using Benjamin Fern’s atmospheric style whilst also highlighting areas of natural light and shadow with the use of contrast. As my final drawings were designed around my conceptual models, I have…
Spatial/ Environmental Notations
These series of spatial notations represent what it is like to be in the space creating a very real scenario of how the space could be used and function. My point of reference for these series of Diagrams is Sarah Wigglesworth Table Manners showing a table, dinner party scenario and how human interactions change and…
Hybrid Diagrams
These series of Hybrid drawings shows different types of actions and movements to expect in the space including skateboarding moves, mentoring and members of the skate community interacting. This hybrid drawing focuses on two different skate zones in the space in the space and how they can be used. I have shown movement through the…
Material Collage
My material collage highlights key textures for my final skate hub design whilst still in keeping with Benjamin Fern’s architectural drawing style. The textures are a mixture of photographs from the original Sunshine Cafe, taken on the first and second site visits, as well as up close textures from my clay conceptual models. By combining…
Beach Rat Skate Hub Final Designs
Completed in the style of my precedent, Benjamin Fern, this is the final floor plan for the Beach Rat Skate Hub. It is quite simple as I tried not to over complicate the space as it is a relatively small space to work with. To the left of the space is the skate zones which…
Beach Rat Animation
To go with my proposal, almost like an advertisement, I created a fun animation using Photoshop and Timeline and then adding music I edited on Adobe Audition to go with the animation. This was my first animation and it was fun to do, something I enjoyed and would like to do more of in the…
Formative Review: Proposal to Thanet District Council
Due to the Corona-Virus we were unable to present our pitch to the council as we were meant to. This presentation has been recorded and you can find it in the link below. I am proposing a skate hub community centre for the Margate and Thanet district in the old and vacant Sunshine Cafe of…
Beach Rat
Beach Rat is my chosen identity and brand name for my skate hub meaning, a skater who spends a lot of time skating at/by the beach. I wanted to make the brand and skate hub fun and different by having a rat as the mascot and Beach Rat would be the identity of the skate…
Skate Research
My Skate hub will be a place where the community can come and learn to skate there will also be a community cafe where anyone can come and watch skating as well as enjoying the energy of the space. The skate hub will also have its own brand which will be a project for the…
Spatial Verbs
Spatial verbs that I used to inspire and help inform my conceptual models: Nest Carve Rotate Merge Twist Overlap Inflate Extrude Expand Split I will take into consideration these spatial verbs when designing my final proposal for the Sunshine Cafe space.
Conceptual Models
These conceptual models were made with a skate park in mind from clay and then painted in a light grey to indicate smooth concrete like a skate park. These shapes were very experimental and I was very free when designing and moulding the shapes. I did not use any tools just my hands to model…
Skate Park Research
London, Southbank Centre Skate Park Known as a popular hot spot for tourists, Southbank Centre Skate Park has been an original skate site since 1970 and is the worlds longest continually used skate spot. It is an original space for free creative interpretation where anyone can feel a sense of belonging. It is now a…
‘Little Oasis Crazy Skate Park’
In 2013, local Skater’s of Margate decided to build their own skate park on the seafront as they had nowhere to skate. This quickly became a community project Margate had suddenly become united in the project of building a place for the skaters. The local community came together to put forward materials and paid for…
Existing and Proposed Scenario Diagrams
The purpose of this task was to compare the existing scenario of Maragte’s community in a diagram with a comparing proposed scenario of what it could be with our design and proposal in place. Our point of reference, as shown above, are Peter Darby’s, The Clandestine Exchange, 2015, which research and dealt with The French…
Researching The Margate Community
There were a lot of factors and information to gather when designing a council for the people of Thanet District. Margate, undoubtedly is very up and coming what with the Turner Contemporary and a new trendy upcoming vibe but there is also a very big divide between his and the remaining residents who live in…
Environmental, Infrastructural and Ephemeral Posters
Environmental Poster The Environmental Poster puts real context around the site making us look into more in depth research and how our site could be effected throughout the year by different seasons and weather. My poster, inspired by my precedent Perry Kulper highlights what I thought were key factors of Margate and would effect or…
Site Visit II – 29.01.20
On the second site visit I was more focused on what information I needed to get that was missing or needed more accuracy as well as photographs and data from Dreamland and the surrounding area. While we were there were accompanied by Tamara, who is part of Dreamland Heritage Trust, who showed us around other…
Architectural Drawing Development
My work has developed completely this year and as I get more of an understanding and a grasp of the software and Interior Architecture and design as I whole my drawings and approach are becoming more confident. I still have a long way to come but I am enjoying the learning processes and the challenges…
Precedents: Benjamin Fern and Perry Kulper
I have chosen Benjamin Fern’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences as my precedent to do my architectural drawings in his style. I have chosen this style as they stood out to me. I particularly like the high contrast black and white as well as the detailed texture and materiality that he has added in a subtle way…
Site Surveying Part I – 09.01.20
The first site visit to Dreamland was my first time visiting Margate so I was unsure what to expect. Expectations had exceeded reality and it was sad to see what had clearly been once and thriving and loved place had now become a run down and almost abandoned seaside town. This could have been that…
Dreamland Archive Gallery
To introduce us to Dreamland and the new project, we had Tamara who works for the Dreamland Heritage Trust come and introduce us to Dreamland. It was interesting hearing the story and the timeline of the Park. We also saw the Dreamland Archive which included photos of Dreamland throughout the years. Here are key images…
History of Dreamland
From 1870 George Sanger was the owner of the Hall By The Sea and the land behind this was his pleasure garden which contained a menagerie of animals he kept for show. Shortly after this the first amusement rides were introduced. to Margate. In 1911 George Sanger died leaving the uncertainty of the Pleasure Park…
Margate Dreamland
Margate, in Kent is a town on England’s southeast coast. Known for its sandy beach, it is a town which thrives and survives on Tourism. Margate today is now also known for the Turner Contemporary Gallery which opened in 2011, Dreamland Amusement Park and other treasures such as The Shell Grotto. However, like the majority…
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