Friday, 24 May 2013

First Crit for Portland Place



This image shows visual noise being removed. Mainly conceptual. 


My first plan for the site - feedback was mainly questions - why is the rain garden the shape it is? Why is it the same width throughout? Etc etc. Also cafe area looks like an afterthought, which I completely agree with. 






Sections - I tried mixing hand drawn with photoshop - I'm not sure how I feel about the outcome. As the area shown of the site is actually quite small I need to make sure they are big images when I final print them. 



Birds eye view - this was a complete accident, i just transformed the buildings and the plan using the perspective tool in photoshop when playing around and came out with this - needs more people and the steps need a more 3D feel to them. Also Ginko are IRREGULAR!

Seq sketch - Again Ginko need to be more irregular - but more importantly more thought needs to go into the paving - as it makes up so  much of the scheme it must be more detailed and interesting. I don't really like this image - feels a bit clunky and rushed to me. 

Sunday, 12 May 2013

Site Design II - Portland Place

We were tasked to choose a site along the line - I went with Portland Place as I wanted to do something with the traffic - ie get rid of it. Started with site surveys and some quick sketch models:



Context Plan



Site Survey


Sketch Model with car crash detail - the traffic really got to me

Michael Van Gessel - Vught Prison Camp



Really interesting guy - especially liked his obsession with removing 'visual noise'

Site Design II, The Line - Linear Experiences Map



Shouldn't have put the map on it, just a line showing the journey.

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Greenhithe Project 1 - Section


This is from last term - I printed off and collaged some close ups of CORTEN to get the look. I think it worked?