Interdisciplinary design project.

This week we've undertaken the interdisciplinary design project, looking at redeveloping the Tetley's brewery site on the south edge of Leeds city centre.

This is the project that we came up with.

I felt that the 3 days were quite an interesting learning experience, it was good to see what other courses did and how they worked however I did feel it was flawed.

There were too many architects in our group meaning that people were arguing with each other to try and get their own way in the design process, mean while the project managers, who were suposed to be in charge of us failed to have any real valid input in the design.

Overall I found the week useful but did finish up wanting abit more from the experience.

Tech hand in.

Handed our tech project in, the total slide count came to over 500. I felt that it was probably about as good as it could be.

We had some problems with our group, several members decided they didn't want to work with all of us and said they were going to continue alone only to form a separate group away from the rest of us.

I felt that that was a pretty underhanded thing to do and it definitely pushed us back abit, we just got on with it and did the best that we could so hopefully it turns out ok.

Personally I was happy with my contribution I was building up the details and looking at the programme of accommodation and was really happy with the way it turned out, there were members of our group who didn't pull their weight though which was disappointing.

Tutorial - Cube

After having a tutorial I decided to look into designing a square design that would fit around the existing grid laid down by the car park. I made a steel model to reflect this.

I first made a jig inorder to ensure that all the pieces of the frame were square, I then went on to build the model up step by step.

I really enjoyed using steel as a modelling material and felt that by physically welding the frame together I had a better understanding of how the structure works.

This is one of the most enjoyable pieces of work I've done this semester and am happy as it was well received by both my peers and my tutors.

Light Drawing.

As I've been using LED's in my earlier work I wanted to look at light drawing and have tried to do some light drawing in section.

I felt it was quite a successful exercise and it helped me to better understand the effect that small hand movements can effect a drawing or image.