Istanbul

Spent the afternoon planning the trip to Istanbul. Me and another student are traveling together and fly out on the 8th for a week. Getting pretty excited about it!

It's going to be a great experience as the city is such a cultural and historical gem. I'm really excited to see the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque in particular.

Group Work.

The Group project is going really well, we had a tutorial today and decided to add a second part on to the film that I've been working on.

The plan is to respond the the Huzun film of Istanbul with a film of Leeds representing how we feel the city is. I think it's a great idea and it will give me the chance to film my own footage and learn that side of the video editing process too.

In terms of the Slide viewer we've had the 2nd year students collating information on Istnabul and Cinema and we plan to make it over the next couple of days.

This is a quick sketch of how we want it to look....

Video editing.

I've got hold of a program called Final Cut Pro X and have been slowly learning how to edit videos.

The main problem has been getting hold of suitable footage of Istanbul.

As you can see it's a pretty complicated program to get to grips with!

 Heres acouple of screen grabs from the film as it is, I've put a filter on all the footage I've found so that it all looks similar. I'm currently writing a monologue to go over the top of the film but more on that later....

Reading.......

Just thought I'd post on what I've been reading,


The New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherly
and Ground Control by Anna Minton

Both books are for my Critical study which I've decided will be on Architecture during the Labour governments time in power.

I'm personally quite interested in polotics so I think it's a good choice of topics, I just need to carry on reading and start to form an question and argument.

Istanbul Group

Had our first group meeting with the tutors today.

We've been set a desk top study project to complete and present before we go on the trip to Istanbul, I'm in a group with another 3rd year and two 2nd year students looking at Modernity and Cinema in Istanbul and Huzun, which is a particular emotion that its said the city expresses.

After discussing it together we've decided to make a couple of different pieces as a response. We wanted to stay away from the standard powerpoint presentation and have decided to make a film that will respond to Huzun and a slide viewer and map responding to cinema.

In terms of splitting up the work I volunteered to make the film as it's something I've never done before and a skill I'd really like to learn!

Back to Work

Just Enrolled back on the course, I'm really excited about 3rd year. I think having to resit my design modules for 2nd year has really helped me to develop my skills as a designer and architect.

I'm in a Tutor group led by Sarah Mills and Dennis Burr, our project will be set in Istanbul this semester which I'm really excited about!

My main aims for the year are:
To push my self creatively in my design work, not to get stuck and set on a single idea.
To continue to improve my computer skills both in 2D photoshop and 3D modelling.
And to try and think about the technological side of my designing more, as this is something that I have not properly done for a year and will have to really keep on top of it.

Final Model

These are acouple of images of my final laser cut model for Cambridge. I'd never used the laser cutter to do a model before this, I was really happy with how it turned out, next time I use it i think I will need to plan the pieces of the model better as this one became quite intricate and fiddly.

Redone Section - Holbeck

This is a section that I redid for Holbeck, it's the first time I've attempted to draw a perspective section.

I felt that this was one of the strongest pieces of work I've done all year, I think it's the best image in my portfolio.

I'm really pleased with how it came out and feel as though its a skill I can really develop next year.

Development models

These are some development models I created moving on from my intuative response, looking at how I could create a facade that world replicate and allow the natural elements to filter through the building.

I was really happy with these models and enjoyed using models in the design process.

Intuative Response.

This was my final intuitive response, looking at how the nature developed over the site as the seasons changed.

I really enjoyed doing a piece that was completely abstract to anything I've done before, it really helped to get my creative side flowing and get me excited to get stuck into the project.