Design Workshop.

Today we had a design workshop, we pinned up long rolls over paper onto the boards and had to respond to questions set by our tutors.

It didn't go very well for me because I'm still struggling with the concepts of my design, it did however give me a bit of a wake up call in that I need to do better at time management and planning in terms of getting my design work done.

101 things.....

I bought this book today, after flicking through it quickly it seems to be really helpful in reminding you to do the basics when your caught up in the designing process.

The Car park.

After talking to my tutor today I felt it was important to better understand the carpark underneath the site, I looked at it in both plan and section to help get my head round the structure.

I felt that this was a really worthwhile task, understanding the structure of the car park has really helped me think more deeply about my design, I'm now designing with a structural grid which I think will really help.

Creative response progress

This is my final creative response to the the site, looking at people movement over the site.

Following comments from my tutor Dennis I used fishing wire as the vertical elements rather than string so that it becomes almost invisible allowing the mapping to become the dominant element.

Overall I was very pleased with this piece of work, it helped me to visually understand the movement over the site better and allowed me to suggest a location for my building.

Istanbul Projects update

Following on from the film making I did before going to Istanbul I continued to work on it.

I produced two films both leading through the site mapping the route down at both day and night.

The first video was a combination of 4 different camera shots on the same screen, the helped to develop my editing skills further, putting the footage together and getting the timings right on it. However because it was at least a 30 minute walk down through all the sites it had to be sped up and the finished video felt quite shakey, something I wasn't very happy with.

The second video was done at night, using a combination of still long exposure photographs with light trails moving through them leading down the site. I was very pleased how this came out, it took 4 of us over 5 hours to get all the photograph taken and was a really satisfying piece of work when finished.

I've really enjoyed learning how to edit and create films over the past couple of months, I feel as though its a good skill to have gained and am really happy that the tutors pushed us in this direction.

Critical Study Progress....

We've been tasked to write 1000 words for our critical study and hand them in to out tutor on 24/10/11 I've been having quite abit of trouble writing mine as I'm still reading lots of different articles and journals etc. and still haven't properly settled on what I want the question to be.

I'm planning to really focus on it this weekend and get things straight in my mind.

Creative Response.

We've been set the task of doing a 'creative response' to our time in Istanbul. I'm currently looking a creating some sort of mapping model tracking the movement of people over my site.

I've been looking at string models for inspiration.

Brief.

So we got our design brief today, there were several options one of which being a cinema.

I felt this brief would suit me due to the work I've been doing making films and also the fact that I work in a cinema.

I also think it suits the site that I've chosen, it's a public square ontop of a multi-storey car park in a residential area called Changir, its pretty much in the centre between two of Istanbul's main attractions. Takism Square and the Modern.

This is a panoramic of the site.

Istanbul

Just got back from Istanbul, had a fantastic time, the place was absolutely fascinating.

The definition between Western and Eastern influence becomes really blurred at times, and at others is very clear to see.

The importance of religion in their everyday lives is incredible to see, the contrast to our country is very stark.

I'm going to quickly upload a few photos and I'll do a couple of posts about the projects and specific visits that we did later.

Istanbul!

Off to visit Istanbul tomorrow, I'll post afew photos and thoughts when I get back!