week10 summary

-took photos of all my recent models
-layout for practice crit
-wrote 'stories' for the moments
-presented for the first time
-re-defined my 2 strategies
-concept drawings
-took notes from book

site model

week 9 summary

-identified 'moments' to develop in my housing series
-finished outing concrete and plaster on site model (we'll see how it turns out tomorrow)
-modelled 2 moments 1:50
-developed design
-casted negative spaces around models of houses
-re-modelled houses using multiple layers of cards
-decided on 'story/experience' approach
-continued reading and taking notes
-started layout for crit
-reviewed comments from the overseer of the theses at Auckland uni
-watched the German film  'Wings of Desire', 1987, directed by Wim Wenders (noted the dramatic use of ruins in one particular scene)


I have my first practice presentation on Wednesday, and then my mid-semester crit the week after that. The next two weeks are going to be fun... 

moment 1

Now that I have a design it is my aim to model 5 'moments' of it in the next week, before our practice crit. 


This is the first moment I've developed. It highlights the building footprint of the old building on the site, has a North Western deck, almost where Amanda used to sit out on the roof to enjoy the sun, and a window laid in the floor, the same measurements of the one that used to exist on the adjacent facade until it was replaced by a door. It frames a view of the ground, the ground where the building used to be.  

T.S. Eliot "East Coker," from *The Four Quartets*

In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place
Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.
Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires,
Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth
Which is already flesh, fur, and faeces,
Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.
Houses live and die: there is a time for building
And a time for living and for generation
And a time for the wind to break the loosened pane
And to shake the wainscot where the field mouse trots
And to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto.

week 8 summary

this week I:
-made my site model formwork, poured first two layers
-more notes and reading
-drawings of facade x6
-computer models of drawings x6
-further development of one option (floor diagrams, physical model, I am designing 'moments' for both street walker and individuals who live in he houses)
-decided on 2 apartments and a house for the section
-site maps of x3 contexts
-started layout for crit
-ground research
-re-clarification of ideas
-stitched photographs together of sites

composition iterations