Pulling together the interim presentation

It was my job to pull together everyone's drawings for the interim presentation. Originally we were thinking of doing a powerpoint before Mariana suggested a cool program she had seen used once called Prezi. Just in case there were any issues with playing the Prezi presentation I made I also made a powerpoint presentation so that we would still be able to present even if we had technical issues. For the presentation Joel worked more on our task 1 and created an animation to be inserted into the presentation. At first I found I could not get this animation to work in the Prezi presentation but after googling my problem I discovered I had to convert the file and it was successful. This is the powerpoint:

This is the Prezi presentation: 

Task 4: 'an analogue series'

For this final activity we were required to create a physical model of our space in which we furthered our design. Joel and Mariana made this model as I did everyone's section for task 2 and was going to attempt to pull our drawings together for the presentation. These are some photos of our model coming together. 

Reading 5: The Co-Operative Evolution of Cities and Buildings

This reading discusses John Frazers view on co-operative buildings. These buildings were helped to be generated by the computer. This reading ties in directly with the lecture, where John Frazer discusses the same concepts with us. He explains the breakthroughs he made when it comes to electronically producing buildings and how we have progressed and need to realise all the possibilities which have been made available to us with the advance of technology over the past 40 or so years. I find his concepts of buildings that change and adapt quite interesting. Especially what he refers to as the Generator project (pg.131). I think its interesting how the buildings get bored if they are not moved around enough and hence tell the crane driver to move them, this ensures that when people get to lazy or are too scared to change the set out, it changes anyway. Thus the space is constantly changing and this promotes the people to want to change it to suit their own individual needs. This was the basic idea of our folie, that it could be moved by the user to suit their constantly changing needs.

Frazer, J., The Co-operative Evolution of Buildings and Cities. In N. A. Streitz, S. Konomi, &H.-J. Burkhardt, eds. Cooperative Buildings: Integrating Information, Organization, and Architecture. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp130-141.

Task 03: 'a room for the transformative body'

We were asked to further our chosen folie, which was my last groups folie in order to create a space which accommodates our altered human form. We were then asked to show the person using the space so as to get a feeling of the space as it is being used. To make it easier we divided it all up and did a drawing each. Not only did we show the movement of our added opening, but we also showed the segments interacting with each other and getting closer to one another. 

Task 02: 'the cross sections'

I did all the sections for the group as we thought there would be more uniformity if one person did them all. 

To create the sections, I used contour maps so I could know the shape of the land, as well as some aerial photographs to help me with drawing the scenery. We used Joel's site analysis from his last project as we found it looked at connections and movement throughout the site.

Task 01: 'Bodily States'

For this exercise we had to experiment with the human body and use either binding or attachments in order to capture a series of images in order to create operational speculative plans. We discussed a number of ideas such as attaching the knee to the chin as well as attaching looped strings between motion areas sucha s legs/arms. The two pictures below are some examples of attachments which we were considering.

The drawing below is an example we used which one of our group members completed during another subject he was doing.

After going over our ideas we eventually came up with the concept of a cocoon that the person 'rests' in. Below are the pictures that we took for this concept:

With these images we used trace paper and pencils to create our operative speculative drawings which are shown below: