Week 2-3 Detail

First week Consisted of drawings, building up of ideas, and quick model making to prepare for the final detail of  building joint of 1:1. Just my luck a gust of sickness spread across me for pretty much the entire week, and it was a very slow start, and it was really only saturday where I had finally produced a final idea to work with, sunday commenced with the creation of a 1:5 model of my preposed idea. 


We started off by a reading of patch dynamics, at first some what complicated to me, talking it over with my peers soon clarified most of it...the theory of modeling the changing environment in an almost patchy display, where the environment is forever changing, and ways of capturing this change, is the basic overview of this reading(two essays). 


Wednesday was followed up with some augmented drawings, holding up a drawn bed on a piece of paper and taking a photo of it...then explaining why we would want to 'wake up' in such a place, at first i was hesitant of this idea of waking up, say in a park, but I found a nice little corner shop, where i begin taking photos. A very reflective windowed room caught my attention, looking into a room but in turn looking out to the city. This lead to a very simplistic drawing of a room with one of the framed windows of the room, with a window looking out to the city,

Still finding it hard to come up with an idea behind this, my head just not been in that frame of mind for the week, i had a very interesting and suitable suggestion from one of my tutors-Mr Dermott, to him the idea of the piece of paper been able to be moved around, fitting into each of the three framed window slots gave me the idea of change, movement (which was a big part of my first week sections) and been able to see out to the surrounding people, but them having no idea what was even in the building, for all I know there could have been someone starring at me the whole time as I took the photos pacing back and fourth along the pavement/walkway, somewhat embarrassing?

Ideas sprang into mind on saturday, when I finally sat down properly, and really thought about my idea. But I finally figured out, where and why I would want to wake up in such an odd place. Firstly, I live in the country side, away from the 'big city', i choose an area close to the busiest streets I studied in the first week, I like having some solitude, but also been around people makes a nice CHANGE, and makes me feel more at ease. 

So I thought, why not change the area i sleep and wake up in to suit what kind of mood i'm in, or want to be in for the day, for example, solitude, I would move this room to a park, or concealed/closed off part of the city. Feeling energetic, motivated for an intense hard working day, park it out side a gym. The possibilities are endless and so are the ideas, soon writing pages and pages, until I confined it to a page with a simple sketch.

'Whatever reflects from the surroundings, onto me as I awake, sets the course of my mental, and somewhat physical side for the time I remain there, and till I sleep again, to awake

in a different space, to change the course of the next day'

This is a simple way of describing my ideas, the reflection coming from the actual material, (glass) and the city reflecting its image onto me. I also liked the idea of having a mysterious room, made of glass, near completely reflective-apart from the supporting metal framing-where i can see out onto the world, and they (the outsiders) can only be puzzled as to what is in this glass room, and what it is doing there. I decided to try and disguise it as a very basic 'coffee on the go' trailer type room. adding the bizarreness of it all. 

I designed the mobile coffee shop-not the one above, but showing what I was meaning-this one was near square, with a slopping roof, made almost entirely of reflective glass, with metal frames around all joints and edges. I certainly find it bizarre seeing what appears to be a coffee on the go cart, but reflective glass, and well no coffee.

 I made a very simple 1:5 model of my detail of 3 joints, two walls and the sloping roof, adding some environments on the external sides of the card to show the reflective idea I was going for. Adding white foam board as the metal joints.

 Above shows the per-spec material I bought at modern plastics, I asked for a 4mm, but got a 3mm, great.

This joint slips onto the angled wall piece, the top flat is for the roof to be stuck down on.

Above shows the various kinds of metal offered to me to use free of charge for my joints, which will then be soldered together and spray painted a soft colour. The workshop tutors were most helpful, but it tended to get busy, and soon I was stuck in the middle waiting for some help...even when I was first there to ask for help, this was at the Elam workshop, as the architecture one doesn't open till wednesday, which i will have to complete all the metal bending, folding and soldering in the morning, which I will have to paint, then buy some reflective material and add any finishing touches to it.