Atlas of Colour

Navagation of the Atlas was a key componant in our project. My chosen navagation was emotion - and the colours that represent them. Each exercise has a different coloured film strip (which is an element that connects with the film tunnel) that corrolates with the emotion word on the contents page. Navagation of any work is an important factor in taking the observer on a journey of understanding the message you are portraying.

The display layout and the process that led to it was a major element in the Atlas. This method of playing around with text and images on a page so that they commuicate a clear, succinct and connecting theme through visual language will be very helpful in future when expressing complexity of ideas or vision to a client.

I have learned through precedents such as Luis Barragan that colour plays a huge part in the world of architecture, that you can have just a simple form but when added with colour it can express a whole new phenomenon.

Barragan was a major influence in how i displayed my atlas. From connecting black and white images with colour to the display method of one big image with two or three underneath that enhance the message being portrayed.

Storyboard of Film Tunnel









My inspiration for my film tunnel was Sin City. Through doing this exercise i have learnt how to effectively achieve an illusion of spatiality that communicates a story and concept through 3D representation.


Film Tunnel

Overall, this workshop has reinforced and taught me many skills that will be useful tools of communication in the future. These incude, an exploration and understanding of color theory and its impact on architecture. 3D crafting skills and how this method effictively communicates a vision or idea. Sketching, painting and drawing of images and how to manipulate these in programs such as Indesign and Photoshop so as to achieve an interesting and creative piece of work.

Material Modelling

This workshop encouraged open minded experimintation. To let loose our creative self. We had to develop and rebuild our house. I live in a terrace house on a street where each one is the same. Therefore my aim was to achieve a structure that will stand out as well as rise above to get the views of the city through elevation.

I began to research and look for interesting ways to approch this. One idea that really stood out was the concept of a twisting building. I looked Eisenmann's buildings, and thought about how to effectvely achieve this idea through modelling.

I experimented with many different types of material and different stratagies to obtain my desired form of structure. I played around with card, foam board and box board, cutting them and building them up to resemble a splayed deck of cards. I experimented with balsa wood and clay.

To achieve the sense of elevation above the other terrace houses, i built simple models to place next to the twisting building to communicate that idea of scale.

These photos show how i decided to create my model. I first built a framework of balsa, wrapped wire around it to keep its shape, placed plaster on to for reinforcement and then coated it with paint.
The collage below shows the buildings internal layout in a 2D representaion.


This workshop allowed my to explore the creative side of developing an idea without all the restrictions, which opened my mind to new and wacky possibilities. I learnt how important modelling is in communicating a vision, and that there are many ways and materials to achieve this. Finally, that collage is a very effective way to show the observer your idea of layout, atmosphere etc. and is a tool i will definatly use in future projects.

Architecture in Motion

The first lesson of Architecture in Motion we were shown several pictures of the inside of a building. As this was the only time we were to see them in the coming 4 weeks we had to sketch as much as we could remember.

The drawing above is an example of an exersise in class where we had to copy one of the picture without looking down at the paper in 20 seconds. This was an interesting exercise as it really enabled me to let loose and create something quite abstract.

For my project i decided to go a different route to others in that my film would not to the creating abd building of the journey through the house but one of destruction and decay.

This was a semi big thing for me as i hate destroying things, especially panels that took hours to do. However, this just taught me not to be so precious about an artwork, but to be careful with what you do as you may just get one chance to do it right.

I started from the outside and in each panel zoomed back

out of the window to take in the internal space of destruction. As opposed to the growth of the natural environment outside.

The materials that i used for my panels included, card, paint, paper, balsa, pen and oil pastels.

A very important factor was the journey of being taken through the building. As we were only given several pictures of the inside space, it was up to our creative thought to decipher the rest of the walls, floors, windows, stairs etc. allowing us to expand our imagination and spatial awareness.

As you may have noticed in every panel there is a window looking through to the natual landscape beyond. This acts as a juxtoposition to the destruction inside.

When I first saw the photos of the building I knew that I wanted to portray the diaphanous mood of the space, expressed in the motion picture by using 3D relief models to cast shadows and depth and to also highlight the filigree nature of the place with the peeing, unkempt interior, splintering stairs and pillars. However, in addition to this I wished to explore the transcendent beauty of the nature beyond the walls of the building and how this emphasizes the juxtaposition of nurture and discard. To portray this concept and my take on the buildings narrative I started with close-ups of the main window looking out at the nature beyond. As the shots slowly expand, rotate and ascend the stairs there is always a window present in every one. These windows are the only parts to stay untouched in the motion picture as the walls, stairs, pillars and floors fall into rapid destruction. As nature is a prominent concept of the buildings narrative I saw it fitting in the end to leave the building through the second floor window and ascend onto the trees.

Architecture in motion was a very interesting workshop as it opened me up to a different mode of communication - film. This i found was a very effective way to communicate a space and an idea or vision about a space. The workshop as well as the other two have opened up my way of thinking, whether it be about the creative forms structures can take and how to communicate this through material choice or the importance of navagation and layout in communicating a message though colour and visual language or expanding the imagination to create new spaces in a flowing and clear manner. It has been a very thought provoking course and i have learnt and reinforced many skills that i will no doubt use in the future.