Not Happy At All!!!!

Good news or bad news? I don't think there is much good news. Today was the last tutorial, we were told that for friday we should have not only have plan sections and elevations of our buildings, but also that we should have a rough draft of our final presentation which should display all the information that we have covered over the last 12 weeks. Apparenty we will be graded on our presentation only, and the verbal presentation will not count towards our grade which means the presentation should read clearly and display all the key aspects of the project. Kinda daunting considering i've yet to realise a building!!

Spoke to one tutor at the start of the session, wasn't much help. told me i needed to get floor plans ready by the end of the day so i could discuss them with the other tutor. Wasn't the most helpful request considering i've been trying to pull together floor plans for the last 4 weeks! Needless to say by the end of the session i still had nothing.

The next tutor was more helpful. I told him i was stuck so we put the paper away and spent an hour talking about what i was trying to do and spent some time looking at Big.dk. All there projects, no matter how complex have simple diagrams which illustrate the key moves. Having looked at these i've a better idea of how i can put together a diagram and a building.

The interim is on friaday, but he told me have a clear diagram of how the building will work, how the spaces will be arranged in plan and in section. This is far from an ideal postion to be in, but there is not much else i can do.

Week 12 - Starting To Panic!!!!

I've still not got a clear diagram of my building, i don't know what i'm doing wrong, maybe i'm trying to do to much?? I've prepared some quick images to display how the osborne st units might work, but other than that i'm still at the same palce i was a week ago. Think i'm gonna see both tutors today, one at the start, one at the end, hopefully i can pull something together in that few hours?

Possible uses for Osborne St units.


Cd Production


Cafe



Festival Stall


Small gig


Printing


Rehersal


Repair


Sales

Repairing The Context

I've been strauggling to come up with a cohearant diagram for my building. Can't seem to put all the pieces together. The tutorial yesterday wasn't great, again there is still alot of work today. We discussed factoring in some of the aspects of the village into the venue. Rather than having a huge venue that only fuctions for a couple of hours i was advise to try and incorperate some of the servises and facilities that will be available in the village. Repairing the context of Osborne st seems like solution. Creating a series of multifunctional spaces, similar to the arches of Kings court, which could link into not only the venue but also the festival sight.

Building Concepts

Today i present my concept diagrams for Building. The tutorial went well but it is obvious i have a lot of work to do. I'm kinda worried that i'm not further along, but i thin i have some nice ideas that should come together.


The main ideas for the buidling reamin the same, i want it to act as an entry point to the village, including festival times. I see it becoming an urban landscape, something similar to FOA's Yokohama Ferry Terminal, where the space are hidden underneath the landscape. I want to encourage people to explore the landscape, to use it, to inhabit it. I'm keen to postion the Bar on this upper level.


I want the building to house a dual aspect stage so at festival time the site can benefit from 2 stages, The main stage on top of the Rehearsal and Recording Zone with a back up stage opening up from the rear of the venue.





I intend for the auditorium to hold somewhere between 500 - 1000 people depending on seating arrangements. Opening up the stage to the ouside could potentially double or quadruple the posssible audiance.

Week 11 - Back to work

That 2 weeks flew by. Manged to get the compliance document finshed, seemed to take forever. Got all my work re-presented and re-formatted ready for print. No cv or work portfolio, but having everthing finished should make thing alot easier when i get to it.
Ready to start back to the task at hand. only 2 and a bit weeks to the final interim which means only 3 tutorials, not much time at all considering i've yet to realise a building, oh well, time to get cracking.

Easter Break

We have two weeks off for Easter and I'm going to use this time to work on my portfolio and compliance document. Hope to get a CV and work portfolio sorted out too. Going to leave the this project on the back burner for a while, i have a past experience of working continually during the holidays and make no progress. Hopefully when we start back I'll be fresh and full of ideas. Fingers crossed

Client Brief

In order to proceed with the venue design I've drawn up a rough Client and Project brief. This document will be edited as the project continues, but for now it will help to answer some of the design questions.