Events 2018

Day 9 - Today groups are preparing for presentation with Bruntwood tomorrow.

DAY//9

And the winner is.......team STACKED!

After discussion our collaborators chose team's 'stacked' design as it was very flexible and customisable! Our collaborators are planning to make a sample of the design by the end of May!

Everyone working hard for the presentation of our scheme to the client tomorrow, finalising some good ideas before our mock presentation at 4:30pm!

After my poor attempt at surfacing the pitch last week, we have employed a new groundsman and the site model is looking just a little bit better.

Day Eight: The finishing touches were added to the window detail last week. These models were cast in three different mixes of plaster to represent the process of weathering of stone over the years.

DAY//9

PRESENTATION DAY!

Today it was the final presentation to our collaborators Vicky and Simi from Luna. Students presented their final models and booklet explaining their design process, materiality, connections and cost.

Simi and Vicky were very impressed of all the designs and had a hard time picking the winner!

COLLABORATOR FEEDBACK//
Today our collaborator Kevin came along to have a look at the work produced by the group so far. He praised the accuracy of our site model and stated that he was very impressed with the quality of work. We are likely to donate the site model to the project team after our exhibition in university.

DAY//8

After our events session with the students we worked on our events video. We made interviews both to the students and the co-ordinators talking about the event brief, aims and experience.

Next steps: editing and finalising the video!

DAY//8

Today was the last working day before the presentation on Monday! Students were working on the final touches on their models at the wood workshop as well as at the studio space. Other members of the teams were working on finalising their construction booklets in order to make it as detailed as possible.

Can't wait for the presentation!!

DAY 9

After students' presentations and Luna's decision for the winner we spent sometime with students to present them our work from 3rd year undergraduate course. This was a small introduction to students for the following years as well as the expectations for a 3rd year student in architecture.

DAY 9!

Members of the group "STACKED" cannot hide their excitement after the announcement of the competition winner!

Excellent work!!!

DAY 9

Final presentation day!
Students presented their final design supported with models and a construction manual to our event collaborators Simi and Vicky. They explained their design approach in depth to them and describe how the workspaces can be assembled and disassembled easily taking only a few minutes. (Luna's requirement for the design).

After the presentation Vicky and Simi took some time to analyse the designs and conclude to the one that fulfils the most their requirements. It wasn't an easy decision because as they have explained all of them have been really good and students spend a lot of time on them. But they have concluded to team "Stacked", a design proposal that was clever and enjoyable, as well as constructed easily using re-usable materials.

Today we are working on our teams final preparations ahead of tomorrow’s presentations to our collaborator!

As part of the submission, Group 3 have started re-collaging their response to the Merz art movement and the brief which just so happens to be a toilet seat, questioning what is art and the resourcefulness of unorthodox materials.

Enjoy

Site plan progress.

Group 3 continued to develop their A1 site plan on Friday, integrating different materials for different topography textures along with acrylic paint to highlight individual areas.

Just Kidding!! Kareem worked just as hard. Good job guys model's looking good

Roof fabric, measured and cut to size. Ready to be stitched at sown

Day 9
Workbenchers with the coordinator LUNA.

Day 9
The winning design is STACKED..
Congratulations to them and great work by all..

DAY 09 // Today the first year and second-year students have made tiny small scale T-shirts, bags and laptops to add context to the model. The model looks great with the context!!
Keep up the good work group!

Again a big thank you to Tom for coming in for an interview. Some more great footage for the final video.

The 1st and 2nd years are working hard on some final posters for the event day at the Wai Yin Community Centre.

Interview done. Another part of the video completed. Brilliant to get the insight of our artistic collaborator, Tom Brown, who has been kind enough to give up his time to work with the students during Events. Discussing how he started, what his inspires him and how he has found working with us all.

Cannot thank him enough for all his help during this project!

Check out his amazing work:
https://www.tomwbrowndesign.com/
Or follow him on Instagram:
@tom.w.brown

DAY 09 // Anna Bezulska // The GA drawings are almost in the completion stage. Final touches and contexts are added to the drawings today.
Great work Anna!

DAY 09 // The physical model is looking great! The girls are adding final touches to the model to make it come alive, adding t-shirts and totes. Can't wait to show you the final result!

Day 9
Students posing with their models..

This morning a base layer of spray paint is being applied to the plywood panels ready to add the stencil designs later today!

Our team is working hard on making a publication documenting the day which can be used as a physical record and precedence for future charrettes.

The team is bringing over all the models and design sheets from the town hall to Manchester School of Art so that the team can properly document and catalogues competition submissions.

Our final colour swtaches for Spatial Capacity Comparisons & Conclusions Booklet and South Manchester map.

DAY 09 // Final stages! We started the morning by reviewing what we have been up to last week. We went through the Indesign document and the visuals this morning, as well as reviewing the design, in order to make the relevant tweaks and amendments. The design is looking great!

DAY//9 | PRESENTATIONS

Presentations are being done in front of our Collaborators from LUNA - Simi and Victoria. They seem to be liking the disparate ideas that the groups have come up with. Let us see who wins the competition today. later we will be having personal interview sessions with the groups that will go into the video.

GOOD JOB GUYS !!!

Take a glance at our spatial capacity report on study of scio-economic context of South Manchester. The report sets a baseline for future development of age-fridendly Manchester.

Presentation model taking shape for the presentation tomorrow. The model will allow for students to drop their proposals in.

DAY//8 |FINAL OUTPUTS

Now that we are heading towards the finishing stage of Events 2018, the 5th years decided to check in on the student works just to guide them in completing their Construction booklets that will be submitted to LUNA on Monday after their presentations. The students had a few issues regarding expressing their designs through the booklets. So we had a sit down with each group and worked on their outputs together.

It felt really good to see some distinct ideas not only in terms of the designs but also in every groups representation of their works.... Good Job guys!!!

Kyra putting some final touches to her tree top walkway and football stand for tomorrows presentation.

Day 9
Presentation of designs to LUNA.

DAY//8 | INTERVIEWS & VIDEO COMPILATION

So as Fariz was talking about in his earlier post, we have started compiling the videos and interviews to make the Events Video. So as a flow plan, we have interviewed the three main actors in this events - Collaborators(the clients), Coordinators(5th years) and Students (1st & 2nd years), giving us the idea of the overall work brief and experience.

The video will be completed soon guys!!

Monday 30.4.18- One of the groups presenting the paper model. The models are going to be included together with the poster for the exhibition.

Monday 30.4.18 - The final presentation to the member of Save Oxford Road Corner. Positive feedbacks were given due to the unique way of presenting the narrative to the public.

Looking forward to sharing what we have produced the last week during the community engagement session today. It will be an opportunity to get the public's opinion on the booklet, exhibition and games organised.

Friday 27th: group discussions about comic progression and more finalised narratives and designs.

Tuesday 24th: Comic progression continues along with the production of small paper models to showcase ideas.

Last Push today to hopefully finish the build!

Video in the making!
What I realise is photographer wil not appear in the video. Additional skill learnt for making video.

EVENTS FILM// It may be Sunday but we keep on working hard to make sure everything goes to plan. Today was dedicated to video editing and putting together the content we have gathered for our events film. Final touches tomorrow and we are ready for submission!

Going for the last push on the construction of the ticket booth tomorrow. Our aim is to complete the construction and put together the ticket booth modules by the end of the day.

Day 9//

Posters are printed and we are ready for the exhibition at Wai Yin Welcome Center!

Day 8 (27 Apr)
Scenario Diagram

Day 8 (27 Apr)
Detailing of louvre partition

Day 8 (27 Apr)
Detailing of furniture

Day 8 （27 Apr）
In order to work productively, we made a list for task allocation to make sure everyone work on what they are good at. Studio working throughout a day helped us to sort out a lot of problems together!

*REMINDER*
Ahead of tomorrow's exhibition at Pozzoni's Office in Altrincham, please ensure you all arrive at 10:30 at MSA (room 809) to prepare the final touches to the exhibition pieces.

In the afternoon we shall be travelling via the tram network to set up and exhibit your work, so please ensure you have your tram tickets/far ready (this will cost approximately £4.70).

We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

29/04/18

#INTHEMAKING

Another re-discovered snapshot of some focused work. Incredible patience proven by all the teams cutting out all the little bits and pieces and working on everything as long as it took to actually create the interventions for the site.

29/04/18

TEAMWORK

Everything that was created would not have been able without the incredible teamwork within the teams that were formed in the first week of the program. It was interesting to see how the dynamics evolved and everybody grew closer – not only within the small teams but also the whole group.

29/04/18

#FOCUS

A lot of focused working was going on, especially during the last couple of days, results to be presented..

29/04/18

#PROGRESS

The most crazy thing to see was how all the sketches and little bits and pieces turned into one large 1:1 intervention that could be potentially used, in form, for the site.

29/04/18

#RECAP

At the end of the week it was time for us to recap the week, muck out the images we’ve taken and get some undergrad feedback on the first video attempt. It has been two busy but productive weeks with a lot of firsts not only for the first and second years but also for us! Flicking through the snapshots of the work in progress makes us even more curious about what all the work is going to look like assembled at one space in paradise works.

Since hosting the charrette the team have been receiving some fantastic feedback from staff and students alike across the 13 northern schools of architecture who joined us on the day. The team have sought to gain a wider social reach through sharing posts and updates on social media- even catching the eye of RIBA President Ben Derbyshire who was 'super impressed' with the Northern Soul Charrette!
#reimaginingmcr #northernsoul2018 #OurTownHall

Tomorrow is the final presentation of students to our collaborator Luna. They will present their final idea to Luna along with their final models and a construction booklet.

After the presentation Vicky and Simi from Luna will have a discussion on the designs and decide the one that fulfils their requirements the most. On the same day we will announce to students the winner. Luna will have the construction booklet of the winning design and once they get their funding they will be able to construct the work space by following the instructions in the construction manual!

Almost there!

I Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.

Just a quick reminder about tomorrow’s final presentation with our collaborator, Simi and Vicky from Luna will be joining us at 10:00 am however, we need everyone to be in at 9:30 am. Bring also physical models & construction booklet.

DAY// 8 INTERVIEWS

Events coordinators conducted an interview with 1st, 2nd & 5th years. Additionally, we went through the workbencher’s booklets to make sure it is presentable and ready for Monday’s presentation. Excellent work workbenchers!

DAY // 8 FINAL MODIFICATIONS

Final alterations on the construction booklets, detailed models for Monday’s presentation with Luna.

DAY// 7 INTENSIVE MODEL MAKING DAY

Workbenchers seems to have really enjoyed today’s task and close to complete all the required outputs. A very successful & fruitful day!

One of the initial sketch model showing the idea of sliding model base.

Making a time lapse.

Concentrate!

DAY 08// Visualise, draw, make! Day 08 consisted of a lot of drawing, testing and refining which was then translated onto a 1:20 model of the proposal. All students took on board previous feedback from the client and fifth year students and through critical thinking managed to solve many design problems. Not being resistant to criticism is always a challenge but once you learn to take both positive and negative feedback on board you can reflect and design better, which is something all BA students learned during this event.

Day 7: Interior Render of the SSK Boathouse by Zafir Ameen

As the week has continued on site, the återvinna team and the welcome centre community have continued to build a relationship we hope will continue long after the build is over.

We have been; treated to some brilliant food produced within their grounds, given guided tours of the chicken coupe and vegetable sheds, and even had our portraits painted by one of the locals. And this is to name just a few!

We cant thank the centre enough for offering an experience to the team not only focused around construction project and hope the diverse nature of the centre's activities have been as inspiring to the students as they have to us!

Its been a tough week for all our students, constantly exposed to undesirable weather conditions. Nevertheless, we have continued to be impressed by there efforts to complete construction, with work completed on Friday exceeding that of the proposed schedule.

Similarly, as the prototype has continued to progress, many of the community members have expressed considerable interest in our chosen construction method. The project begun as a manual that could enable individuals to do so and it is a pleasure to witness the real world applications unfold.

*book making*
In preparation for Monday's exhibition, the groups started to collate their concept and development sketches into presentations books....

Friday a construction day! Some of us went to the wood workshop to add the shelf on the ticket desk and adding medium sized tubes as well for making the desk look much more interesting. We had a very productive time in the workshop. Well done guys, we are almost there!

We would like to thank everyone for their hard work this week and wish you all a lovely weekend!

Just a quick reminder to follow us on our instagram page @msa_phase to keep on track with the events programme of groups 04 and 19 as the days go on! Make sure to keep an eye out for our community engagement event on Monday!

Group 1 Students have produced an excellent model, despite unceremoniously ripping up my map in the process!

Day 8//

#Exhibition poster 4 _Construction on site

The winning team has been announced. Congratulations, the hard work has finally paid off. #reimaginingmcr #northernsoul2018 #OurTownHall

The final proposals are being judged by our esteemed jury.
All the designs are really impressive, exciting and have shown a variety of interesting approaches to answering the brief. It's going to be a tough decision to make!
#OnlyGodCanJudgeMe #reimaginingmcr #northernsoul2018 #OurTownHall

Day 8//

#Exhibition poster 3 _ Construction manual, material list and scalability

Day 8//

#Exhibition poster 2 _ Model making workshop

Day 8//

#Exhibition poster 1 _ Design brief