{ Transgression }

THE NEW ISLINGTON CPO DOES NOT FIT ALONG SIDE ITS COMMUNITY.

Making models for the main dish.

Concept Idea

Using Photoshop we produced an image with skeletons in the site we chose to create a representation of what the exhibit would look like. This gave us an idea of the space available and how it would be seen from the outside.

This week has been spent building our kite!

Whitworth Art Gallery Visit - Exploded Shed by Cornelia Parker

We visited the Whitworth and got inspiration for our project, looking especially at the light used and the way the art work was presented, eg. hanging.

Precedent & Initial concept

Employing the samba wood with Styrofoam ball as connection, the molecular structure is a good representation to the bone-shaped microstructures inside the core of the stool, as well as its polygon surface. Therefore, we had our initial concept to create such light-weight structure to protect and display the femur stool.

http://arnoldgoron.com/window-display-isabel-marant-2011-2010

Gelatin with vinegar, thinly slice green apples.

the final piece has a variety of textures

Group working.

Our completed Hut!

experimenting with different lights on our final product

Day 2 - we had to complete tasks in groups of creating plans sections and perspectives, from which we all combined our work to get a general idea of dimensions for us all to work from.

Translating Bauhaus architectural style into food. This architectural style generally has cubic shapes and favours right angles.
Main course - roast pork belly with parsnip sauce.

Experimenting food plating with paper models.

The week was spent putting together our version of the Hut followed by a mini review with Tom & Harald.

Day 1 - we took a trip to Z arts in Hulme to receive our brief and to take down measurements and diagrams from site analysis.

Last week was started by meeting with Tom & Harald, researching Wittgenstien's ideas on Logic & preparing the Hut components for our models

MMU special collection - femur stool by assa ashuach

The collection we chose to take is a 3D-printed chair. The stool is aimed to generate maximum load-bearing capacity with a minimum of materials, and is designed to mould itself to the weight and posture of whoever is sitting on it. The maximum load it can bear is 120KG.

http://assaashuach.com/portfolio/femur-stool/

Working on the final model of the roof intervention in workshop today and yesterday, we were also creating sketch up model for final perspective presentation.

We then had to film the stop motion that we are going to make in order to make our model "perform"

Site visiting - the Brooks building.

It is a new campus building for Faculty of Education and Faculty of Health of MMU. The most impressive part is the spacious public space on the ground floor, facing a large open outdoor garden. With plenty of chairs and staircases, students can enjoy an innovative communicating and learning environment.

This is how we turned a painting into a floor

This is an example of how the extrusions work as well as another of corbusier's rule of a roof garden

These photos show the experiments of different projections we carried out to see what works best.

We then devised a way to slide the facade onto the front of our building (which is made out of the paintings)

We then decided to use corbusier's rule of a ribbon window and continuing the idea of circulation, we designed a grey facade with primary coloured frames for the ribbon window

In the last couple of days we have managed to instal and test out the final project. This process showed us the idea works better than expected!

We then used the spraypaint workshop to spray paint the extrusions grey to make it look more Corbusier Style

We then decided to extrude lines as walls and since some of them were curved, we used heat guns to bend and curve sheets of plastic

We then laser cut the bits that we want extruded from our paintings

1:100 site model completed. It will be used for presentation and giving context to our memorial intervention.

DAY 6/7

The last couple of days have been spent editing interviews, clipping footage and sieving through old film to create a rough draft to present to the group.

Monday 11th May 2015

Thankfully the sun was out! A perfect day for a summer's BBQ. We mingled in the park until 4pm until we were called for a tour around Hulmes Hippodrome - once used as a grand theatre, then a Bingo hall, a club/bar, and now bought by an evangelist group.
It is in a very poor state of repair but it was fascinating to see how once such a beautifully decorated building has now come to an end. Despite all the spider webs and pigeon poo, it still holds an unusual beauty. Its sad to see it go...

2// first brief on the two intense week by event coordinators

Making slides for our presentation

Day 1// We had a meeting in Chatham and received out sketchbooks& t-shirts. After that one of the 5th year students gave us some tips on sketching like line-weighting, shadowing and other drawing technique. We went to central library and Albert square in the afternoon to do some urban sketches. I never had experience that sketching with a group of people together. I quite enjoy it because we can learn much from each other.

"Bumbs up guys!"

TEA ROOM // "it looks mint"

Hangers // colour // colour // colour

The ladder shelves displaying a range of borrowed materials

Working hard in the tea room. The wheelbarrow chairs are more comfortable than they look.

initial sketches and diagrams of the structure. Creating an outdoor space, a pavilion which is flexible and serve different functions.

The folding chair shelves turns out to be a great place to hang coats

Reinforcing the structure.

Behind the scenes, taking final photos for the presentation

Final prototype. Myself for scale.

1// freebies !! we were lucky to be sponsored with these tools :)

Making use of the space by getting some work done!

Flowers and stationary were the finishing touches to complete the office - which is now open for business.

Final touches on the tables. Adding flowers, pens and notebooks to make the place more lively!

Final touches to blackboards. The different boards lead to the different sections / areas of the room.

Assembling the actual pentagons for the booth structure today.

Making the the DJ table in the workshop today.

Sanding and finishing the wooden parts of the pentagons in the workshop.

The Residences team finalising their site plan.

Recording the movement of people inside Chatham.

Getting ready for presentations!

Iain getting excited with the visuals the museum team has prepared!

Next up: the shed team...

Our final product was built up in three sections, through using water to cool the wax and create the form. The form was inspired by caves, and reflects the natural form. The space can then be explored with light and shade.

The artists' residences team bringing Iain up to date with their progress.

3D SketchUp model of the DJ table. The DJ table would go inside the pentagon structure of the booth.

Small model of the DJ booth for Pangea.

In the second week we had established our concept fully deciding to focus on the interaction with light and how wax can form an enclosure which represents natural forms.

On our second day of experimentation we decided to look at how burning candles and the wax which is melted this way reacts with other objects. It is a slower process, but gets some interesting results.

...and the strings

Initial filming site in Northern Quarter.

Site visiting Day 1

Day 2.
We went to the site hoping to find the remaining house but they were cleaning up after the demolition of the last house. We took photos of the site and the surrounding for further work back in the studio.

Interior and exterior renders were made for our scheme, showing the atmosphere and ideally the lighting within the exhibition spaces. The rooflights are carefully designed to minimise glare and to protect the photographs presented along the walls of the spaces. They are also orientated as such to bring as much natural light as possible. This space is the main exhibit hall consisting of models in relation to the Merz Barn, and important/iconic photographs during Kurt Schwitter's life.

Cityscape - Proposed View

With the final scheme, we allocated different drawings for each of us to complete within the group, later collating them together into a single presentation alongside the two other schemes. The site drawings show the context which we are designing upon and briefly describes the constraints that we had to work with.

To finish the room and give it a homely feel we all brought in different objects such as rugs, stationary, books and more.

DAY ONE // Graphic poster showing precedent study into repurposed places.

[Day 4] Idea Development
After doing the sketch model, we made a few elevations, sections, and plans. I did an axonometric view of the art shred, which shows the load transfers and the structural properties in fragments and their relations with each other. The axonometric drawing has three different colours, each represents one side facing on different elements.

Day 6 - 20th May
Try to link all our teamwork together into one so that it will be coherent and consistent for the presentation.

Day 5 [Model making]
A test model was created with grey board strips and wood scraps from the wood workshop, in which Kurt Schwitters always did in his famous collages. He used local resources and especially scraps to frame his collages, like the one he did in London in 1940.

In our design, the stitch texture can be made by very thin wood obtained locally near the MERZ Barn, or by very thin steel strips that are welded or bolted by steel angles and channels to the Steel I columns. The texture shields the interior of the art shred from the strong wind and rain in the lake district, it also creates nice light effects on the interior walls, which also can identify places within.