Events 2017

Here is our map we created from wandering around the city and and being enticed by local attraction around the city centre.

Another successful day with the Flaneur Group! Everyone created some remarkable sketches in multiple mediums and really engaged with the project.

Discussing ideas following our initial visit

We've taken dimensions of the furniture, ready to start the design process

The students chose ten pieces of furniture from Mustard Trees furniture store, most of which were in disrepair or badly damaged. In the coming days we will be salvaging parts for the final products

Collating our furniture together with Mustard Tree

Our Initial visit to Mustard Tree was a huge success

The photo says it all.

First series of prototypes finished! Ready to start looking into materials and the finer detail.

Check out our pinterest board set up by 1st year Eva Haselhuber. Some great precedents being found for our prototypes

https://uk.pinterest.com/evahaselhuber/reshelter/

Design Development in Progress.. What is the ultimate frame?

Session 2 Presentation from this morning! Let's go guyz!

Andrew Turmeau presented some sketch layouts of potential refurbished buildings to provide shelter for the homeless community of Lincoln.

Session 2 - Paper Tessellation Workshop

Our students produced series of tessellated paper models to inform their design. In the afternoon, we are developing these models further. The atmosphere of today was relaxed and fun.

Following our trip to Ralph Cappers furniture showroom yesterday we have started to refine designs and make small scale models.

Second day of events and we have just finished the first part of our tour around Manchester! Starting from the university campus, we via Oxford Road to Castlefield, past the canals and lock where the only detached house in Manchester is still standing. In the background the Beetham tower signals Manchester's changing urban landscape, which is something we want to explore further as a topic for the installation. We also walked past places such as Granada Studios and the old roman ruins of Mancunium. Along the way we observed changes within the urban fabric, and also the weather with everything from snow to sunshine!

Day 2! Morning introduction presentation from DLA Architects!

Google drive for photo and file sharing here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzxsinQigUAbb1kyeHNEWTQwRUk?usp=sharing

The Pilcrow site visit

A pinterest board has been created to showcase and share a range of precedents which illustrate the type of designs that could be incorporated into the room at the church.

Our day in 1 image

Breaking Down the Rigidity.....Framing

Plan and Elevations of the Room; drawn in CAD

Taking note of the bars to help our designing next day

Off to explore the pubs of Manchester for some inspiration!!

Our final pre-event meeting

Talk from Graham Donning (CAMRA)

Overall, Day 1 of Group 08 went well!

Some of the group members presenting their personal interpretations based on the combined sketches during Sketch Jam!

One of the challenge was to draw portraiture of some of the group members by applying the technique of blind contour drawing. This was done by one single continuous line (without lifting up the pen) and also without looking at the drawing! It was more challenging when we were given less than a minute to create a portrait!

Facts about blind contour drawing:
First, it improves hand-eye coordination. Hand-eye coordination is important in drawing for obvious reasons. Secondly, blind contour line drawing forces you to look at the object that you are drawing. Perhaps most importantly, it helps the artist to understand that representational drawing is all about observation. Without keen observation skills, the representational artist is lost.

Don't worry if you had similar silly sketches like this. Looking at what I have.. It seem absurd, right? All I can say is, practice makes perfect!

Basic sketching demonstration and tutorials by our group member Raden. From simple line strokes to contour drawing, all to emphasize the idea of proper hand-eye coordination while sketching. More update to come!

The morning started with the introductory session among group members, followed by ice breaking session, sketch jam (a sketching game) and also introduction to basic urban sketch.

Day 1:
The afternoon was spent visiting the 1966 World Cup Exhibition at the National Football Museum.This provided us with lots of historical background about the 50 year anniversary since England's 1966 World Cup triumph.

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Relive'66 Crew at the 1966 World Cup Exhibition, National Football Museum.

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The afternoon was spent visiting the 1966 World Cup Exhibition at the National Football Museum.
This provided us with lots of historical background about the 50th year anniversary since England won the World Cup in 1966.

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The morning ended with “show and tell” presentations at which each group explained their initial sketches, themes and inspirations for the Relive’66 installation.

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Following the site visit the team was split into groups of three and the rest of the morning was spent brainstorming, sketching ideas and researching precedents.

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Introductory site visit and discussion about the brief, outputs as well as fun and fit activities Group 15 has planned for the next 2 weeks.

Morning session 20.3.17
Welcome presentation introducing the brief, the theme of the event as well as some precedent ideas before heading to the site.

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At the end of the day, we gathered at cafe in the museum to share/discuss our ideas and day's work and had a brief chat about next day schedule.

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After exploring Bridgewater Canal, we went to Museum of Science and Industry to continue the exercise.

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After lunch we went to Bridgewater Canal to explore the area and record the character of the space with help of sketches, photographs and films.

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After introduction we had Haiku writing exercise. Everyone choose an image of the space from the list of space selected and were told to write Haiku describing the character, emotion of the space.

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Introductory presentation about the brief, explaining what we are suppose to do for following 2 weeks. This is the first meet were we got to know each other.

The Flexi-furb Brief to Kick things off, looking forward to a fun day of designing tomorrow, 513 at 10am.

A snapshot from stop one on today's walking pub tour

The sunny entrance to our lovely site from today! Thank you Nigh & Day Café!

Today we have analysed our proposed site for the interactive model in Strangeways, North Manchester. We have identified the interactive zone (hatch) & series of plots (yellow) to be designed and modelled individually to suit our future scenario. This approach allows all of the participants to work towards the final model collectively.

In our event we propose to create an interactive 3D model of North Manchester. Based on our current ecological urbanism research in CPU atelier we create a speculative future scenario where natural environment has taken over the built form. We will explore this concept through our interactive model. Today we did a precedent study on similar post-apocalypitic environments.

Interior sketches of Day&Night Cafe

In-Game test shot from the Unity Model

Our first event meeting started with introduction from Gareth. He showed us around while inspiring us with the story of the church. This was followed by Risk Assessment, room measures and some initial sketches. A great start to events 2017!

We ended the day by sketching initial ideas of what our structure could be using our knowledge from earlier discussions, chatting to local charities and from Andrew Turmeau's talk. The ideas focused around a structure used for storage, donation and social spaces that can be moved around the city.

Andrew Turmeau from AEW Architects has kindly come in to talk about his research into homelessness. He has given us a greater insight into the current challenges homeless people face and the ways that architecture can aid in resolving some of these issues.

We are at Student Union for the Homelessness Fair as part of Homelessness Week to chat to local charities about how to get involved with volunteering and fundraising. Also to gain further insight into the issues surrounding homelessness.

Meeting the team: We watched Blade Runner by Ridley Scott (1982) as a great example of a dystopian futuristic urban environment. We are starting to develop our own narrative for a site in North Manchester - looking at Derby Street and its environs and the potential forms that it could take in the future.

Great start to Events! It's been a busy start to the day introducing ourselves and explaining the programme for the week. Everyone seems very keen to start the project.

We have started the events with a site visit to Night&Day Cafe, where we had an opportunity to get the measurements of the venue and do some sketches of initial ideas for the installation.

This afternoon we visited Ralph Cappers for a look at some designer chairs for some inspiration.

Really successful Day 1! Some really good ideas have come out of the design process and we are looking forward to refining some of these tomorrow.

Sketching as a form of representation in architecture, showing textures and details.

Looking back my sketchbook and realize how time flies! This was a live sketch of Brandenburg Gate done during our first year Berlin Trip in 2012.

Great first day of Events at the Whitworth Gallery! After the general introduction to the Deanna Petherbridge exhibition some epic sketches were produced from our amazing group. Promising start to our final installation that will sit proudly within the gallery :)

Thank you for joining us today!

Don't forget our workshop session with Simone Riyard tomorrow.
Date: 21/3/2017 (Tuesday)
Time: 12pm - 2pm
Location: MMU Business School (BS 4.05B)

Looking forward to see you all!

Sketches of the day!
A compilation of students' sketches done for the ice breaking session.

So why is sketching so important?
- It is an initial way to spark creativity. Interesting concepts of design work always come from little sketches!
- It is an effective visual communication tool. Through rough sketches or just showing up your sketchbook, you can easily describe what you do and your creative process to your tutors or your future clients!
- It records time and place. Diary does not have to be written, it could be drawn!

Initial sketches appearing everywhere!

Introduction and initial concepts begging to form, a successful first day! All group 13 students to meet in front of Whitworth Gallery tomorrow at 10:30. Bring all appropriate equipment for site visits, cameras, sketchbooks etc.

My sketch of Aween, without looking at the paper. XD

Real person vs Handsketch

Do they look alike? :D

Day 01 - First event meeting started with introductions and briefings from the seniors, followed by ice breaking session (Sketching games)

Raden was demonstrating on how to do a contour sketch of face with one continuous line without looking at the paper.

'Designers Paloma Gormley and Nicholas Henniger are creating new structures to welcome the 125,000 people that will visit to enjoy delicious food and drink, experience music, talks, club nights, free DJs every night and much more. Some of the UK's best chefs will be cooking on Festival Square, including Gary Usher, Mark Hix and Paul Heathcote. Media partners the BBC, the Guardian and Manchester Evening News will all have a presence on Festival Square; look out too, for walking tours themed around MIF commissions.'

Today, we visited Albert Square and have begun initial studies into material, movement and form.

Dada-esque sketch done while watching Andy Goldsworthy's documentary - 'Rivers and Tides'.

Day 1: Some initial ideas drawn up this morning. Ready for our visit to Ralph Cappers this afternoon. Looking Good.

We have set of to wander around the city and record our responses.
If you have missed us get in touch on 07952647436.

'Counter idiocy with idiocy...'

Great talk from Dominic Sagar this morning, about the significance of the DADA art movement and the history behind the Merz Barn!

Link to Jackie Haynes website:

https://jackiehaynesartwork.wordpress.com/

She'll be giving you all an all day workshop on Thursday!

Here are a few suggestions to things to look up/research in preparation of the week to come. These should help with inspiration for your design concepts and final outputs.

Galerie Gmurzynska
Cabaret Voltaire
Situationists
Kurt Schwitters
Ruskin Museum
Corbusier and his influence of the DADAists
Punk Music/House Music - Critique of Society
Theo Van Duesberg + Mies Van der Rohe
‘Collage City’ by Colin Rowe
Archigram
60’s Super Studio
Cedric Price
Assemble
Rem Koolhaus - ‘Rural is the new Urban’
‘Reduce Reuse Recycle’
Ai Weiwei
William Powloski
Malovich
Architectons

Here is the Session Plan for the two weeks, detailing the times and places we will be meeting and what we plan to do on each day.