Year 3 Semester 2

Week 1 Studio:

Monday: ‘The challenge of this studio brief is for you to imagine the laneway differently and to propose a design for one of the existing buildings, or spaces between or on top of buildings which enhances the public life of Fort Lane. You might alsoconsider designing a temporary event which creates a temporary public. In…

Week 2:

Monday: Context talk about transitions in film and art/sculpture. Tuesday: Modelling Quick fire design. Construct three models based on transitions from your site sequence. These will be fragments ofspatial thresholds – spaces of movement and transition.Photograph the interior spaces of your models – consider light and shadow, colour and textures.Self-directed Print 3-4 A3 images of…

Week 3:

Monday Script talk pre script the script post script Designer inspo: lacaton vassal Sophie Calle Parc de la Villette Tschimi Temporal span – I’m interested in the period of time when the day comes to an end and the night begins. To watch the transition in the atmosphere, how that changes how we interact with…

Week 4:

Monday: Context Talk on Site Material Narratives and Surface Design Document in detail surfaces of your site in Fort Lane: Select 3 case studies (art and design ‘surface’ related projects) and research materiality, assembly, fabricationprocesses, poetics of space, and relationship to site. The Cineroleum – contructed using cheap industrial, reclaimed or donated materials and made…

Site Research:

https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/the-imperial-buildings/ The semi-industrial nature has been retained with the spaces and balcony formed out of black steel sheet. Previous services that were a mess have been reassembled and organised but not sanitised. Between here and Queen Street are tenancies which border a shared walkway that overlooks the courtyard. While this has sacrificed net lettable area,…

Week 6:

Interior Program: Murder Mystery Party ‘Follow these steps to host this mystery:’ Each guest will each assume the role of a particular characterMystery Parties involve a combination of improvisational acting, storytelling, and creative problem solving. Each guest will play the part of that character throughout the course of the game. Each character has specific personality…

Week 7:

Examples of work: https://surfacecritiqued.wordpress.com/ https://rubymelhuishspatialstudio.tumblr.com/ https://urbanlaneway.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/final-design-presentation-model-booklet/ https://foretst.wordpress.com/ https://jgdesignstudioiii.tumblr.com/ https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/jay6332 Formative Feedback: Who are the neighbors, and how are they being nosey? Answer these questions through the experience of your design. What will encourage viewers to snoop around your chosen site, and what will they see if they engage with your work?  There is a lot…

Break:

Key Ideas: Cinema fireescape scaffolding community a soace for memory rather than history liminal phase Changing a building into a state of mind a glimpse into interior – physical and psychological Transparency Urban oasis/ escape Personal interest/ elements: psychedlics colour florestry nature escapeism kiwi batch villa/ bungalow Ideas: Examples/ Inspo of Kiwi homes: 19th century:…

Week 8: Detailing

Transparency? usable, industrial – welded steel? collages by valentin pavageau greemjeong lex pott Oki Sato unusable, soft materiality? Tripod installation by LIKEarchitects is all stairs and balconies https://www.dezeen.com/2015/05/18/tripod-installation-likearchitects-stairs-balconies-porto-portugal/ Temporal Details: how long is it up for? whats the reason? anniversary? notable occasion? Up for a month so will be built using temporary techniques. celebrating arts…

Week 9:

Research around the diner table. the place for intimate connection. an invitation to invite your neighbour over instead of watching them from a distance? 1950s idyllic family dinner – peak of private dining? “Traditional dining tables were composed of a mixture of different materials made up of marble, wood or metal. The typical structure was…

Week 10:

Other work examples: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IFPy5E-BUjgpYFptYFWDDKZD1w6_AYnR/view https://www.atelierjonesdesign.co.nz/blogs/news/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-public-installation-for-art-week-2019 https://www.dezeen.com/2015/05/18/tripod-installation-likearchitects-stairs-balconies-porto-portugal/ Co design work shop on Wednesday: Workshop: Some of the feed back i got from Frank Liu at the co design workshop was to make the interior space of the house, useable. Up until now i was intending for my work to be for observation only but it makes…

Week 11:

Final Design Decisions: Material decisions in blender – When applying materials to my model in blender i was wanting to achieve a level of transparency with the construction of the house and faux fire escape similar to Do Hu Suhs work with nylon and steel. Still quite structural but with an incredible atmospheric narrative. The…

Week 12:

Presentation: My verbal presentation and feedback from guest designers – Final Changes: Taking my feedback into consideration i have decided to make my installation a permanent fixture in Fort lane. It will have the opening debut in August, along side Aucklands restaurant month, and then be a permanent.  The interior will be open to the…