learning journal
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Selection of work from BSc Architecture at Cardiff University Year 2 2010-2011TRANSCRIPT
AMIRA PRESCOTTA COLLECTION OF WORK
2010 - 2011
LEARNING JOURNAL
MEASURE
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING
URBAN CONDITIONSGREENERY
BARCELONA
FIGURE GROUND
VERTICAL STUDIO
CONTENTS
MEASURE
PRINT MAKER’S STUDIO
Explorative insight into a space with personal attachment. My mother’s art studio at home, originally a conservatory yet has been adapted for her use as a printmaker.
Photographed is her at work, the enormous printingpress, around which the arrangement of space is orientatedand the fantastic light the space manages to capture.
PRINTMAKING
Part of my analysis was subjective through the medi-um of printmaking, studying the physical process of creating prints before going on to carry out my own print studies.
Shown is a collograph being inked up ready to go through the printing press (above left) and studies of the difference between the plate and the print created (above).
PRINTING PRESS
Detailed study in pencil. Made by my grandfather and passed down my mother still uses this as her main printing press.
Focusing my subjective analysis on studies of light within the space, it depended on the weather outside combined with how the ‘sails’ of curtains were arranged.
The imagery therefore for my prints was a ship at sea in different conditions.
SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS
Bright good weather requires the sails to be fully out to diffuse the bright sunlight entering the studio.
SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS
Overcast weather causing less light into the studio.
SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS
Gloomy, dark weather means the studio has a very different atmosphere within.
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING
Panorama of surroundings to site.
SITE ANALYSIS
Elevation of view from Site.
DESIGN
CONCEPT BOARD
Driving concept of our design was the need to intergrate and encourage a sustainable way of life such as home grown food as well as providing sustainable housing.
Design ProposalNorth
MASTERPLAN
Walk right into the GardenEvery kitchen of each dwelling to walk directly onto their private allotment garden.
Process of growth,collect, cook, enjoymentof home grown produce
is intergrated into dwelling.
Space of RetreatIndividual, quiet areas for work, relaxation, reflection
Heart of the homeKitchen, dining, living areas to be united,
open and create the hub of the house. Full of energy and enjoyment.
Relax with a viewMaximise on views, making sure
every room has one.
All Living rooms to look out over the Taff river and beyond
ManifestoSustainable Housing
Combined use of Rainwater harvesting for both dwellings and allotments, Ground source heating and Solar Thermal panels on the roofs
Materials used to be locally sourced
Individual manifesto for dwelling design
IDEAOGRAM
Walk right into the GardenEvery kitchen of each dwelling to walk directly onto their private allotment garden.
Process of growth,collect, cook, enjoymentof home grown produce
is intergrated into dwelling.
Space of RetreatIndividual, quiet areas for work, relaxation, reflection
Heart of the homeKitchen, dining, living areas to be united,
open and create the hub of the house. Full of energy and enjoyment.
Relax with a viewMaximise on views, making sure
every room has one.
All Living rooms to look out over the Taff river and beyond
ManifestoSustainable Housing
Combined use of Rainwater harvesting for both dwellings and allotments, Ground source heating and Solar Thermal panels on the roofs
Materials used to be locally sourced
AXONOMETRIC
Exploded axonometric of individual dwelling design.
DETAILS
RELAX ENJOY PREPARE COLLECT GROW
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DWELLING PLANRELAX ENJOY PREPARE COLLECT GROW
BARCELONA
RCR LIBRARY
MACBA
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
STREET ART
FIGURE GROUND
TOWN CENTER
DENSE
INTROVERTED
YNYSANGHARAD PARK
WILD
SEPARATED
PONTYPRIDDSITE ANALYSIS
NO CONNECTION OF HIGH STREET TO RIVER BELOW
WHERE TWO RIVERS MEET
WHERE DANCE AND ART MEET
WHERE TWO RIVERS MEET
WHERE DANCE AND ART MEET
PONTYPRIDDDESIGN CONCEPTS
OPEN UP HISTORY GAP IN HIGH STREET
STREET ELEVATION 1:200
CONNECTION TO RIVER PIER
STREET ELEVATION SCALE 1:200
OPEN UP HISTORY
STREET ELEVATION SCALE 1:200
PONTYPRIDDDESIGN CONCEPTS
GAP IN HIGH STREET
STREET ELEVATION
DEVELOPMENT
Sketchbook process work (left).
Concept to create outdoor public space that gives connection to the two rivers. Ideas of a pier, in terms of resting over the water and materiality (above).
DEVELOPMENT
Perspectives exploring the expression of materiality and placement of openings.
DEVELOPMENT
Section of design exploring relation of spaces to one another (top left).
Ground floor plan looking at movement through the gallery and relation of solid core to more open grande gallery space. (left).
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VERTICAL STUDIO
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Ham
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dam
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Pete
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Har
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John
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BOOK WHEEL
SURFACE RULES
We looked at first creating visually exciting diagrams displaying mundane, random information on a series of books. Then taking the ideas of ruled surfaces and diagrams forward to design a mobile library, in our instance the Book Wheel, building a physical prototype at 1:2 (pictured in use above) and creating a stopframe animation of how it would be used.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rNrVslObs8)
AMIRA [email protected]