FIONNUALA

overall scheme

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:54:39 +0000

This is the Route through EUR that is directed by different types of views.
These views are created by different types of fragments.
Right now I am literally making the physical models and trying to be specific in describing what these new views of EUR are. The physical models are taking a bit I have to say. Have been doing sketch models on site then translating in Rhino and making new ones.

underneath the music hall fragment

Sun, 24 May 2009 18:35:31 +0000

at new ground level

Sun, 24 May 2009 18:34:38 +0000

at new ground level

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snapshots of 1.250 site model so far

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:49:06 +0000

next steps..

Sun, 17 May 2009 11:52:59 +0000

okay, so there are 3 areas that are linked and need to be developed:
1. overall composition. 2. How the spaces are inhabited 3. The sequence of views.
These last couple of days I've been building the model where I will be rehearsing my scenarios.
As brought up from preview, there is a need to: establish a hierarchy of views, bring back fragment behaviours from 1st term model, make the intervention less of a literal pictorial translation and more spatial, make a more extreme change or intervention to the site and that the space of the viewer is to be activated by the intervention. So, Monia and I were discussing how both the hierarchy of views and the way the fragments are to be inhabited are based on the scale of the spaces. The scale of EURs Fascistic space renders the individual and their actions invisible. The programmes that Im introducing have specific spatial scales. E.g the galleries have more dense sequence of spaces, as opposed to the music hall that has an open, wider sense of scale.
These types of spaces match with how the fragment is performing structurally also. FOr example, the space of the gallery fragments are narrow and more like inhabitable building cladding where as the music hall fragment is a solid chunk of space that sits currently stands on the existing traffic island.
SO later this weekend, I will blog this drawn up logic whcih will inform me when making the scenarios on the physcial model.

Secondly, I am currently making the intervention as a folded out pattern that is marked with the sections so that it will be simple to update the pattern with info from the scenarios. Once areas or fragments become more fixed, i will replace the pattern with the structural frame work.

a selection of views created by intervention

Sun, 17 May 2009 11:51:46 +0000

programme

Sun, 17 May 2009 11:50:38 +0000

Drawings that Im now working from

Sun, 17 May 2009 11:42:58 +0000

hey, has been a LONG time. These drawings show what I am focusing on now.
1. AXO The overall landscape of fragments. Hmm need to find a better way of describing the overall scheme. Monia and I discussed how its not 1 continuous surface - its actually a composition of fragments that are inhabitable. Here, I am looking at instances within the overall to develop them spatially. I have to be more extreme.Will talk more about this after I blog the 2 other important drawings

i more thing

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:37:12 +0000

Sorry, my computer decided to stop working last night and is now being repaired so could I please have an afternoon tutorial so i can print etc.

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:23:38 +0000

The overall grande vista is composed of inhabitable fragments that are defined by local vistas that occur along the circulatory path. The overall perspective lines create a continuous surface. I need to cut the continuous proposal into cross sections that are connected by the perspective lines. The perspective lines basically define the whole image yet also expand and contract the spaces that occur between them and the existing buildings. I am working on an axo of the model (the cross sections and persepctive lines) that will explain a strategy more. I can already see the types of spaces that do and dont work.

an instance - a side street

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:21:26 +0000