Material considerations of project
- For the project
- Skin that wraps around urban spaces to denote a new urban territory
- Opportunities for vertical attachment of timber (flexibility)
- The skin becomes occupyable at certain spaces – for attachment
- How does the skin meet historical materials (bricks & timber & oyster)
- How does the skin meet new materials (concrete & steel)
- Properties of skin (which is a line)
- Linear (directional)
- Enclosing
- How it meets other walls
- How it meets ground
- How does it open
- How does it extend vertically and horizontally
- How does a line/skin embody volume
- Properties of timer
- Assembly
- How it meets the ground
- How it meets the roof
- How it interacts with water
- Duration of its exposure to water (constant, periodic)
- Type of exposure to water (dripping, soaking, splashing)
- Exposure to type of water (humidity, rain, snow)
- How it interacts with time
- How could it be not only in terms of visual difference, but there is a deeper meaning to the material conferred by time – its demise.
- How it interacts with activity/play
- What type of timber is it
- Quality of the timber sourced
- Where timber is sourced
- How timber is treated
- Replacement for the same material that has similar properties to timber
- Natural material that reacts with the elements
- Bamboo?
Production
- Rendered/montage elevation of part of project (100m2 @ 1:20/1:50)
- Hand-size mini model of project (or part of it) that distils the material/formal character of project
- 3x precedents:
- they should be videos – that show the passing of time
- one architectural
- one natural/found (a forest, an airplane, a potato)
- one found image/photo of a phenomena, a situation, a texture… a painting… a print.
- Photos from fieldwork
