The character/ activist

The scheme has evolved from analysis of the city and how people intact with it, the design reflects on the city in a larger scale. The activist has closely analysed use of the city and this analysis and research needs to form a vital part of my project, many elements of which link to my thesis. The project needs to reveal his thoughts and workings in order to reveal the depth behind the scheme. I need to consider how to present the intricate workings and testings of the activist. I think in this way my project almost needs to develop a dual personality in it's presentation.

How the space works

I am trying to express the spaces created by the instalation. From the plan I have tried to compose some of the interior views. These images will form a vital part of expressing the feeling and athmosphere inside my instaltaion. I will draw from the perspective of a pedestrian but also from inside the car, as these are the two ways the instalation can be experienced.

Time - the two year driving force

These sketches show the drawings I need to do to show how the structure is  effected by time. 

Depictions

I have done a series of drawings to depict how the structure is effected by time and the conditions that develop over time. Hopefully this graph shows how things fit together over the two year period, I have tried to consider the project at 5 main points: instillation, +6 months, +12 months, +18months and +24 months. 

Reference - Clare Twomey

Clare Twomey is a ceramic artist who makes large scale ceramic installations.  Images from consciousness/ Conscience, which was in the ceramic biennial in Korea.

This installation of 7000 hollow bone china tiles laid on the floor, forces you to become a participant immediately as you enter you become a part of the work as the floor breaks underfoot. Clare Twomey is described as being like a composer in this piece; she has made the work but it is up to the player in how it is 'played out'.

I love both the idea behind this piece but also the visuals, I am particularly drawn to work which requires interaction and even more so when it is delicate in form and done with such a sense of beauty.

Up until finding this work, a few people had been questioning my work in terms of the physability of my project and how the fallen fragments of shale would have to be collected. I felt this was bringing to much practicality to the project and the essence of this dissolving form which happens without human interaction yet provokes human interaction through its' changing form was being overlooked and almost forgotten by my tutors, to me this is the essence of the project and this angered me.

I had been trying to think about the practicalities of the dissolving/ crumbling form alongside the narrative of the project when I discovered this project, and this has solved my problem. This is beautiful and poetic yet also relatively practical and even more so in the fact that cars will be crushing the fragment (even better if some of them puncture the tyres thinks the activist).  I can now develop the narrative of the floor through time from tarmac to powder which will coat the tyres so that hopefully they leave a trail across the city when they depart.

Petrol Station Honfleur, France

I love this cool petrol station in france - it's like a greenhouse - yet it sells pollutants.
This design allowed me to see the structure within the roofs of these buildings - it allowed me to consider changing the roof without effecting the structural properties.

ROYAL ACADEMY Modern British Sculpture

I have decided that to support my final model I will also create a series of narrative drawings which describe what it's like to inhabit the space. These will mainly be perspective drawings and I will try to layer information about both their structure but also atmosphere to depict the environment. I am hoping that I can create a series of these drawings which describe the space and materials.

I am currently trying to establish the views that will be vital for the project to be understood, I am exploring these through sketching and referencing, and these will develop into drawings.