Projects - Architecture
PAINTING ARCHITECTURE
PROJECT NAME:
MATTE PAINTING ARCHITECTURE
LOCATION:
N/A
TUTOR:
Alex Kaiser
DESCRIPTION
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun”
-Pablo Picasso
Without architecture, we would have little in the way of painting. Moreover, whether painted on walls or merely hung on them, paintings need architecture to preserve, perfect, and define their being. By combining different media, and applying wide range of drawing techniques, this project explores the relationship not only between eye and hand, but between eye and hand and mouse and screen and paper.
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CRATE PAVILION
PROJECT NAME:
CREATING OF A NEW LANDSCAPE TOPOLOGY
LOCATION:
London
TUTOR:
Valentin Bontjes van Beek
DESCRIPTION
The brief of this project I was to design a physical addition to my re-transformed site in East London. My site was the garden of Geffrye Museum and by seeing it in the dual frame of the diptych and referring back to my previous design project I came up with the idea of creating a pavilion, which will bring some dynamic and active atmosphere to the site. Part of the challenge was to use the components of the garden and create a modular structure using the found/left objects in the garden, which will benefit the garden and allow re-producing of its own envelope. This led me to the idea of using plastic crates and growing vegetation inside them, by turning the plants upside down and therefore creating a green tunnel, which could be used as a storage place and as exhibition space for different plants of the garden.
PLUG-IN FACTORY
PROJECT NAME:
A NEW AREA OF ULTRA - LIGHT - INDUSTRIAL BEAUTY DESIGN A TRANS-PLANT
LOCATION:
London
TUTORS:
David Greene & Robert Stuart-Smith
DESCRIPTION
This project is related to the new East London Line route. The brief is to design a trans-plant - a new self-contained, ultra-light-industrial unit for the production, storage and consumption of a hitherto unspecified artefact. This artefact brings the questions of materials, modes of manufacturing, fabrication, production, assembly, methods and means of circulation and consumption. The requirement for this project was the footprint of the trans-plant to be a maximum of 100 m2, providing a minimum of 3 rooms, in which to combine spaces of production, consumption and storage. The first part of the project was “site and programme-less”. The focus was on the frame & skin of the building rather than its function, which led me to design a generic space beyond its function...
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Creepy Crawlies - Drawing Project
PROJECT NAME:
Creating Hybrids between Man-Made & Natural Objects
LOCATION:
N/A
TUTOR:
Martina Schäfer
DESCRIPTION
This is a 4 week individual drawing project. We were given 3 lawn-mowing devices, which we had to disassemble and choose our own man-made mechanical part to investigate further. After measuring, exploring and carefully analytical draw the chosen technical bit, we have been given a natural grown object - bug, which I studied and drew while looking for the differences and similarities between constructed mechanic logic and a grown object. After having studied the two “creatures“, having found ways to draw them and their particular set of information and understanding them, the last part of the project was to draw them together and to construct my own creepy crawly. By exploring different modes of representation and alternative drawing techniques I designed my own Mechanic Phylum...
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CELL CITY
PROJECT NAME:
Making - Scaling - Re-Scaling - Mis-Scaling
LOCATION:
London
TUTORS:
Samantha Hardingham & Robert Stuart-Smith
DESCRIPTION
This is a project about making, combining, linking and comparing. It is an exploration of reconfiguration, placements and composition, using a set of materials over various scales and locations. We were introduced to some preselected ingredients (vent shaft, broom, flash & cuddly toy) for fabrication and modeling, examining what scale means in terms of materials and structure via inventive technical iterations - removing “making“ from the abstract and into the tectonic. We were supposed to find connections between things that are apparently unconnected. Starting with the assumption of creating something without a particular function, than to be itself, full size, we therefore re-read it with its qualities at a scale of 1: 2 500. Re-reading and having a particular scale to work with led us to a programme and consideration of tectonic issues of materials and structures...
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