FMP | #4

/ Perspective drawings

The point of these were to just simplify the shapes I had created. The initial purpose of the cheap boxes experiment was to create silhouettes to work with, drawing them out would help to define the shapes. They also look more like buildings as they are just the basic outlines of what could potentially be a structure.

/ Site

 The site I chose sits just across from the o2 arena. It is right beneath Pontoon Dock station on the DLR line and across the dock from the ExCel center. The place stood out to me because of the overall appearance and nature of the surrounding area. It is newly developed piece of land in North Woolwich and was generally used for factory and warehouse space a few years back. Now that the area has begun to develop financially and small offices and homes are being built nearby, there is still a lot of open space with potential.

The plot of land is just opposite Millenium Mills, the old flour factory, and is pretty much unused. The whole area around the dock is pretty derelict and raw and has a lot of potential for development.

I think its a great location for what could potentially be a high-rise building or a small estate. It is right next to the dock, there is an estate nearby which is Barrier Park, there are good links to the DLR stations and the Emirates Air-line cable cars and its in a newly developing area. 

/ Putting models onto site.

Putting the models I make into my site is a very integral part to my project, I need to see what it would look like in the surrounding area, see if the structure needs developing and to show that I intend on using this thing that I have made as a structure. These were pretty basic, I simply photoshopped them onto the land and played with the perspective to make them somewhat more believable. The one thing I failed to do, however, was to include a scale model to give a more accurate representation of the sheer size of the structure. That is something I need to begin to consider when I think about making and developing. I need to give an idea of scale and with this I have not done that. 

/ Shapes and Silhouettes 

Working on the idea of shapes and silhouettes. I like that I have been able to progress from a statement about 'cheap boxes' to creating examples of cheap boxes, creating formations using them, re-drawing them and now I have used one of those drawings to create even more complex and developed drawings and shapes. These are more clean-cut drawings of my little models and by using rotation and multiplication I have created some very interesting and potentially successful shapes. What I like most about these is that they are all pretty abstract, although something geometric isn't usually associated with abstraction I think it works when you consider what the reality is. The reality, in terms of these, is that these are meant to be developed drawings of a structure or building. Looking at these you don't really get that impression or the sense that 'yes, these sure look like buildings to me!'. They look more alien and certainly wouldn't strike me as something used to inspire a council house.

Instead of thinking of them as a building from your normal perspective (from the ground and up) I started to consider if these shapes could be what they look like from above, a birds eye view. It was a way of helping me reconsider the form of the proposed building from a different perspective.