A task that we were set during final presentations yesterday was to make notes and evaluate four of our peer's work and put it on our blog. Mine are as follows:
Janoo Patel:
Janoo's client was Rachel Baker and her ritual was the experience itself of mountain biking. Rachel asked for a place where she could use as a workspace, however use it as a storage area for things like her mountain bikes. Janoo created multiple models branching from the framework of her aesthetic gesture in which she used wire as inspired by bike spokes, to create a geometric gesture of a Rachel's favourite mountain bike track.
She experimented using the form of facet sheets to create a structure with the underlying essence of the outdoors. She has incorporated a grass floor throughout her space as well as wooden textures and a glass roof in order to help experience this idea. The angular facet forms branch from the walls as well, works as storage too. The perspectives she displayed in her presentation were clear and helped one understand the layout a lot better and how one would inhabit the space. Overall this design is quite unique, and I feel that it meets her client's needs and desires well, however for me with all of the angled facet walls both in the interior and exterior, making it safe would be a major priority.
Natalie Harris:
Natalie had a very interesting presentation and design as well. Her design was based on watching planes fly overhead in which she has designed an exhibition room of transparent tubes filled with L.E.D lights that mimic and trace flight paths. This is a very cool idea in which I feel she portrayed well especially as the exhibition room could be inhabited or simply viewed from afar through the large glass panes that encapsulate the space. The only question I have for this design, which I asked her in her presentation, is how she would consider powering the L.E.D lights as most of them do not reach the roof, and every one of the transparent tubes run outside. Therefore more thought is needed in order to create a way of powering the lights. Solar panels at the end of the tubes?
Emma Solomon:
I loved Emma's design solution to Jess's minimalist approach to a bedroom. Her concept was all focused around the contrast between Tactility vs. Transformability. She achieved this by adapting the bedroom structure so that for example a wall transforms into the main table. She has exceeded the minimalist idea using under floor storage for hiding away elements of the bedroom that are not needed at a particular time. A good example of this is designing the Jess's wardrobe so that is extends out and becomes a curtain.
Honestly I do not have anything I can think of that I would improve or refine to this design as I feel that it is a great example of a practical, functional, minimalist bedroom.
David Argue:
David also had Rachel as his client in which he took a different approach to Janoo in how he approached the design. He wanted to break down the idea that a room is four walls by literally breaking down the four walls and morphing his space in with the landscape and thus blurring the line between interior and exterior. Because on a mountain bike track is uneven ground, he distorted the form of the walls and floor to emulate this idea. Overall I feel this is a unique and an interesting take on portraying mountain biking which I feel that he has expressed well. His video within CryEngine made one feel as though they were racing through his model as if mountain biking themselves which I found quite moving. The main thing I would do, as Kate expressed, would be putting a ceiling on the model in order to make it convey the idea that it is still a space as opposed to being part of the landscape.
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