Tuesday 24/02/09
February 25, 2009
Today, after the lecture, the reporters had a quick meeting in which they talked about the final presentation that will take place in Barnsley on Friday. The reporters should prepare two A1 sheets where they have to talk about previous research projects (R1 and R2) related to the material for P5, and of course about P5 itself (evolution, concept, design..).
After that, we all met in the studio and started again thinking about the design, and again about the bricks’ position as it is the most important and time consuming part of the project process. It will influence the final shape of our structure. We found a really interesting brick bonding for the pyramidal part of the structure and we are developing it! We think we probalby are going to adopt this one!
The top part of this brick small structure is the best brick pattern we imagined: it does not make the central part really wide, it is strong and stable, it does not allow heat rom fire to reach people cooking their marshmallows and it is functional as well.
From this detail we tried to develop the rest of the brick donding and we decided that there would be 6 layers from the ground to under the beginning of the pyramidal part. One member of the groups started using the computer to draw eah single layer and each single brick position in order not to waste time on Friday when we will be building our piece of work!
We also worked out the different holes used as bins, sticks and marshmallows holders. At one end of the gap for the fire there will be the bin and the other end there will be the marshmallow container (both are located right before the beginning of the structure we called the ‘chaos’ part: the brick’s order turns to chaos). The sticks will be located on both sides of the coal/fire’s gap as the brick we will use are perforated, so we though it would be nice to follow brick properties and insert these sticks in these perforations. Also, their position would be functional as people find all they need in front of them and do not have to look around the structure to find sticks.
First idea for the bin, marshmallows, sticks and coal’s position.
Final decision for the different holes. The second picture shows just one hole at one edge of the coal’s gap.
We also though about the part of the structure that turns from orer to chaos and the curves. The idea is that as we go to each edge, bricks are in a less regular position, contains disorganised gaps between them, but all this is made gradually. The level becomes lower and lower and this can be seen as an integration with the surroundings because if we had just one regular and ordered block there would definitely be a big contrast and a bad integration with the site.
Some photos of ideas for the beginning of the ‘chaos’ part.
