Studio tomorrow

Hello group 4

A quick note. I’d like everyone to pin up your work by 10am tomorrow. We will have a practice run for the review next week and also a tutorial on what to do. Please be on time because I anticipate a busy day to get through everyone.

Regards

Alessandro Columbano

t +44 (0)121 331 7937
www.bsa-y1-habitation.blogspot.com

Precedents

Very good session everyone. Keep it up, we’re almost there.

A few precedents for you to consider. Not just for the specified student but for everyone.

>J Harris: James Corner of Filed Operations, ‘Taking Measures Across the American Landscape.’ Crop diagram showing colour variety with soil graphs.
>David Hockney photocollage. One method to how you can show texture.
>Kaveh: Terraced Rice crop hills in the Yannan province of China
>Grace: Tadao Ando, Azuma House and Church of Light plan. How you can use pencil rendering to demonstrate depth and shadow.
>Azadbir: Blue House by MVRDV. A selection of separate dwelling spaces converging around a courtyard (on the roof!)
>Jamal: House Life by Rem Koolhaas. Follow the link for more info

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/11/koolhaas-houselife-is-a-film.php

See you next Friday

ac

G4 Studio this week, reschedule

Dear group 4

As you are aware, we are in the process of recruiting a new head of school. On Thursday there will be the first round of interviews which I have to attend. This date was set by the university and so nothing I could do to rearrange.

Therefore, tutorials this Thursday 10 March will be from 12-7pm JUST FOR GROUP 4. This shouldn’t make too much of a difference and I expect you all to attend still.

Please can you pass this message on but make sure you do not confuse member from the other tutor groups.

Regards

Alessandro Columbano

t +44 (0)121 331 7937
www.bsa-y1-habitation.blogspot.com

Studio tomorrow

Dear Group 4

I’m expecting to see schematic plans and scratch models of your proposal showing the general layout of spaces and the volumes they contain.

However, I’m still waiting for the elevations from the site visit from

Andrew McLellan
Joseph Anti
Alex Gabrysch
Harpal Chandi

At the moment you are preventing everyone in the group to receive the work.


Alessandro Columbano

t +44 (0)121 331 7937
www.bsa-y1-habitation.blogspot.com

Misha Shah - Exploring Parti - Diagram Precedents

Inspired desgins from model and artisitc parti diagrams 

Looking at materials personally i shall combine my ideas with model making and artwork.

Misha Shah

Site Drawing groups, parti precedents

Group list for site drawings:
Plan and material collage: Mia, Jamal, Tulshi, Grace
North Elevation: Alex, Matt, Rachel, Ellie
East elevation: James H, Joseph, Azadbir
South elevation: Andrew, Shaniare, Harpal
West elevation: James B, Kaveh, Sophie

Everyone to pin up work for next week. It was decided scale is 1:50, drawings to fit on A2.

Some tips for you as discussed yesterday: open digimap pdf in Adobe Illustrator, go to File>export>AutoCAD dwg. Usable in sketchup or autcad.
Current digimap 1:1250 @A4    scale up 200%  =  1:625 @A3 etc.

Precedents top to bottom: Earl’s Court Frank Auerback / Giovanni Piranesi / Morphosis relief artwork / Archigram collage

Parti Diagram - Sophie

In the narrative I recieved, the fancier wants to build a new loft that is safer and more secure, so I thought about making the garden a domestic place where the fancier would keep the pigeons and supplies.
I was thinking of creating a painting similar to the precedents, showing different aspects of the design and functions of the garden, from different perspectives. I also thought about using colour to portray the type of person in the narrative.

A few Ideas .... Azadbir Singh

Idea for parti-diagram- Tulshi Patel

The narrative which I recieved was about 2 guys who were "secret" pigeon dealers...
,to recreate this story into a parti-diagram .....I was thinking of creating a abstract painting reenacting the story : including diffrent moods eg dark and textured for "secret" ,through series of canvas's roughly 5x7" .... maybe also including some aspects of Digbeth into the paintings?
 
let me know what you guys think :)
Tulshi

Stage 2 tasks

Hello group 4

A few notes for next week:

1. You will need to implement changes to your work as given from your feedback. You must bring this work again on Thursday for a short re-review.
2. Produce a conceptual artwork for your parti-diagram. This should define a theme/concept/idea which you are to take forward for stage 2 regarding both a)context b)client from the 500w narrative.
   

nb: is your artwork a painting, sculpture, graphic, diagram, video, sound recording? Be as abstract and creative as you like. I want to see some really nice work.

3. Begin your site analysis of digbeth. Refer to the topics on the brief – you’ve already had experience of this from D4-1. Produce an A2 sheet of ORIGINAL work to show.

4. Pin up all work before 10am. Bring equipment for a site visit in the afternoon/lunch.


See you then.
ac

Group 3
Tadhg Mcelean
James Bullock
Harpal Chandi
 
Looking at 'Mapping the movement of Pigeons in the city'
To be presented in a short film or poster format

group work

Our group
Tulshi Patel
Grace Partridge
Racquella Kurian
Joesph Anti
 
Weve decided to make a booklet ...titled:  "All you need to know about pigeons"
including:
1) evolutionary facts
2) poplulation of pigeons in Birmingham
3)Mating Ritual
4)Relationship between pigeons and surroundings
5)relationship between pigeons and humans
6) why people dislike pigeons

Group 4 - Pigeon leaflet 

PIGEON - FRIEND OR FOE? 

Alex Gabrysch

Azadbir Singh

Shanaire Blythe

Mike Warton

Matthew Adams

Regards, Alex.

Drug dealer pigeon!!!

Colombian police caught a pigeon, which was supposed to deliver about 45 grams of marijuana in prison in Bucaramanga. "Drug dealers" to catch near the prison.

Police officers spotted a bird that could not rise into the air and fly away. It turned out that the pigeon is attached to the back of a bag of marijuana, who turned out for "drug trafficker" too heavy, reports Lenta.ru .

Are the cops go in search of the host bird, as well as figure out who the prisoners had to be exposed to pigeon-load were not reported. According to Life.ru The police seized the contraband from the unfortunate bird, and let her go free. "This is a completely new method of drug trafficking - the use of homing pigeons" - said the commander of the police Bucaramanga Jose Angel Mendoza.

A prison inmates in Tula region to deliver drugs specifically bred pigeon. Poultry transported from the territory of member institutions of the criminal group, reports Komsomolskaya Pravda . There he was released near the colony, before it had attached to the paws bundle of heroin, and then dove back to his master.

On the way to a correctional institution for regular transfer of heroin, one of the members of the group were detained operatives. In the car, the officers found a packet of heroin and a box in which there was a dove.

Jamal

Dudley Lofts  - This is a place in the midlands which gives ideas what Pigeon lofts should consist of.

It's the address i got from the artist on the visit..

An attatchment to the window sill of your house. Enabling you to feed pigeons and seperate them.

Persian pigeon loft

Tulshi Patel

21 amazing facts about pigeons : http://www.deterapigeon.com/21-amazing-facts-about-pigeons.htm
 
 

Persian pigeon loft

13th Dec - Meetup Conclusion

Hi all,

 

Again, very dissapointed on the number of people that turned up! For those of us who did, well done! We really got a lot done today especially considering the number of people present!

 

• We have bought the fabric (white voile) - 39 metres! But we managed to get some discounts ;) and they put some extra metres for us! Thanks to Adam who payed for it all at that moment!
• We have also cut the fabric to the right dimensions - thanks to Emma, Lorena, Diana, and myself. Overall we have 32 panels to use for the installation! And it is so cool! Because of the layers and its see-through characteristics, we have created 3D views!!
• We have also 30 wood poles to use with the fabric panels - thanks to the guys ( William, Amith, Imran, I'm sorry if I've missed someone out!)

Few notes:

• The fabric cost us £58.80. Adam payed for it so all of us need to pay him £3 back! So that is £3 to Adam please.
• We know some people were busy trying to finish their essays but the meeting today was agreed and scheduled. It is not fair that some of you are not turning up! We have been split into groups but some of us have to do the roles of others!
• For those who hasn't attended, please make the effort to update yourself as to where and how far we've gone.

And may I just 'personally' add a thank you to those who greeted me a happy birthday today! :)

 

See you all soon,

 

Mikaela

Hi group 4,

 

Just was researching on what material we can use for the fabric screens and came across a website which sells all kinds of fabrics locally in saltley.

 

The link is below for those that are interested however we will discuss this further tomorrow when we meet up.

 

http://www.fabricuk.com/

window width, height

hey..does anyone know the measurements for the windows, and how far apart they are, thanks

ryan

pacha kucha

went to the pecha kucha talks tonight....they were great. 9 speakers each with 20 slides / 20secs per slide. informative, inspiring and refreshingly pacey. i spoke to some 3rd years who said that it was hosted at uni every 2 weeks until last year. they are trying to get it back and would benefit from our support in achieving this. i'm not sure when the next one is but thoroughly recommend going to check it out.

10th Dec - Meetup Conclusion

Hi all,

 

Not many people turned up to the said meet up today, even I wasn't there at the beginning.

 

A few notes on what we have achieved today:

 

• I believe Graeme has made a model! Well done Graeme!
• The prisms will definitely be made on Monday; the shape / container will be cut from wood and Spurge will be using it to mould the plastic container where the polyester resin etc will be poured and set in.

Please can someone update us about the rest that went on that hasn't been mentioned.

 

 

Important: Everyone (group 4) is expected to be at Gosta on Monday 10am sharp. We are running out of time so please do not forget and please turn up! We can only do this as a whole!

 

Thanks,

 

Mikaela

Delegation of Roles

Following on from Mikaela’s post here are the roles we decided on.

PRISM
Mikaela/ Kevwe/ Diana/ Simran/ Lorena

DOCUMENTATION
Diana/ Mikaela/ Lorena/ Ryan/ Ellie

FILM EDITING
Ryan/ Andre/ Purvesh/ Lorena

SOUND
Adam/ Purvesh

MATERIAL SOURCING
Mia/ Emma/ Alex/ Haiqal/ Kevin

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
A. layout:  Andre/ Solon/ Adam/ Imran
B. module construction: Amith/ Kenny/ Graeme/ William

Expense – we will sort out cost of all materials on Thursday morning and make sure everyone contributes.
I have seen other groups already starting in the workshop – don’t get too far behind.

ac