Arup's work on it can be seen here...
3 October 2013
19 September 2013
Building Hoarding
Saw this near work and it got me thinking about how even the building site before whatever you've designed gets built can be a designed thing in its own right.
Had a quick google around and here are a few other things that came up...
Golden Hour
Taking photos at the right time of day can make even the crappiest scene look actually quite nice.
"Golden Hour" is the time to aim for, and you get TWO a day! One in the morning and one early evening. Obviously it changes throughout the year, so luckily there are loads of apps and stuff to help you keep track of it.
18 September 2013
Adobe Bridge
Currently teaching myself adobe bridge as it seems to be a far better way of dealing with images than the windows or apple defaults.
It has a bunch of great features, such as easy keywords, labeling and batch renaming. My favourite is probably that you can select several images at once and then open them as separate layers in a single photoshop file.
It's designed to be a hub for the creative suite but will deal with all file types.
Work Experience
The last couple of weeks I've been running work experience alongside my own work. It was actually really fun and I think at a very basic level we covered a lot of ground.
I gave them the background information for a relatively small project we are currently working on, and set them the task of coming up with their own design.
I couldn't put her on a train to Hemel Hempstead, so instead we went for a walk around Fitzroy square gardens and I did my best to explain what to look out for during a site survey. As she was from Germany and hadn't been to London before I told her to pick a place she wanted to visit as a tourist and then go and do her own survey. Luckily she picked Regent's park which is just down the road.
When she got back we made a list of her favourite hobbies and considered how each one could become an element of a public outdoor space, and began sketching them out.
We looked at 1 and 2 point perspective, axons, sections and more expensive styles.
I talked her through the basics of Sketchup, and a few minutes later she was drawing quite complicated things with textures and layers.
Then we edited a few images in Photoshop and arranged them in InDesign. After a day of placing text and graphics she had fairly comprehensive design package that she would be able to present at school and develop on her own time.
Images to follow...
21 July 2013
13 June 2013
11 June 2013
Competition entry
Currently working on a big ITT with our lot focused on the redesign of the public realm around e1w. Have 9 or 10 sketches of the proposal to get done by Friday which is going to be tight, but manageable. Doing them in the same style as the bus station drawings but with a brighter palette. All too confidential to post on here for now, maybe after the hand in has passed.
4 June 2013
Visualisations
Here's how I made a recent image for shared surface proposal.
Using the CAD plan and some site photos as reference material I made a quick model in SketchUp.
On to this I dropped in some images of people and trees.
Tracing over the printout gives me the basic line drawing...
...and then (with a few addittions and modifications) the final image is coloured in Photoshop.
3 June 2013
Image searching
This has come in handy a few times and very few people seem to know about it.
With Google image search you can upload a picture and search for it in it's original location, and it will give you a load of similar ones too, great when you have a few pictures that you need to attribute but don't know where it came from.
31 May 2013
21 May 2013
16 May 2013
Imagining buildings of the future
In 2050 75% of the population will be living in cities - what will we expect from the design and function of urban buildings?
Full article here:http://arup.com/Home/Homepage_Imagining_buildings_of_the_future.aspx
13 May 2013
Job!
Here's where I'm working for the next three months (and hopefully longer!)
http://www.arup.com/Services/Landscape_Architecture.aspx
Studio Visits to Vogt and LDA
VOGT
Vogt were really great letting me have a look around and answering all my questions about what they did. It was a very creative feeling studio with lots of bits of this and that around and a real focus on handmade stuff.
Samples and experiments...
Around the studio, on the right is a cardboard model of a bench 1:1...
They talked me through all their models and projects...
They gave me this paper that they had made for the Venice Biennale...
...and even gave me a load of fizzy wine as someone was leaving the office that day!
A few weeks later I visited LDA, here's their office:
They were also really lovely and talked me through all their projects and I got to sit down and chat with someone in most departments. Here are a few shots of stuff around the office.
Fancy plate and mags in the foyer...
Their stone sample shelf...
And loads of felt tips (Prismacolor - fancy!)
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