Final day of putting things together... magazine is nearly finished! Final push and it should be available online this evening!!! And then paper copies later!
Day 8
Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials today,
Post production day at the studio.
Final submission days, updating the material,
Good work atmosphere.
Looking forward to compiling today!
Today we have explored a variety of solar shading patterns shown above. This afternoon we produced our final images. We are really happy with the outcome and are looking forward to completing the project tomorrow.
We have been in contact with the team at MUD again today. They have loved the different design options we have presented them with and cant wait to receive the final document tomorrow!
The penultimate day of our MSA live action weeks, we dedicated today to finishing our design. This morning we further developed our façade ideas from Day 7, using CAD to test how light would impact the designs.
This afternoon we exported visuals, plans and elevations, of the final design. Preparing for the submission tomorrow!
The team is hard at work compiling and making the finishing touches to our digital resource. Today we will be preparing for tomorrow's presentation to Bernadette, the heritage architect at Islington Mill and Stef, the general manager. We are excited to share the final product and all the creative work the undergraduates have been creating!
Today we had the chance to visit and collaborate yet again with our external partners at Didsbury High School.
The morning session consisted of teaching the students how to produce orthographic drawings for the mobile gallery, it was the perfect opportunity to develop the students hand drawing abilities. It was a great teaching experience for the MSA students and the DHS students.
The afternoon session was mainly focused on model making. We took advantage of the laser cutting machine available at Didsbury High School and produced CAD drawings the day before to cut out on site for the students to put together.
Model Making:
Students taking photographs of their finalised 1:10 Scale models of the Interventions for Chorlton’s High-street.
Brochure Design:
Brochure layout has been finalised on in design for Friday’s exhibition with the collaborators. Students are continuing to create the outputs for the completion of the Brochure.
Lumion Visualisation:
Students have started to implement their designs of the shop fronts on Lumion, starting to bring to life the Virtual model that will be presented on Friday! This will be used to recreate a virtual reality experience.
Today saw significant progress on the physical model, with the roof finally being fastened. The team have worked tirelessly over the past fortnight to complete the model in time for Friday's submission — with only a few minor tweaks to work out tomorrow!
The digital imagery is at a comparable stage, with proposals being rendered and floor plans being finalised. We aim to finish some various perspectives tomorrow, allowing us ample time to finish and collate all of our work by the end of the week and avoid any last-minute panics!
The internal details of the building have now been laser cut and modelled, this includes the internal partition walls, seating, and structural elements of the building. The model is now showing a good level of detail to help explain the massing of the building.
The proposed content of the project is coming together, we now have a series of sketches, renders and proposed drawings that communicate the ideas for the project. We will present these within our final publication
we learned about the history of boiler house, from the very beginning, to the industrial period, to the violence around the neighbourhood in the 1980’s. In the 1990’s the building was used for heating the homes in the area, but now it is the amazing workshop that we are working on!
Working hard on the final proposal!
Today some of the team finalised the updated cost evaluation of our project, while others were working on brainstorming and drawing the landscape strategy and the proposal for the project.
Day 8: INTERVIEW
Today, we had interviews with Nin Khoshaba from Hive Project and Warren Duffy, Head of Estates at North Manchester General Hospital. Their opinions on the proposed open space provide a lot of fresh ideas for the design development.
Today, we run through the exercise that captures the context for our town hall posters. It contextualizes the visual dissemination between the Town Hall and the wider public.
Today we gathered in co-works to present to eachother our progress and to work together to ensure each sub-team overlaps and visually reads cohesively. We held mini-workshops on photoshop, digimap and figma and gave eachother feedback based upon all the expert knowledge we had accumulated from the clients, our own research and guest speaker. It was largely a continuation of yesterday's workflow and tomorrow we are looking forward to collating it together into the digital resource and adding some interactive elements!
Today, the students continued developing their designs and preparing their presentation documents for the client meeting tomorrow. Each of the groups developed physical models and produced visual renders.
Today we finalised the social media posts for Lifeshare's instagram with the poster team.
Meanwhile, the interactive map team finalised the design on Figma, creating a map which highlights the free wifi zones across Manchester. A base map was created on photoshop, then the main streets with available free wifi was highlighted on Figma which became interactive to inform the user of the exact location and postcode those streets.
The aim now is to finish the Figma file to be exported as a HTML code for Lifeshare to embed onto their website.
Look at that!! An amazing model by Alice, Arya, Daud, and Louis really shows off their fantastic design work. Excited to see how people may interact with this structure… Stay tuned!
This was a continuation of day 7 with the first group working on completing the design of the master plan and the other group setting up the pages for precedents and site analysis. The group working on the design documents reviewed the design to make final changes in preparation for making final drafts while the group working on the client bio, precedents and site analysis moved towards completing their pages for the final collation for the youth co-op design document.
Before ending the day, we decided to allocate the team members into smaller groups to create final drafts for the proposal drawings.
We also had a team working on the event space that we were proposing for the car park roof top. This team, made up of Alice Barnes, Arya Vahidi, Daud Ahmad, and Louis Louth, were experimenting with tensile structures to act as a cover for a stage space within our design. Here are some images of the process, alongside some images of the great design.
The day started with measuring out the framework for the roof. We then started assembling the second level of the walls, we did this by building the corner walls to provide stability. As we constructed each corner wall we added bracing for support. Half the group worked on the allotment plots by adding soil and creating a willow arch by intertwining the vines, the willow arch was tied to the front wall for support. We ended the day by discussing the beams and materials that will be needed to complete the roof.
We began the day off by collecting extra crates from platt fields for the exhibition and bringing them to Ryebank fields. We then started preparing the crates to use as walls by adding wooden panelling as a base. Half of the group started sawing and drilling wood pieces to make the allotment plots at the front of the entrance. The day ended with the base walls complete and a rough idea of the roof frame.
In the morning, a Photoshop workshop was run through Microsoft teams.
After lunch, our whole group met over Microsoft teams.
Both teams (The visuals and the Advertisements team ) share their outputs.
Then we planned for the presentation on the next day in Carlton Club.
Day 8 : Finalising the Output Formats for the Final Presentation!
We drew an amazing amount of layouts and sketches for this Friday's presentation and collages after finalizing our collective thoughts and ideas!
Having finished today's session, we're looking forward to compiling and combining all the results, as well as examining the overall results. During our next meeting, we will assemble and set up the presentation mode for our partners.
Following on from designing the planters, our team members Cameron and Keisuke put their rendering skills into practice and created these beautiful renders. These renders showcase how well people will interact with the design and how stunning the designs are. We enjoyed the merging of the planters with the seating, as well as these areas have been adapted to include sustainable energy solutions.
Today we continued working in small teams to meet our deadline for Friday. Students Cameron Griffin and Keisuke Sakamoto have been working hard on different planter designs and drew up axonometric drawings for these amazing concepts. All the planters are designed using the dimensions of pallets to create a more sustainable and efficient product.
Today we completed the two Moguls in the site and re-enforced the position of all the tyres to ensure safety for the children when they play.
Meanwhile, work began today on the willow walkway and our priority was to ensure that the overall structure was stable and that they would not be blown apart in the wind and rain.
We are nearing the end of our MSA live project, and it's never been all work and no play for this group! All posters are nearing completion, and while there is last minute panic, and sudden changes in posters taken up and just as abruptly abandoned, our final aim is to maintain coherency of narrative across the board.
Looking forward to compiling all our final ideas in a booklet/ 'zine ready to be shared digitally.
Look at our undergrads giving it their all! Despite multiple tiny tweaks happening by the minute, the team continues working, passionate about our cause.
Day 7 was a continuation of day 6, with everyone striving to make sure all our posters and collages synchronize well together.
Based on the brainstorming exercise done on day 6, there is an influx of fresh ideas. Let's get all these wonderful ideas on (digital) paper!
Day 6 was all about relaying the client's inputs to the rest of the team and then coming up with a strong plan of action to execute everything. The teams continued working as 2 sub-groups to produce outputs that had different approaches but were unified by the same base concept.
We were all working hard to print, build models, and prepare slides for our partner, City of Trees! Students were given responsibility for printing the visual, and some of them will handle the rest! Looking forward to tomorrow's exhibition!
DAY_7: Complete
Today, we began the process of modelling our interventions for representation at the exhibition. The morning session started with sketches and mind-mapping the different ways for our intervention to be deployed. The team was split into three groups looking at various sites across Chorlton, continuing the work from last week.
We will be holding an exhibition and presenting our final design on Thursday in Carlton Club! Two teams (visuals team & advertisement team) are ready to present wonderful ideas for this community and get feedback to further develop their design.
Day 8 of Dragonscapes! Today started off raining on site, but after a coffee and a quick warm, the team continued completing the mural. We began creating seating out of old or damaged boats from Debdale Outdoor Centre, which was a great success. Today the Dragonscapes team made the pond boat, tomorrow, we aim to decorate this further with additional paints and perhaps some pond plants! We are excited for tomorrow with our final day of construction with finishing touches on Friday, ready for the final outputs!
Today we made willow arches on site! We began by using canes to mark out where each arch would go, then we coppiced the on-site willow and planted the branches to form the arches. To stabilise the arch structures, we braced them with willow ties.
Day 8 - Continuing to work on final outputs (model and posters)
The BA students continued in their two groups to work on the final model and posters. The model making group initially made some material tests, then started to form the base and contours of the park out of cork. The posters group finalised the theme and colour scheme of the posters in the morning. They used SketchUp models to create the basis graphics for the posters.
Day 7 - Skills Workshop
A Revit tutorial both beginners and advanced were taught to the first and second years. In addition of the introduction of Enscape for rendering.
A brief visit by Homebaked team members, the Cherish the Terrace group looked to further develop the brief based on constructive feedback from Homebaked. This was followed by an afternoon where the digital outputs were implemented onto the hoarding design to present a story for Homebaked and locals. Diagrams and images display the feedback process of the morning followed by further development during the afternoon.
In the first half of the day, the modelling team finalised the 1:100 site model incorporating all the play structures on site. The layout team created diagrams detailing the construction of the main play structure to be placed onto the children’s mound within the site. BA students also created perspective sketches and diagrams that illustrate access and experience of the play structure of the mound. The drawing team finalised the sections and created diagrams to highlight the circulation, access and zoning for the playground.
We updated the Bluebell Green masterplan based on Friends of Chapel Street Park's feedback on Saturday morning. The main changes are the addition of organic shaped low beds to the south of the site, and a new location for the willow structures, second set of moguls, accessible WC and fire pit.
The seventh day of MSA Live looked to develop digital outputs that would be displayed in the physical hoarding of Homebaked CLT. Illustrated is some working in progress ideas that will be incorporated into the hoarding in a clear and coherent manner.
In the morning we spent an hour and a half brainstorming ideas for the landscape proposal. We worked as a team before coming up with the perfect solution and developing it further.
Today we have explored a variety of roof structures shown above. This afternoon we developed one design to finalise the structure. We are really happy with how the project is shaping, with final touches of facade designs to focus on tomorrow.
We have been in contact with the team at MUD who are really excited about the design, we will involve them with the final design decisions tomorrow, ready to finalise the design and create our final outputs for the MSA Live action weeks!
Nearing the end of our MSA live action weeks, we dedicated today to finalising our design. This morning We developed our roof design ideas by sketching and using CAD to visualise what all the ideas would look like.
This afternoon we developed one idea, applied it to our design, finalising the proposed structure.
The groups continued the work from the previous session: creating visualizations, sketches and iterative testing of digital model prototypes. A costing exercise was also conducted to propose design ideas at different price points to the collaborator. Additionally, the team also started work on the final publication and finalised the layout.
Today the design teams were busy producing their final drawings for Friday. Each member continued with their self-assigned roles within their team. Whilst some were busy rendering their plans, others were busy rendering their perspective views. Throughout the day the team leaders provided 1:1 tutorials on Illustrator, Photoshop and Twin Motion – requests made by the students wanting to learn new skills. As the students learned the new programmes, they used these programmes to also test their sketched ideas, further refining their projects.
Join us on Friday at 17:00, where we are in Chorlton exhibiting our work on 15-minute neighbourhoods and how this framework can be applied to the benefit of Chorlton.
Today we began by finalising our understanding of the 15-minute neighbourhood and how this framework for analysis can apply to Chorlton. Above is a diagram investigating Ecology in Chorlton. Participation is key to allowing the city to grow under the influence of the residents. Chorlton has a robust municipal agenda with various associations working within Chorlton to make it a better place. This engagement is key to Chorlton’s development.
Today we began by finalising our understanding of the 15-minute neighbourhood and how this framework for analysis can apply to Chorlton. Above is a diagram investigating Ecology in Chorlton. Ecology is essential to promoting a healthier lifestyle. However, being an example of a suburban area, green spaces are separated by large housing estates. By deploying a policy of green corridors, greenery and wildlife can spread throughout Chorlton.
Today we began by finalising our understanding of the 15-minute neighbourhood and how this framework for analysis can apply to Chorlton. Above is a diagram investigating Proximity in Chorlton. 15-minute neighbourhoods require various services to be readily available to the residents. The diagram above shows the type of establishments in the centre of Chorlton. Chorlton is dominated by a strong food and drink industry.
Today we began by finalising our understanding of the 15-minute neighbourhood and how this framework for analysis can apply to Chorlton. Above is a diagram investigating density in Chorlton. 15 minute neighbourhoods require various housing densities to accommodate people at different stages of their life i.e., from raising a family to moving out for the first time. Our rnalysis shows that Chorlton consists mainly of terrace and semi-detached housing. This shows that development may be needed to encourage a more diverse population in Chorlton.
DAY _5: Complete
A little rain did not stop us this time as we ventured as a group into Chorlton. This helped ground the work we have been doing this week, as well as seeing the site where we are planning interventions. Alan, as our tour guide, also provided a different perspective to give us a glimpse into the mindset of residents and workers within Chorlton.