Week 7 : An Analogue Series

This task asks students to reconsider and extend upon the speculative drawings of task 03 ‘a room for the transformative body’ through constructing an analogue model. Each group is to construct an operable model. Consider the elements in your space that move or shift, open or close, expand or contract, and how these may best be modelled in order to diagram this movement. The model will infact serve as a diagram, illustrating the operative nature of the folie. Saying this, it is still important to consider the materiality of your folie as this will inform how your particular element moves, how it hinges, pivots, slides, or folds. Think carefully about how to construct the model. This is not a maquette. Further consider the operable elements in relation to the static elements in your folie and

the materials and/or techniques that speak to these qualities. The folie as a whole is to be modelled.

Students are not to simply replicate the design that has been conceived in 2D, rather the task is to be utilised to progress the scheme and reveal relationships and qualities previously undiscovered or concealed. This model is to be documented through a series of photographs that illustrates how the space changes. The photographs are to be presented in sequential order on a A3 sheet.

 

 to bring for wk07

 

• model making material [this can be a range of media; plaster, various types of cardboard, timber, paper, nylon/stocking material, resin, florist foam, perspex, string etc]

*this is an exploratory exercise that requires careful consideration of the qualities that you want to communicate and thus selecting the medium accordingly [keep in mind the course theme of ‘beyond representation’]

 

 requirements

 

 1 x 1:50 speculative model

 

 

Note that the models are to be ‘speculative’, they are to suggest what the space would be like to inhabit. This exercise is to be completed for the interim presentation and both photographs and the physical model is to be brought in.