A Moment: Individual Rehearsal Spaces

After coming together as a group following the Mid-Semester Crit and collectively reflecting on the feedback we were given, we began independently designing key 'moments' within our project. I was interested in exploring the individual rehearsal spaces, as these are often not considered in Performing Arts Centres for disciplines other than music. This concept is … Continue reading A Moment: Individual Rehearsal Spaces →

Mid-Semester Crit [Presented Scheme]

A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre.Peter Brook Introduction Our brief poses the question: can boredom and ‘optimal’ anxiety be effectively harnessed within a learning space for physical expression? With the amount of stimulus in present day … Continue reading Mid-Semester Crit [Presented Scheme] →

Sectional Primer

As an introduction to sectional drawing for this course, we were asked to bring in some existing sections which sparked our interest. We then discussed the information communicated in different drawings, and how section drawing style differs for conceptual and resolved designs. The purpose of a section strongly impacts the style chosen for the drawing: … Continue reading Sectional Primer →

Stone Massing Concepts [Group work]

After gathering together our initial thoughts as a group, we needed to explore our various ideas in greater depth. To do this, we made massing models using the stones we collected (see them sorted into a draft taxonomy here). This was a way of not only using abstract masses to generally organise different spaces, but … Continue reading Stone Massing Concepts [Group work] →

Taxonomy of Stoniness [Attempt 1]

The above booklet contains my group's initial attempt at a 'Taxonomy of Stoniness' - that is, a systematic categorisation of the rocks we had all collected. This had to be done in a way that was useful to our project. We first attempted to sort the rocks by their geological type - igneous, sedimentary or … Continue reading Taxonomy of Stoniness [Attempt 1] →

Initial Ideas (Part 2): Coming Together as a Group

Following on from the work completed individually, my group met to discuss our initial responses to the brief. Our ideas melded surprisingly well: there were several conceptual similarities between our ideas in terms of how we approached the anxiety/boredom theme of the brief, and each person had new details to add. The precedents that we … Continue reading Initial Ideas (Part 2): Coming Together as a Group →

Two Precedents

Looking at precedents is a key part of the architectural design process. While particularly crucial for us as students, I imagine that the importance of this process continues into practice, and is relevant for all types of 'making'. It is invaluable to see how ideas similar to your own can be executed in reality, and … Continue reading Two Precedents →

A Basic Colloquial Guide to Four Theatre Theorists

“Emptiness was a starting point, not for its own sake, but to help to discover each time what was really essential to support the richness of the actor’s words and presence.”Peter Brook Having the most experience in theatre out of my group, both in a practical and academic sense, I put together a sort of … Continue reading A Basic Colloquial Guide to Four Theatre Theorists →

Initial Ideas

Having selected our brief and established our group, we individually worked on relaying our initial ideas onto paper. This was an important step, as we could sort through and consider our own thoughts first (and make these visible) without becoming muddled in an explosion of ideas in group discussion. This also made it easier to … Continue reading Initial Ideas →