My Thrashold, was about breaking the barrier between the interior studio space and the exterior courtyard space. The courtyard in its original design was for outdoor project work like the bus shelter which resides there. It was become a space used for lunch and other activities which in itself adds to the culture of NICAI. I always thought it was a shame how our studio space is so walled off and isolated from this space and the only connection is a hidden door in a niche on the interior.
I thought of breaking the barrier between the courtyard and studio but also between the many levels representing the hierarchy of students and staff also. To do this I literally ripped open the building. Like a slice of cake I carved out one "familiar" studio bay and as a stack of tower blocks they come tumbling out of the building in the action the breaking down of this hierarchy and barrier.
The space where the section originally was is left void so the many levels of the building are joined and the heavily guarded studio is opened to the outside.
There are many parts of my design i wished i could of resolved further such as making the different modules left in the courtyard into inhabitable spaces with meaning or purpose and also the working out how the void in the building would work in real life..... torn open buildings with interiors exposed to the outside aren't very sort after.....i think.....
Hey Meng,
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you addressed the brief for this project in such a bold way. With thoughts to how removing a studio bay from the bottom would effect those directly above it, it gives an impression that this was quite well thought out.
However I thought it was disapointing that none of your images show the effect on the rest of the building. If possible maybe you could look into how people would enter these "broken" studio bays from the different levels of the NICAI building.
Since I talked to you yesterday and you said its more useful when people are critical, not sure where your other A3 sheet is but maybe you could try adding more detail, images or a little bit of colour to you page. Oh and potentially you could look at creating some kind of impact marks into the ground to really emphasize how the bay has fallin out of the building.
Overall I think the idea and development is there and in person you explained it really convincingly but at the moment your image isn't portraying how strong your idea is.
Hope this helps,
Hannah