I have been helping N finish the drawings for his assignment. The report is a Building Survey Inline with English Heritage Standards and Practise Level 3, which in drawing terms requires scale 2D plans and elevations. My task was to scan and do the final edits to the drawings and put them into a presentable format.
I thought the drawing were really nice and I played around with them – taking them clumsily into Photoshop to create a 3D likeness. I loved the results with the contrasting 2d detail and 3d structural qualities. I thought that this represented something similar to the flat imagery in 1W23 and would make an interesting approach to creating Faux Interiors, really exaggerating the realities.
I could design and draw up the interior of an imaginary ’stately home’ (or other interior) and create a web site with hot spots presenting it like a info site which would open into my research and final pieces of work. I really like the raw drawn look.
I’m considering devoting the next 3 weeks to software learning – web and possibly ArchiCAD as I think t hat this could really benefit my learning and project solutions.
CONTEXTUALISATION – RESEARCH – PROTOTYPE
This weeks chat was very useful and clear. Jonathon outlined the next 30 week of the course and what is required of us. I will really need to discipline myself to Blog everything I do and think about. I have many notebooks and images which are not represented on my blog and of course what is not there, will not be seen.
I am quite looking forward to developing my ideas and also adapting my approaches hopefully to new software. The two assignments which will be required will also be a healthy challenge and if I work continuously should not be a problem for content.
I guess having spent last week working on a very vocational project, I’ve been reassessing the direction my work is going in and questioning what I will take away form this MA. I think it’s time I learnt how to build websites and started adding to my skill set.
I’ve downloaded the 30day trial of Adobe Go Live. I figured I would be more inspired to start by learning software that was design based before I attempt to learn a scripting language – which seems very daunting at the moment.
I’ve proudly worked my way through the tutorials and have covered – Objects-Creating Pages- Text -Background -Frames -Scrolls -Tables -CSS -Templates -Stationary Patterns and links.
My pages even look like a website. This may not seem much anyone who may read this who can build websites already, but it’s a big leap for me. I’m already considering ways to incorporate this into my project. Hopefully we’ll have a working web page by next year!
SECOND LIFE
In the chat this week we discsssed the second life conference in June. After a bit of technical stress I finally got it up and running and have a nice new Second Life name. However I still need to master moving her about.
I’ve not had the most constructive week in terms of my course-work, however it has been an interesting week. I’ve been helping my ‘man’ measure a Chinese Shop House for a heritage assignment for his MA. We had to document and measure the whole building and draw it up. We also had to get in touch with the Penang Heritage Society to dig out old deeds, records and maps from the area and for the building.
The building itself ,12 Church Street, was built in 1890, so has past through various owners and tennants hands aswell as undergoing stages of renovation, the last of which reinstated it to UNESCO heritage standards. N has to document and assess all the transformations. It was a very enjoyable experience.
One of the stories we found out was about the temple directly across the street. It used to be the headquarters of the Chinese Secret Society. There is a well in the back yard, where in times of severe punishment, a person would be beheaded, their head, thrown down the well and then washed out to sea. Amazing History!
