Creative Theories: Thinking and Making

Below is my final explorative drawing; I have worked into my last explorative drawing and added my floor plans and overlaid my sectional model with the LiDAR scans. I am very pleased with how this has turned out and I believe that it captures the atmosphere and character of the manor well and communicates my proposal for Wymering Manor well.  I have thoroughly enjoyed this module, I have enjoyed experimenting with different forms of model making, different ways of thinking, and being able to play and create. I look forward to the exhibition and I hope that others like my proposal. 

Following on from my adjacency diagram, I have started developing a potential plan; I believe that a plan similar to this would be best as it has good circulation throughout the manor, it also allows for groups of people to stop and look at different artefacts in different rooms at a time. 

 Below is my explorative drawing; After doing my research into unconventional exhibitions and adaptive reuse, I decided to use a combination of LiDAR scans, plans and a photo of my sectional model within my explorative drawing. I decided to continue the idea of familiarity and nostalgia in my drawing, I have done this by layering and combining different LiDAR scans to form a messy collage of views within the manor; mostly views of the great hall to further induce these feelings as my sectional model is of the great hall. I decided to layer the LiDAR scans in this 'messy' way to represent the complexity, character, and history of the manor. 

Following on from my research, my proposal for Wymering Manor is to take a similar route as the 14 Henrietta Street Museum ; restoring, protecting, and adapting the manor into a museum.  Reflecting on my demographic research, adapting Wymering Manor into a museum is the best choice as the manor is located in a significantly uneducated and unemployed area. This gives the local community job opportunities and access to local history and self education. Additionally, this will bring the community together and will be a new heritage attraction that the local community can be proud of. The manor is located in the middle of a large area of housing, which has very few attractions or shops. From this, installing a café within the museum will increase popularity, visitors, and additional job opportunities.  The manor will need extensive work to make it structurally safe; support beams will need to be installed, especially in the drawing room, dining room, queens room, loft and most of ...

After doing research, I have found a few adaptive reuse buildings that inspire me; Moritzburg Museum Extension , Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos The Moritzburg museum extension was designed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos in 2008, located in Halle, Germany. The museums history has been reflected in the many changes it has undergone over the years. But despite these changes, the building keeps to its original structure and architectural features within and around the museum extension. The museum inspired me with the application of new modern architectural design to the historic building, creating a clear 'territory' between the two, as well as presenting the historic building as its own exhibition, ultimately treating the historical building with respect while still being able to modernise it.  Photos and information obtained from;  www.archdaily.com The Jaffa Hotel, John Pawson Designer John Pawson restored and renovated the School of the Sisterhood of Saint Joseph convent, and ...

 Below is a copy of my poster of my artefact: Todays presentations went well and I received very helpful feedback; Look into Bricolage  Redundancy of functions – Broken / not wanted  Thinking about theatrical interaction with Wymering – stage sets / installations in the rooms – fragmentations/parts of the manor/historical? – response to ruination and how it is.  Sarah Sze, ruined site work - the last garden. See Adhocism Bricolage is the construction or creation of a piece of work from a diverse range of objects or materials that happen to be available, or a work constructed using mixed media. Its applied in an art context to artists who use a diverse range of non-traditional art materials. This approach became popular in the early twentieth century when resources were scarce, and aspects of surrealism, dada and cubism have a bricolage character. ( 1 ) I believe that my artefact is a strong example of bricolage and adhocism. Sarah Sze's The Last Garden is a very ins...

Below are some better quality photos I have taken of my artefact, S.A.H.R. ;

I am very pleased to present my finished artefact; S.A.H.R. (Scenography, Architecture, History, Representation).  Inspired by Nam June Paik, S.A.H.R. is a combination of technology and architecture in the form of a stage set, presenting Wymering Manor as a stage. S.A.H.R. focuses on layering and creating depth, producing a layered performance space with the elements of the TV and Wymering Manor. Similar to Sarah Sze, S.A.H.R. is made mainly from an object (a TV) that is designed for human scale, producing a sense of familiarity and nostalgia. These senses are increased for those who have visited the manor, as some of the layering have design elements from the manor and some memorable parts of the manor presented in an artistic or architectural way. Like the Collective Network City Model, S.A.H.R. has a clear distinction between the materials used, with this artefact I challenged myself to reuse as much of the TV as possible before adding new materials to it, totalling at three dif...

For the next stage of our project, we are starting to develop a poster of our artefact which includes; Photos of our artefact 300 words on our artefact Start considering a title for our artefact Three artists/ architects that we are inspired by Below are some designers that I am inspired by: Nam June Paik Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. His method of combining art and technology (in terms of physical technology) is very inspiring as they are very diverse, I also like that his work can be interpreted in different ways, as well as that is it an unconventional way to use technology.  Photos and information obtained from; www.cobosocial.com news.artnet.com The Collective Network City Model; Roger Kemp, Raphael Kilpatrick & Anthony Fryatt The Collective Network City Model is a collaborative model of an imagined city / urban condition constructed by 20 students. I like the clear 'territori...

Once printing the plans and elevations of Wymering Manor in scale 1:20, I found that if I made my model of the manor in this scale it would not fit into the set space within the artefact, so I decided to work in scale 1:50 instead. I decided to use Balsa wood as it was cheap, I had an abundance of it, as well as it was the right colour wood I wanted to use as it creates a contrast between the model and the rest of the artefact. I started off by drawing the floor plans of the manor on cardboard and started assembling each floor individually, then adding a 'tech' element - a part of the TV - into each of the rooms, and then gluing the three floors together, bringing the sectional model together as a whole.  Below are photos of ground and first floor of the manor before I glued them together; I really enjoyed making the manor in this scale as it allowed me to spend more time in making smaller details of the manor that I initially overlooked; I also found that working from the floo...

Today on a sheet of perspex, I reflected my experience and interpretation of Wymering Manor using concrete poetry and paintings of parts of the manor that were most memorable to me. On the perspex I included; different angles of the stairs, the loft roof beams, the table and fireplace from the grand hall, different views of the exterior of the manor, lots of shrubbery and greenery, and concrete poetry.  I started by drawing my design with a permanent marker and then using acrylic paint, I decided to only partially paint the drawings as the perspex will be situated in front of the 'backdrop' that I have made, this is so the backdrop is still visible whilst having a design element in front of it, this also adds more layers to my 'set'. Also, I conscientiously painted particular parts as they were the most memorable elements in the manor; the green carpets on the stairs, the table in the grand hall, the roof of the manor, the shrubbery growing on the manor grounds, the dar...