Architecture A4

Group A4:
Aimee McAvoy, Mark Glover, Diarmuid Porter, Darragh Sherry, Sean Heffernan & Callum Black

Project Title:
P2 Intervention of Making

Introduction to the Project:
We have been asked to make a meaningful intervention that improves the experence of a selected activity space.

The last project we carried out was in Nick's Warehouse in Hill Street, which is situated in the Cathedral Quarter of Belfast. This is an award winning restaurant which is opened for business throughout the day and evening. The building was formally a bond store for the famous "Bushmills" whiskey company. It then became a derelect pigeon loft before being transformed into one of Belfast's most popular restaurants.

After completing P1 assignment we were of the realisation that we would have to limit our intrusion into the daily activities within Nick's Warehouse. Therefore we decided to transfer our P2 assignment to an outdoor alternative location.

Sunday, 17 October 2010

Sense of Belfast

Following on from our comprehensive study of Nick’s Warehouse in Project One we thought that for our second project, ‘a meaningful intervention that improves the experience of a selected activity space’, it would be best if we selected a different location within the Cathedral Quarter. We wanted to experience a space that wasn’t contained within four walls.  We wanted a space that had no limits.

Project Two is named ‘Intervention of Making’.  From this title our group knew that the designs had be be primarily creative, inventive and positively contribute to the quality of the existing  space we would later choose.

The brief asked us to create a product which was a real size installation. As a group we decided that this product had to be interactive, attractive and the key idea behind out product was to change the person’s perception of the area... How were we going to do this? We needed ideas.

ANALYSIS OF ACTIVITIES
In order to give us an insight into who uses the facility of St. Anne's Square, we decided to carry out an analysis of the activities carried out in the area.  This involved going down to the location and monitoring the activities available and the types of people who frequent the area.  We recorded our information on a chart. 

*ADD IN ANALYSIS SHEET

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