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

Third Design Idea


From the image above we made a model.  The idea progressed on from previous ideas and it was to play with natural light.  It was a simple idea with a simple concept.  We would make a large scale camera which was portable and place it in-front of significant buildings around Belfast and within the camera we would display information on the building regarding its history, construction, owner, activities within the building and so on.  The idea was that a tourist or member of the general public would enter the installation and experience the sites of Belfast from a different and interesting angle...worthy of taking a picture!

We then developed on from this to try and change the persons perception of the area and install different thickness of sheets that would leave the image bulged, dented, twirled or squeezed. We then proceeded and experiment with different thickness' and shapes of lenses.

The two pictures shown above show the final model for IDEA 3, after further discussion with our internal group and peers we conclude that the idea was again just an enlargement of something that has already been designed and at the end of the day was just a large box with a looking hole. But we liked the idea of the history of photography and its graduation on from the last design which was experimenting with light.

We evaluated that this idea needed to be more interactive, it needed to be portable and of greater interest. We came up with IDEA 4 quite quickly after IDEA 3.

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