PROJECT 6: MOVING & VIEWING- An Installation for Contemplation

Project 6 is my final project of term 1 and focuses on introducing us to human scale, the real site, perception, as well as presentation drawings and models.

SITE PLAN:

SEQUENTIAL SKETCHES:

Daytime presence

Night time presence

The Riverside Pod from the outside & inside, the words express how I hope the Pod will make people feel and the experiences I want people to get from visiting.

MOOD/CHARACTER BOARD:

Above is my Mood/ Character board which helped me to gain inspiration and form and a clear direction of how to develop my ideas further. I was intrigued by the structure of cells and honey comb and how they fit together and form such a strong structure. I then looked at the eden project where I gained a lot of inspiration and ideas as I wanted my pod to be made up of a similar material.

SECTIONS:

1:50

AXONOMETRICS:

1:100

MODEL PHOTOGRAPHS :

Below are a selection of my model photographs. I have placed my model into my site model showing how I propose to fit it into to my site. The scale of both my model and site model are 1:100.

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Project 5: Intervention Site Survey & Analysis

The aim of this task was to choose a location for a landscape intervention. My chosen site was Twinkle Park, Deptford, the surrounding residential area and the local community space/allotments. Below are a series of diagrams that have enabled me to analysis the site and take into consideration the existing features of the site and what suitable proposals to the site there could be. Existing Site Context Plan: Base Plan of my Site: Site Survey Overlay Plan: Strengths, Opportunities & Constraints of my site: Constraints of the Site Strengths of the Site Opportunities of the Site Mood Board- A few ideas and inspirations to help me visualise my proposals for the site.

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Illustrator Practice

Each week I spend two days working in a multidisciplinary practice, working alongside the landscape team gaining invaluable knowledge and skills on my journey to becoming a landscape architect. Today I focused on creating a constraints and opportunities diagram for a site in Croydon in which we are working on. Using illustrator I managed to create the two diagrams below: Opportunities Diagram: Constraints Diagram:

Emma Atkinson: Landscape Architect & Garden Designer

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