Matt: Blue Mood Board and Design Precedents.

Mood Board:


Design Precedents:

Remi: Purple moodmap and precedents

Marie-Therese: Things to be done

The presentation has 3 parts:

• Examination
• Diagnosis
• Treatment

We talked about this last week with Tom which you may remember i.e. Urban doctors or some such term was used. If we look out the original ppt then we could say the examination is more or less done and needs tidying up. The diagnosis is also within those realms. The weak point is the treatment (NHS cuts I suppose…I digress). This really needs to be defined otherwise the whole thing falls apart. So this is what we will be concentrating on until Friday. Also I think we need not only to explain what we propose but also specifically why we are proposing it.

What do we need to do?

Task 1: Define and illustrate the routes through mood-board pics of places, planting types, materials, colours interms of hues etc, and location in site; also requ. Source and destination. Precedents of some projects which have similarities

We had originally 3 primary routes corresponding to the 3 primary colours. We got a bit carried away on Saturday and started defining purple routes and so on. I think this primary roots idea is a strong one and we should go with that otherwise we are in danger of diluting the concept. Don’t worry for those of you who have done mood boards for purple or orange routes we can use this this in the corrsponding zones so the work is not lost or wasted. The difference between a route and a zone (meeting or crossing place) is mainly academic.

NB Tom talked about using buildings to launch the routes. In some caes this is obvious The Tate for the blue route and the Nat.Theatre for the yellow root but I am open for suggestions

Task 2: Define and illustrate the places where the routes intersect. Here again we require mood boards (planting, materials, surface characteristics, curved or edgey) and locations within site. Precedents are also required here (See above). Additionally, we would need some sort of model for each of the nodal points. More specifically, for the green, purple, orange places. Maybe a photo montage would do for the moment; a sort of digital model.

Mind Maps

We produced a mind map for each colour place/route:

Design Code

We decided on themes for each of the routes/places. Each theme is related to the production or consumption of art:

Red: 'SPECTACLE'
Blue: 'CONTEMPLATION'
Yellow: 'INTELLECT'
Purple: 'PRODUCTION'
Orange: 'DISCOURSE'

These themes are elaborated upon in the design code:

Following site meeting, I think we are doing Ok now.
I am setting to work on the red route and will have a quick crack at the orange if time permits.
I think the mood board describes the red route quite well - it does not need much more designing other than some plans/sections to show reduction in width and pedestrian priority improved. I will attach tehse later. Have a look at the map and see what you think - I basically drew up what we discussed on site so it should be pretty much there in terms of framework and finalisation of routes, you may want to tweak the routes though.

Site visit

We had a very productive site visit/workshop today. Thanks for that group!






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