CROSS SCHOOL COURSE

‘Watching’ T.V.

This project explores human interaction with the immediate environment and objects within this environment while undergoing a basic daily ritual, watching TV, over time. It is not just about what you see and hear via the box on the wall, but about the other physical and non-physical phenomena that occur simultaneously

- the coldness of the leather sofa you’re sitting or laying on, the softness of the blanket that is draped on the sofa, the light coming through the window that slightly disrupts your gaze, the smell of freshly delivered pizza, the sound of flatmates opening the kitchen door –

all contribute to the overall experience of the activity.

TERROIREvery place, site or location has a spirit that it exudes (those unique characteristics that differentiate your favourite restaurant from the same restaurant brand in a different location). This Coffee shop on Great Western Road in Glasgow has a homely feel which could be partly be accredited to its small size, but is definitely boosted by certain props that have been included in the space, such as the blankets and pillows that are used unsparingly. The placement of extra seating on the sidewalk, with a clear view (through the big glass window) into the shop from this spot, creates a continuous link between the intimate interior space and the hustle and bustle of the outside world. Cracked glass, scratched doors, rusty signs, etc. age the site, building an imagination of a family business that has been passed through generations-the terroir of the place.

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IN-AND-OUT CINEMA

In-and-out cinema is an intervention that houses the activity I recorded in the first project (Watching TV), proposed to be on the same site as the previous project (The coffee shop on Great Western Road). The result is a miniature cinema consisting of rooms in which short videos are projected, providing a novel way of passing time while the customer enjoys their coffee. The intimacy of the coffee shop is replicated in the cinema as small cells afford privacy as opposed to one big cinema. The structure is elevated above the sidewalk to avoid obstructing traffic. Access to the cinema is via a lift that works based on the principles of electromagnetism. The lift is fitted with a sofa and a table with cup holders, so the customer sits and places their items on the table, allowing safe transport with hot drinks. The lift fits tightly into the cell like a piece of a puzzle, shutting out light, enhancing the cinema effect.

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ELEVATION SECTION X-X

HOW THE LIFT WORKS:

Levitation and movement results from consistent attraction and repulsion occurs between the magnents attached to the back of the lift and the maganets stacked in the spine of the elevatpr shaft, depending on the relative position of the lift at any given time.

HOPEInspiration for this project came from a recent kidnapping of over 250 girls from their school in Chibok, a village in my home country Nigeria. This is a proposal for a building that represents the pain experienced by this community, and the hope of finding the girls that is at the heart of the nation.

The design that depicts ‘hope’ as an atmosphere enclosed within a 7.5m cubic solid, taking inspiration from the idiom “there is always light at the end of a tunnel”. The entrance is through an opening the size of a standard door, on the eastern façade. One is met with a very dark, moody corridor. Light from the more lit portion of the space spills over a dwarf wall directly opposite the entrance, revealing the rough limestone wall. The instinct is for the person to touch the walls, and use them as a guide down the corridor. Light coming through a small opening on the south wall illuminates the corridor behind the dwarf wall. As the person moves through this corridor, the walls become smoother, and the light becomes brighter. As one exits through the floor to ceiling opening on the west side, and there is no external wall here, the individual steps out unto a platform that receives uninterrupted light.

AXONOMETRIC

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PLASTER MODEL PHOTOGRAPHS

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WEST ELEVATION SOUTH ELEVATION

OPENINGThis series of drawings are detail drawings of the window opening in the previous project, proposing that the concept be constructed using modular masonry materials.

UV CENTRALThis project began as a study into the correlation between the varying classes of vegetation around the site (Bowling, Scotland), and the corresponding levels of light intensity in each studied area. I then invented a proposed installation of glass boxes of solar beads (beads that intensify in colour with increasing levels of ultra violet light) that would reveal these varying levels of light intensity across the site. This installation formed the basis of the architectural programme. The building serves as a ‘recreation centre’ where individuals play around with different ways of manipulating the levels of light intensity within a space to create varied patterns of colours in the beads.

Increasing light intensity in foot-candles

Building placed on the beach as it possesses the greatest level of light intensity on the site, as required for the activity

SECTION THROUGH SITE SHOWING CHANGES IN LIGHT INTENSITY MEASURED IN FOOT CANDLES

PHOTOGRAPH OF SITE MODEL TESTING PROPOSAL FOR AN INTERVENTION TO REVEAL THE DIFFERING LEVELS OF LIGHT INTENSITY ACROSS THE SITE, USING SOLAR BEADS

HOW THE ACTIVITY WORKS:

Glass box containing solar beads placed directly opposite a shelf of windows

Section and Front View of a grid made of individual window openings

Light coming in through windows

Each window opening contains a glass box. These boxes are filled with varying materials, so that each opening allows a different inten-sity of light through it.

The activity involves the visitor swapping the positions of the glass boxes, causing changes in the pattern of light that hits the box of solar beads. This will in turn create different abstract designs within the box due to the variation in the colour of the beads.

VARITION IN COLOUR OF BEADS DUE TO CHANGES IN UV INTENSITY

Varying the infills between the glass panels alters the qaulity and intensity of light that comes through the opening

VARIOUS MATERIAL INFILLS

DESIGN PERMUTATIONS FOR THE SEPERATION OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SPACES WHERE THE ACTIVITY OCCURS

Private Space

Public Space

CROSS SECTION X-X

CHANGES TO DRAWINGS:

Section line X-X moved so as not to cut through external wall. This creates a more open drawing in terms of how the approach towards the entrance is viewed

Include metal device that holds wires together in tension.Don’t draw what is below ground

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CONCEPT VISUALISATION OF THIS SPACE

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

ALTERED FLOOR PLAN

ROOF PLAN IN THIS AREA

ROOF PLAN IN THIS AREA

PROBLEMS:HIERACHY OF SPACES:Proposed cubicles for activity were too small, and less important spaces like toilets and storage room took up majority of the entire building.

SOLUTION:Cubicle sizes increased; Toilets replaced with spaces which provide alternative ways in which the client can interact with this relationship between changes in light intensity and its effect on solar beads.

--Fixed holes in ceiling

--Direction & intensity of light changes as the sun moves during the day

--Surrounding walls and floor area are covered with solar beads, provid-ing constantly changing patterns in the beads as the light moves through the space

PHOTOGRAPHS OF EDUARDO CHILLIDIA’S MOUNT TINDAYA WHERE INSPIRATION WAS GOTTEN

Roof openings have shutters which are opened and closed using buttons that are controlled by the visitor. This is an alternative way in which the visitor can interact with the building by manipulating the intensities of light which are let into the space, varying the colour patterns in the beads which cover the walls and floor in that space.

Direction and intesity of light also changes as the sun moves during the day.

Space added to cubicles in design alteration

Initial space alloted to activity in previous design