Week 5

After looking at some precedents, we drew on images of the side of the building (by the staff entrance).

We used line as a link to sheet music.

Precedents


Developments (drawing)


Developments (computer generated)

Week 4

We noticed the side of the building looked like a '1,' from there we developed a vinyl sticker  and a scale model and tested the arrangement of a 1 on the wall. This links to Te Are Hihiko - creating consistency through the campus and linking to Massey. By having the giant '1' on this wall we believe it will act as a guide from the staff entrance, to the main student entrance.

Week 3

Notes

• Event - opening
• Legibility of the yellow - to separate from the staff area
• Draw people to the entrance - floor art may not be seen as a whole (initial concept)
• Talk to people
• Event nights are held here - concert so how easily can people who parent's students (outside of the university) find their way with our proposed idea

Other Groups

Vinyl stickers - ground

1 looks like an arrow - common realisation

Doctorine - arrows turned into 1's

Colour - anyone using red? Yellow (garage door in the kitchen area upstairs) and green were used bye other groups

Using the ground - grounds the building

Name and colour - can we change it? - Change the colour to differentiate from the staff space

3 entrances - two side doors lead to stairs - are they going to be used more than the interior?

Blue on the building - roadside

Could we do something that isn't permanent - a map for first years?

Initial Concepts

• Legibility of the yellow - to separate from the staff area
• Draw people to the entrance 
• 1 looks like an arrow

Site analysis images

Precedents - Te Ara Hihiko, block 12

Block 1, current entrance. We noticed the side of block 1 looks like a 1

Week Two

The first briefs are related to Massey University's Block 1 and Wairepo Lagoon.

Guest Lecture - Whairepo Lagoon

• Help people become more aware of the name and its meaning (without creating a sign)
• Develop a means to mark and direct significant places on the waterfront
• Help bring the name 'Whairepo' into the everyday
• Te Reo Maori - increase the use of the language
• Temporary factor - chalk stencils + interactive (elements got children involved)

This project needs to inform a wider palette of story telling and naming along the waterfront that includes:

• Place making, culture, storytelling (create a narrative)
• It may be permanent, it may be there for an hour, a day, it make come and go at random
• Maintaining the minimal, commercial signage that the Wellington Waterfront currently features

Guest Lecture - Block 1 Massey University

• Built in 1970's
• Financial reasons meant the original designs for the main entrance of Block 1 could not happen
• Current entrance isn't architecturally framed
• Separate entrances for staff space and main entrance for block 1 entrance
• Infrastructure, landscape and comfort - could make campus more welcoming
• Maori names - bilingual 
• Signage inside are similar to block 12
• Staff space - Te Where Pukaka
• School of Music and Creative Media - Te Rewa O Puanga

Universities didn't used to encourage students to stay on campus - so the architecture only catered for lectures and tutorials - were expected to go home for study. Now universities are changing to accommodate for better way finding and the identification of buildings and comfort in terms of spaces for study. What they want:

• Putting Block 1 on the map
• Way showing system for inside is in development to bring together elements from Te Where Pukaka and Te Are Hihiko (Block 12)
• Under utilised entry way - link the building to the wider campus
• Client - students (we are closer to the people engaging with this space)

In class exercise

We were put into groups and assigned one of the two briefs. I was assigned to Block 1 in a group of four. We started to think about:

• How to assess the site - go there, take photos, ask people who use the space, observe people in the space
• What info we need to collect - how people access the building, who accesses the building (what do they want to know), how people interact with the building, foot traffic, where the foot traffic is, architecture of the building, how the school of music and CMP functions, measurements
• The problem - people walk passed the entrance  don't realise it's an entrance, people walk into the staff space, people don't realise it's part of Massey Campus or that it's the Music and Creative Media Production building, the building is old and unappealing
• The good precedents - Block 12 - big, orange stencil letterforms 

Ideas:

• Use different materials and colours - to tell a different story
• Treating the building as an instrument
• Relationship between lighting and sound (music)
• Inside Block 1 - Doctorin font is being used in red
• Budget? Lack of so be realistic
• May - open to public so be realistic 

Week 1

Throughout this elective the entire class will be working as a collective on a variety of open briefs. The outcomes can be, but are not limited to, way-finding systems, a performance, place-making, and sculpture. It can create identity in a space. Icons and graphics can still be considered type and can bee used to communicate universally.

We were put into groups and chose a letter to make in large scale out of cardboard:

Before the next class we put our 'M' in a series of situations and environments to tell a narrative:

'M' playing with lighting and shadow - due to the non block nature
of our shape

'M' as an end table 

'M' in a skip at the landfill - emphasises how crap it - looks like it's
in jail

After taking the 'M' to the landfill we took it to Owhiro
Bay and threw it into the water...

It split in half as we removed it from the water so we
placed it on the road...

And ran over it with a car.