Design Crit

This video is something I put together to show some of the ideas I have for the development of my project. I have been creating 3D pieces that reference the shapes from the maps of London and the details of the architecture. Playing with altering scale, enlarging small architectural details and shrinking map segments so that they fit onto the body. I was interested in creating multifunctional pieces that fit within the area of nomadic architecture, forms that alter the space around the body.

However several points that were raised in my crit made me reassess my work up to now on this project. I have jumped ahead of myself trying to make to finished a concept that has moved too quickly from samples to pieces. Its always interesting when people respond to the samples you least expect them to. For example the sample below is a 3D piece constructed directly from the shapes from an antique map of London. I am interested in the idea of how a 2 dimensional diagram such as a map describes something 3 dimensional.




Some of my most important research came from a book called; "Bodyline; The End of Our Meta-Mechanical Bodies" published by the AA School of Architecture. It is a collection of architectural students work that responds to the body, one unit brief asks them to start with traditional pattern blocks as their starting inspiration;
"...the lines and developed curves of flat pattern notation, a constructional method that 'collapses' and reorganises the three dimensions of the body into two, and a fictional narrative about function, in lieu of the traditional architectural brief."
(George L. Legendre, Bodyline: The End of our Meta-Mechanical Bodies, England, AA Architectural Association, 2006, pg 39)


Tiny Deaths
Carolin Hinne

“Tiny Deaths… is deeper than a pattern sheet and shallower than a garment.”
(George L. Legendre, Bodyline: The End of our Meta-Mechanical Bodies, England, AA Architectural Association, 2006, pg 8)


I am fascinated by the way that when I stitched the flat 2 dimensional pieces together they became 3 dimensional, it is interesting the relationship between the 2 dimensional and the three dimensional and how one is intrinsically linked to the other.