Friday, 6 April 2012
Technical Drawings
Its been pretty slow going working on the technical drawings. Had a mare with the hatching on CAD looks awful - thinking drawing by hand has a lot going for it.
A tip if you want a b/w pdf of your cad design and are working on coloured layers
go to File
page set up manager and select modify
opens up a dialogue box top left corner plot style table you can choose either monochrome or greyscale press ok
A tip if you want a b/w pdf of your cad design and are working on coloured layers
go to File
page set up manager and select modify
opens up a dialogue box top left corner plot style table you can choose either monochrome or greyscale press ok
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Paper vs Machine
Working on both from paper to cad at the moment, updating my main a1 with a3 supplements taped over my A1 scanned in with a scale. think the simpler route is to do by hand then you have something tangible and less problematic.
Seating
Difficulty in finding really nice seating that one can relax in - might try a hammock! Though contemplating a deckchair on a similar system to supermarket trollies or perhaps Boris' bikes...
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
business cards & headed paper
I got the inspiration for the business card while I was working out the contours and scaling of my site. I wanted to produce a card that would be associated with Landscape Architecture.
First hand drawn, then Autocad with curves before settling on the more angular style, rendered in photoshop for landscape elements, sky water and land.Then annotated it in inDesign and submitted it on PDF.
First hand drawn, then Autocad with curves before settling on the more angular style, rendered in photoshop for landscape elements, sky water and land.Then annotated it in inDesign and submitted it on PDF.
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| front and back images for the card |
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| headed paper image |
Friday, 24 February 2012
Dutch Engineering close to home
Fairview Park, Dublin. Built on reclaimed land designed by Dutch Engineers circa 1930s. In October 2011 Dublin experienced extreme flooding due to combination of high tides and a months rainfall in one day.
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Part Deux
So I am now into my 2nd Term and its been tough going so far. So taking a deep breath before I embark on the course commitments, I took time out and went to West 8 Event at Greenwich Uni. I wondered around in the unlit campus looking for the entrance to King William Court. Can we get some Landscape Architects on to this please....
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
the evolution of Wood Wharf
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| Wood Wharf 2 quickly bolted together raw unfinished work for crit feedback |
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| Wood Wharf 3 Hanging for final crit before competition submission |
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| Wood Wharf 4 A couple of tweaks incorporating feedback |
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Deadlines
Monday 5th was a crucial day it was a day that we were presenting our survey book and it was the day that I was also delivering my final garden history presentation on "Jellicoe and the Subconscious". It was lovely that when I faced the audience that I noticed a number of people, Julia, Phil and Nathalie were smiling back and it really helped. (thank you guys if you read this) Also reading some blogs that people who have stepped out of their comfort zone in presenting was very encouraging.
Friday 2nd I had my presentation on my dissertation and I had a meeting with Duncan Goodwin to get some more facts on Urban Heat Islands. I found him very approachable and informative and I felt it was a very productive meeting. Though I left with more work. I have a fascination with pollarded London Planes and have been taking pictures of them over the years. (okay buy me an anorak)
Wednesday 30th found out the my map was staying in.
Tuesday 29th Uploaded final group document
Monday 28 Nov Team Presentation. The presenters did a great job but the crit was tough. I have to say that I thoroughly admired Lissy for dealing with her bike breaking down at the blackwall tunnel, fixing it and then giving a brilliant presentation on Constructionism then going on and then delivering a presentation on precedents!
Sun 27th Nov Finished final section of group document worked till early hours and got less than four hours sleep. (bloody map! there has to be a better approach)
Friday 25 Nov submission of first draft on my dissertation.
So while I wait for the feedback on my dissertation, its time to catch up on the illustrative notebook and work on my Eastbourne masterplan. I really need to do more reading and sketching. I found it pretty tough going as I have been doing course work putting in long hours non-stop for weeks and I have given my very best. Though i am unsure if I can physically maintain this pace over a longer period. Its true I learnt a lot and my computer skills have moved on quite a bit in Sketchup, Photoshop and I can now add Indesign with a better understanding of graphic design composition...
Friday 2nd I had my presentation on my dissertation and I had a meeting with Duncan Goodwin to get some more facts on Urban Heat Islands. I found him very approachable and informative and I felt it was a very productive meeting. Though I left with more work. I have a fascination with pollarded London Planes and have been taking pictures of them over the years. (okay buy me an anorak)
Wednesday 30th found out the my map was staying in.
Tuesday 29th Uploaded final group document
Monday 28 Nov Team Presentation. The presenters did a great job but the crit was tough. I have to say that I thoroughly admired Lissy for dealing with her bike breaking down at the blackwall tunnel, fixing it and then giving a brilliant presentation on Constructionism then going on and then delivering a presentation on precedents!
Sun 27th Nov Finished final section of group document worked till early hours and got less than four hours sleep. (bloody map! there has to be a better approach)
Friday 25 Nov submission of first draft on my dissertation.
So while I wait for the feedback on my dissertation, its time to catch up on the illustrative notebook and work on my Eastbourne masterplan. I really need to do more reading and sketching. I found it pretty tough going as I have been doing course work putting in long hours non-stop for weeks and I have given my very best. Though i am unsure if I can physically maintain this pace over a longer period. Its true I learnt a lot and my computer skills have moved on quite a bit in Sketchup, Photoshop and I can now add Indesign with a better understanding of graphic design composition...
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
The holy grail: genius loci and a doner kebab!
The last couple of days have gone in a blur. Friday there was the presentation rehearsals. I did the timing. The team had done a lot of work compiling and consolidating vast amounts of data and still awaiting some sections.
Amongst all this we looked for the meaning of genius loci and listened to various pieces of music searching for the embodiment of Eastbourne.
I didnt leave uni till 9pm. I put heart and soul into my section. Thinking of what Jamie said about limiting time. I feel maybe I need a better balance. However it is difficult to restrict the time when you are learning. I have racked up stupid hours on both woodwharf and eastbourne.
Its no joke without a car, thankfully Nick dropped me to the high street. I didnt like Eltham Station one bit. The journey seem to take forever. I hadnt ate much, so faced with a long walk and no food in the fridge with only a chip shop enroute; I seriously contemplated a kebab....
Amongst all this we looked for the meaning of genius loci and listened to various pieces of music searching for the embodiment of Eastbourne.
I didnt leave uni till 9pm. I put heart and soul into my section. Thinking of what Jamie said about limiting time. I feel maybe I need a better balance. However it is difficult to restrict the time when you are learning. I have racked up stupid hours on both woodwharf and eastbourne.
Its no joke without a car, thankfully Nick dropped me to the high street. I didnt like Eltham Station one bit. The journey seem to take forever. I hadnt ate much, so faced with a long walk and no food in the fridge with only a chip shop enroute; I seriously contemplated a kebab....
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Eastbourne and everything else
Ok now to wrap up Eastbourne. I submitted in my piece of spatial character. I had a good chat with Paul who will be presenting this section, along with landscape character, materiality and flora and fauna. I had thought I was 80% finished with Eastbourne until I spoke to Paula. Ok so I need to do a bit more and it will push other stuff back further again.
Julia suggested that I introduce a bit of sketching into my portfolio. So I have started to make more of an effort in that direction
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Wood Wharf III - the final cut and many problems
So happy with my work I wanted to get RID of it before it took OVER my life.
My Problem
As I pulled together the project on quarkexpress I was restricted to my mac at home. My usendit for some reason wouldnt send and to cap it all my quarkexpress file exported to a whopping 240MB PDF format from a 10.4MB file!
I managed to download adobe acrobat on to my laptop. although after the adobe treatment it was reading as a smaller file on my computer but it was been treated by my email servers as if it was not compressed and was far too large to send. So now I thought I will have to hand deliver it
3 CDs later - they were so slow opening and reading the files I thought this is not going to work, whos going to wait 5-10mins when they have hundreds to view. I went back in again to quark and managed to compress it to a baby 6 MB without loss of quality.
So at 6.21 today I pressed the SEND button and said au revoir to Canary Wharf and bonjour to Eastbourne...
My Problem
As I pulled together the project on quarkexpress I was restricted to my mac at home. My usendit for some reason wouldnt send and to cap it all my quarkexpress file exported to a whopping 240MB PDF format from a 10.4MB file!
I managed to download adobe acrobat on to my laptop. although after the adobe treatment it was reading as a smaller file on my computer but it was been treated by my email servers as if it was not compressed and was far too large to send. So now I thought I will have to hand deliver it
3 CDs later - they were so slow opening and reading the files I thought this is not going to work, whos going to wait 5-10mins when they have hundreds to view. I went back in again to quark and managed to compress it to a baby 6 MB without loss of quality.
So at 6.21 today I pressed the SEND button and said au revoir to Canary Wharf and bonjour to Eastbourne...
Wood Wharf II - the last week
So I ended up putting in the hours to get it finished. I was quite pleased with the result and what I managed to do and actually I started to feel like a designer for the first time.
Although I had "finished" I went through my submission with Paula and had a list of tweaks. I had resolved there was no way I was going to do any touch up before submission that perhaps if time I could do before handing in my submission in next month. But....
...me being me couldnt let it go knowing that I could improve it so I spent today tweaking. Then once I had that done I spent hours trying to save it, reduce it and send it.
Although I had "finished" I went through my submission with Paula and had a list of tweaks. I had resolved there was no way I was going to do any touch up before submission that perhaps if time I could do before handing in my submission in next month. But....
...me being me couldnt let it go knowing that I could improve it so I spent today tweaking. Then once I had that done I spent hours trying to save it, reduce it and send it.
Wood Wharf I - the last 2 weeks
Last Monday I got pretty frustrated with Wood Wharf.
A technical brief for an ideas competition. I would have preferred to do something arty but felt I had to adhere to the brief. I dont know how one could deliver a collage and still deliver the brief.
So I went through the technical route and built the model to scale in sketchup - very time consuming. Anway in the end it was a case of I started so I'll finish ...
As a means to the end, I bolted the main raw unfinished criteria together for my first crit as I wanted to find out what I needed to do. The output didnt reflect the input, but how could it be anything else at this stage?
A technical brief for an ideas competition. I would have preferred to do something arty but felt I had to adhere to the brief. I dont know how one could deliver a collage and still deliver the brief.
So I went through the technical route and built the model to scale in sketchup - very time consuming. Anway in the end it was a case of I started so I'll finish ...
As a means to the end, I bolted the main raw unfinished criteria together for my first crit as I wanted to find out what I needed to do. The output didnt reflect the input, but how could it be anything else at this stage?
Monday, 14 November 2011
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Eastbourne
The air was blue in Eastbourne when I hit the white balance off my shiny new camera. Shame such nice pictures....
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