Tuesday 8 April 2014

Lots of work to do on my sketches. Just wireframes to work out what I should be looking at at the moment. Tricky in a way becasue my 1:50 site is essentially 2 paths and is almost all about people moving through the site on towards to parks main attractions elsewhere. Lots of work to do here on these too....


1:50 plan that was ready for yesterdays crit, only really had the base layer and annotation ready, with just a short time to try putting very realistic clone tool patches of the actual plants showing where they would be from above. Plus the water is a miserable effort. The sky it is reflecting looks like the boiling fumes of a volcanic erruption. The effec in the bottom right corner was all a bit much, and I ran out time to make the differing heights clearer. Feedback on previous plans was that they were too wishy washy, now too much. So back to the crit sheets and the list of doom we were given yesterday....


1:50 Section that went onto the sheet for yesterdays interim crit. This time in June. Tried to recreate the exact scene inlcluding the trees exactly as they would look, again after 10 years and what the matric planting on the right hand side have have in bloom inclduing alliums, glads and aquilegia's in the Sesleria. Tried this on with drawn in people, but since evething else is realistic, going to swap them for real people. feeback is to knock both sections back a bit.


Wednesday 15 January 2014

Thematic Title thoughts......Snakes and ladders is A) Rubbish B) Foucssing on a visual device and C) Really rubbish. The scheme is based around transformation, and the planting river and the pergolas were my starting point and the river has now been made into a paddling and damming stream to replace the paddling pool in Dickens Square . Hmmm.....eddy, fluidity, fluid dynamics, downstream, current, flow, fluid,stream? Needs some thought and I want it to be echoed in some sort of graphic device.

These are the very rough perspectives I took to the final crit. Some of them look terrible because some of the shrub and plant groupings are still just lines on the ground, so the intended landscape character isn't shown. The planting rivers winding back and forth across the views in Newington Gardens for instance. The geometrical hedges are easier to just pull up, and where they are present, like in the first two views, I am fairly happy. They need a lot of fancy pantsing to finish. In some places the background of housing blocks needs more screening to avoice a visual 'jar' in the views and I think the entrances need more emphasis.









I took this version of the masterplan 1:500 of my Transformative scheme to the final crit on Monday. Have completely redesigned Dickens Square as at the interim crit I was told it didn't have enough landscape character. All those big scale crossing lines left me cold in the end and in the end I decided a strong axial design (thank you Le Notre) focusing on a cafe fronting plaza was would serve the area best. A community hub.Ran out of time for annotation, so had to hand write it in a flap in the morning, and with that little sleep, the spelling was pretty special! Only the base colours are applied at this stage, and with only the briefest of annotation I need to explain things like the river better. Also face the audience. I can never seem to manage that!