Week 6

Week 6

This weeks lecture focused on a few specific cities and how we can apply the theories and knowledge we have learnt about in the past lecture and analyse the cities accordingly.

Mirko went through the tips and guidelines for Assignment 1 submission-

A1 poster

600x600mm 1:1000 scale model of city

Report - smaller section on history
             - structure and layout

Nolli map (week 3 workshop) - detailed, major part of the city

                include two nolli maps. one for the scale model (600x600m grid of town)
                one for the panel (larger scope showing the whole city, the differing layouts in the city)

Investigation on urban environment (weeks 1-4 lectures n tuts)
                important aspects of the city
development and changes.

Tutorial
Sat down with Elise today and went through potential ideas to cover within our report

Things to Consider:

Bridges - Comparing the city structure before and after the main bridges were built, did they have to reconfigure the streets in order to accommodate for the increased traffic over them and through the city?

River life - shipping channels (import export), influences brought from the river (such as from other cultures)

Analyse how people use the city (popular spots, movement through the city)

New train lines, bus ways etc - How did these public transport additions alter the way people move around the city.

Architectural style of the city - Does this style carry through from the old district to the new?

City sections - help portray the scale and layout of city streets. Use these to compare the new and old cities.

Church -> acts as a focal point.  Maybe look at catholic vs. protestant influences (since Mainz is primarily Roman Catholic)?

Timeline - How the city has expanded - old maps and diagrams may be more useful rather than text.

Aassignment update -

Started laser cutting by myself.

Assembled the site model with ben.

I used Autodesk Revit and imported an aerial photo of our chosen site. Using revit i am able to trace the outlines of the city blocks by using its mass modeling function

Once each city block was outlines, i simply extruded all the shapes to create a 3D model of the city. This is the 'site plan' of the city. I printed this plan to a PDF document and imported into in Corel Draw. 

Since the laser cutters in the workshop only function off Corel Draw files, I imported my Revit PDF into corel and then was able to make adjustments to the drawing (such as changing lineweight to 'hairline' and the line colour to red). Once this was all done within Corel i was able to move onto laser cutting the shape out

Above is a shot of the laser cutting in action. In order to make the scale model 3D, we had to cut several copies of the buildings so we could stack them ontop of each other to give the impression of a 3D building.

This is a progress show of the scale model just after it was painted it first coast. As you can see each building is made up of 3-4 cut outs stacked on top of each other.

That is all the progress so far for this week. Since I drew, imported and cut the entire scale model myself. I have left the report side of the project to the girls, Jordyn and Alyssa so everyone does their fair share of the workload. The actually assembly of the model was done by Ben and myself, and then we will probably end up doing the panel ourselves as well.