Week #6

Around the world in 8 Cities

Today's lecture discussed a variety of cities and previous examples completed by past design students. After today I have a good idea of what is expected from us for our poster in project #2 and how our scale models should be done.

Things to consider are:

- Report has no word limit

- Nolli map is required (week 3)

- Urban environment investigation (weeks 1 to 4)

- Images sized according to importance

- Blackboard readings should be incorporated and referenced

- Monuments etc should be highlighted
- 1:1000 model (600x600)
- A1 landscape poster

Project #2 Group Work

Today as a group we distributed further research and poster components between each other, with a goal of completing the majority of the A1 panel by next Monday. The remaining part of the panel (report) will be left until after the model construction has begun.

The tasks were divided as follows:

- Blair: Complete Nolli map of our selected area

- Angela: Street sections of both new and old parts of the city

- Alan: Timeline, historical analysis maps

- Myself: Poster layout and any additional components

I begun work on designing the poster straight away, sketching out rough layouts for the A1 panel as can be seen in the image below.

As the week progressed I continued work on the poster template and have arrived at the design shown below. This design will inevitably change over the coming weeks as the team sends me the nolli maps, timeline and other imagery. 

Reflections

This week has been much slower than I would have liked, I haven't heard anything from the group members, and I haven't received any images to contribute to the poster. The lecture from this week has further reinforced my previous reflection from week #5 about the layouts of cities and where their original inspiration came from. We looked at Roman, Spanish, American and British styles and how they were analysed and applied to other cities. Today we looked at 8 different cities across the globe, and while most of them had certain elements that could be directly related back to the 4 different designs, a lot of them were a combination or seemed to follow more dominating influences such as the landscape or transport hubs. Its seems that this idea of categorising cities is a lot more complicated then first thought.