Week two

This week  I strongly focused on  generating new ideas from doing random drawings then looking at the previous research to then try and tune this in to some structure. I decide to focus on boxes. From my drawing this is what I created, I thought I could have these boxes in the interior space as the space is already formed I would have to work out a way to create rooms in the space. This is why I thought of hanging the boxes then shinning down different lights to create the different room, this could be used for various different things. From this I started looking at different tube interiors and noticed that all tube lines are on different levels, this would make it more challenging to use this space as interior for living and socialising. Looking at the blue prints of the tube tunnels I started to think of the underground hive in Resident Evil .This gave me the idea to link try and link up my boxes. I then thought of using them as rooms and having them on some form of rotational system to give each room an amount of sun light as this is the main disadvantage of living or socialising underground.


Another interesting thing I explored this week was mixing with the fashion group to try and create something together. My group and I decided to try and create some form of Tudor collar out of all the random objects we had brought in. This exercise helped me to think about the materials I used and how different materials are useful for different things.

I went on to look at Tudor architecture and noticed how they create boxes with their strong black and white lines. This lead me to look at Victoria architecture as often they use arches, this interested me as if I chose to use a tunnel, it is going to be arched and this is something that is going to be challenging therefore I want to take inspiration from their work. Both Tudors and Victorians architecture both use light in very different ways as I am working underground light is going to be very important.

Over all from this week I feel I have understood more of the challenges of working underground to develop this space and form as well as the challenges of light. Between doing experimental work a long side research I think I have come across some ways to over come these challenges at some level.