Rough costs for some of the areas:
The official Urban Development Project Blog for the MA Landscape Architecture - Group 3 students
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Slogan
Updated list with all our suggestions. Now it's time to choose...
My favourites (in order) would be 'Elephant goes to the theatre' (hybrid of 3. and 4.), 6. which I don't think is necessarily too long, and 13.
1. Swans reflecting Elephants (Dalì's painting)
2. Stage the Elephant
3. Elephant at the Theatre
4. Elephant goes to the South Bank
5. Acting the Elephant
6. Dressing up and Stepping out - the Elephant goes Theatrical (a bit long!)
7. Bright Elephant
8. A man's elephant is his castle
9. The elephant in the artist's room
10. Scene change in Southwark
11. Set for change in Southwark
12. All the world a stage - in Elephant & Castle
13. Elephant & Castle set for 'dramatic' change
14. Dramatic new scenery for Southwark/ Elephant & Castle
15. Southwark and Elephant & Castle Revamp
16. New Street Scene for Southwark and Elephant & Castle
17. The elephant's creative castle
18. A green river runs through it
19. A creative river runs through it.
According to the brief, the slogan should "summarise the group response to your agenda... like a heading [ ] in a newspaper summarise the content of the urban design proposal." It should convey the idea of the scheme to someone who knows nothing about it. With this in mind, my own feeling is that it should include Elephant and something related to our theatre theme.
Are there any more suggestions? Do we need another vote?
My favourites (in order) would be 'Elephant goes to the theatre' (hybrid of 3. and 4.), 6. which I don't think is necessarily too long, and 13.
1. Swans reflecting Elephants (Dalì's painting)
2. Stage the Elephant
3. Elephant at the Theatre
4. Elephant goes to the South Bank
5. Acting the Elephant
6. Dressing up and Stepping out - the Elephant goes Theatrical (a bit long!)
7. Bright Elephant
8. A man's elephant is his castle
9. The elephant in the artist's room
10. Scene change in Southwark
11. Set for change in Southwark
12. All the world a stage - in Elephant & Castle
13. Elephant & Castle set for 'dramatic' change
14. Dramatic new scenery for Southwark/ Elephant & Castle
15. Southwark and Elephant & Castle Revamp
16. New Street Scene for Southwark and Elephant & Castle
17. The elephant's creative castle
18. A green river runs through it
19. A creative river runs through it.
According to the brief, the slogan should "summarise the group response to your agenda... like a heading [ ] in a newspaper summarise the content of the urban design proposal." It should convey the idea of the scheme to someone who knows nothing about it. With this in mind, my own feeling is that it should include Elephant and something related to our theatre theme.
Are there any more suggestions? Do we need another vote?
Tuesday 7 February 2012
SketchDesign - FirstImpression
I Must say, it was quite straight forward putting all this together.
There is still lot of work to do but just wanted to show you how the Sketch design looks so far.
Most of the general areas were treated in the same way by all of us with particular details and different thoughts in smaller areas.
I combined the thoughts and an even greater detail showed up, which is good. I personally added the "green touch" to it as it was missed from most of sketches.
Overall, good group exercise .. well done guys!
If my son gets tired of pulling me, beating me, creating mess and shouting I hope I can finish this today.
Feel free to add comments about what else needs to be added and will make the changes as the work progresses.
There is still lot of work to do but just wanted to show you how the Sketch design looks so far.
Most of the general areas were treated in the same way by all of us with particular details and different thoughts in smaller areas.
I combined the thoughts and an even greater detail showed up, which is good. I personally added the "green touch" to it as it was missed from most of sketches.
Overall, good group exercise .. well done guys!
If my son gets tired of pulling me, beating me, creating mess and shouting I hope I can finish this today.
Feel free to add comments about what else needs to be added and will make the changes as the work progresses.
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| First Impression - Sketch Design |
Monday 6 February 2012
Greening the area
There is definitely a need for more greenery.
A thought is green walls like New Street Square london
but I think this might be too high maintenance for the area.
What about ivy? - It's low maintenance & doesn't mind shade.
A thought is green walls like New Street Square london
What about ivy? - It's low maintenance & doesn't mind shade.
My vote for Eyesore-it
My vote would be for Tam's Elephant picture (No 1) second choice would be Stuart's Elephant picture (No. 12) .
Adding a bit of colour
Here are some of the images that we already discussed on Friday and a few extra murals. The type of thing thet could add colour- and again a linking theme to our area
Murals, Havana
Haas & Hahn favela painting, Rio
La Boca, Buenos Aries
San Diego
Murals, Havana
Haas & Hahn favela painting, Rio
La Boca, Buenos Aries
San Diego
Thoughts about our mission!
1) Create a cultural “district” which hosts a
mixture of activities: culture, education, leisure, commercial that
interact with each other
2) Use the Heygate as major art and performance building (it could host theatre, music and art gallery venues) + learning facilities for students
3) Create a number of exhibition and performance
pavilions (or squares) dotted around the district alongside major art and
culture facilities. Create a colorful route to follow from Heygate to Southbank with performances, music, commercial "pit-stops" and green spaces.
4) Art and performances should
represent the different cultures of the area (black Jamaican and
African, Bangladeshi and Indians)
Along the walk...
Floating Landscapes by Numen
And City Lounge by Carlos Martinez
Sunday 5 February 2012
I think the work that FAT Architecture are producing right now is really exciting and relevant to our discussions on Friday.
They dress the buildings like theatre scenery, creating some pretty funky building facades. Imagine something like this connecting Elephant to the Southbank...
It would definitely give identity to the arterial roads connecting the two.
They dress the buildings like theatre scenery, creating some pretty funky building facades. Imagine something like this connecting Elephant to the Southbank...
It would definitely give identity to the arterial roads connecting the two.
Voting time
Cast your votes please for your favourite 'Eyesore-it' to be included in our final presentation - just pick a number from 1-12... (the originals are on Skydrive so you can check out the words!)
'Happy' buildings
Another take on colourful buildings - this is Haus Rizzi, or "Happy Rizzi House" (actually offices) in Braunshwieg, Germany, designed by American artist James Rizzi.
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