Brief:
The site for this project is as shown on the plan below, and your client is The Digbeth & Community Trust.It includes the area immediately around The Empire Remains Shop - Birmingham, at the junction of Fazeley Street and the Digbeth Branch Canal.
You will be working individually to design a community-oriented landscape and within it a related kiosk
Examples could be a
• Community Green Gym • Meditation & Yoga Park • Canal Heritage Park
Ultimately you can decide what the purpose of the landscape is, and you can decide what the kiosk is ‘selling’ to potential visitors, e.g. It could be just an information point or a shop/ refreshments kiosk. Irrespective of its use, it is important that your design responds to, and creates a resource for the local community and that you try to think of the Landscape element and the Architectural element as completely connected.
You will be working individually to design a community-oriented landscape and within it a related kiosk
Examples could be a
• Community Green Gym • Meditation & Yoga Park • Canal Heritage Park
Ultimately you can decide what the purpose of the landscape is, and you can decide what the kiosk is ‘selling’ to potential visitors, e.g. It could be just an information point or a shop/ refreshments kiosk. Irrespective of its use, it is important that your design responds to, and creates a resource for the local community and that you try to think of the Landscape element and the Architectural element as completely connected.
Initial Site Analysis
Once I had analysed the site I went further into my research and conceptual development of the site and on Illustrator using digi map pdf, I edited them into more conceptual pieces rather than just maps to really begin to understand what I am working with. Over laying different sections of maps in different colours and voiding some areas that I needed ignore and voided spaces with a fill tool to focus on them.
From here I moved onto some basic site sketches of my journey to and from the site. Using photoshop and graphics tablet.
From here I decided that my efforts would be best directed towards a form of CAD to again develop my understanding of the site but also to work on my CAD skills. I used AutoCad to work on my to scale model and also to learn how to use Autocad in architecture. From this experience I realised it is very difficult to create a model using auto cad and that would be best used for floor plans, as the scale and mapping of the app is far more compatible with flats.
After this I decided to do some development drawings of these AutoCAD finals just to experiment with colour and my graphics tablet. Whilst importing these into my portfolio I have since found I can't quite get the same colour therefore effect when I'm multiply the layers onto the page to get rid of the white back ground.