GROUP MODEL - final product

The final model then produced, with the waltz act as a datum, then the chronological order of the city from present to the predicted future.
The mirror plays its part by only working at certain angle to allow the viewer to see glimpses of the untold site.
Parametric mesh marks a time when HS2 is introduced, and people were forced to fit into the architecture, and in the end, the architecture itself shapes the people.

Final Model - composed alongside the initial sketches and the initial keypoints of the site.

GROUP MODEL - the "present"

As far as the group model progress, I were to think of the present of Digbeth. I see it as a dead unwelcoming place, yet when I went through the site, I see more of it; a value I otherwise unable to see.

I then represent my thoughts using broken mirror. It emits an unwelcoming dangerous feelings but triggers a sense of curiousness to the viewer. As you look at it at a different angle, you will start to see that the centre piece be reflected back to your eyes in a specific amount.

You will then realize - just like the site itself - that there is more to the model, it's just that you have to look at it at a different perspective.

GROUP MODEL - study model

An initial model was made - and the model is made to portray a transition, it shows the 'waltz' or the existing human scale being broken apart by an invisible force such as the redevelopment.


credit to Chloe 

GROUP MODEL - conceptual diagram

Model concept diagram derived from earlier sketch. Main materials were discussed, such as they are:
bricks; metal rods and plates; base; perspex.

credit to Thomas Higginson

GROUP MODEL - a rough sketch

8ft x 1ft sectional model sketch idea

The idea is to integrate both, the dance of the Waltz in Viena and the industral history of Eastside, Birmingham. Derived from the two previous drawings, Waltz were mainly taken from the first, while the chronological essence were taken from the second drawing.

STORY DEVELOPMENT

Combined Sketches

In a group of four, we were asked to produce a sketches that speaks of the site that we've been through, and of the stories that we have told earlier.
Then later on, within the same group, we were to produce a sketches of plans and sections that tells the stories of the site in a 8x1 feet sheet. The end result are quite interesting indeed.