This was our official first design project of second year. After having a great relaxing summer, we had to crack back to work. It was the first experience of a live project that we have ever had. The year was split into three and we were all assigned a site. The sites were the australasian area at the botanical gardens, american area at the botanical gardens and my site which was on dundee campus behind the tennis courts and close to the union.
The project was a completely timber design structure to provide shelter for the public. The whole year were given to opportunity to show there proposals, of which one for each site would be chosen. The shelter would then be built and funded by us, through fundraising and sponsership.
I realised that for my site the best type of shelter to design would be one where someone could wait for their tennis match, spectate the tennis and have a lot of natural light. Urban art is a big problem in a city, no matter how controlling a society thinks they can be. It is a way for a person to express themselves and is a part of our modern society. There is no way of escaping it, so we need to embrace it. I thought a lot about this while designing my shelter because I noticed that there was a lot of graffiti around the campus and city. For my design I knew that it was going to be graffitied no matter what, so I wanted to encourage them to graffiti my shelter. Sort of given them a blank canvas if you will.
The design was ment to be easy to build and express the structure throughout. I made the facade out of plywood and encorported a ladder system that would help the artist to tag the roof. The design has a lot of light coming through the north light opening and also through the front opening. It is elevated off the ground to express the structure. The sheets are on the next post.
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