Cathedral Place - Post Interim #1

Hi St Paul's close-designers..

Firstly, congratulations on Thursday! Many of you have finally started to kick into gear, producing a great amount of work for discussion, and then, all of you have interesting project ideas to work with for the rest of semester.

We are over half-way now, and one week before you will have to work independently in the non-instruction period. It would be good to start thinking now about getting some colleagues to work with, and a regular place a time. Non-instruction can be a time to really develop your projects, if you can keep up motivation and good critique from peers.

Second, looking at the schedule, this week you all need to complete a shift from ideas and concepts into a solid 1/100 and 1/50 detailed project. This is an important step, to allow us to start to talk about details, materials, facade composition, surfaces, and further refine the play with meaning. It's probably a good time you all have a look at the schedule and imagine what you might be producing for the final panels. I would even do a loose mock-up which includes all the relevant drawings. Every one of you have interesting projects that have great potential, so this step to 1/100 and 1/50 this week is completely doable. (no-one should be going back now)

Third, Richard Falkinger spoke to me about how impressed he was at your development over the last week. Next Thursday he would like to have some time to critique your work again, and resurface some of the earlier discussions back into your project. (Again to do this you'll need to finally make your projects solid). His general comments were again about thinking through issues of entrance, access, movement, and structure! I would add 'light' as something that came up frequently on Thursday. Please take advantage of precedents!

Fourth, Can everyone please take quick photos of all their work and post on the blog. You can send multiple photos as one email with attachments to post@closeoverplay.posterous.com
If you can please do this straight away (now/today!) I'll ask some others people, and the guests from Thursday to have a look and perhaps add comments to your work. (Tim is away next week, and it will give him a chance to keep connected too.) I also think this would be a good opportunity to start to share each others' work, and as we said, drawing/presentation methods. Facing the non-instruction period, it's important that you feel like your peers in the studio are supporting you and the conversation has really shifted to peer feedback and encouragement.

Scarey times, but oh so exciting. This is a great site, both challenging and fascinatingly important. You are all on a good footing,

Keep going!

Ammon + Tim

Guest critics - TOMORROW

1530-1730
Jillian Walliss (UniMelb)
Julie Willis (UniMelb)
(1630<) Paolo Tombesi (UniMelb)
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(tba) Elena Porqueddu (Milan Polytech)
(tba) Rochus Hinkel (RMIT)

1800-2000
Michael Frazzetto (Six Degrees)
David Pryor (City of Melbourne)
Matt Rawlins (Jackson Clements Burrows)
Tom Gooch (Rush Wright)
Paolo Tombesi (UniMelb)

Close Over(p)lay Masters Design Studio - Inerim Presentation - Thursday 9th September 2010

Hi everyone,

Was great to see some of you have done a lot of work since last Thursday and have made some bold steps! Keep going.  We are concerned that a few of you are not yet moving at the required pace and must pick it up.  This Thursday is a really important milestone in the semester. It is a chance for you to get some excellent feedback. Make the most of it!

Confirming details discussed last night regarding this Thursday’s presentation. We decided:

1.       It is okay to use the CAD drawings of existing for this presentation however all new works are to be drawn by hand.

2.       The minimum requirements are:

a.       Location Plan/Broader context plan 1:500 or 1:1000.

b.      Precinct Plan 1:200.

c.       All plans 1:200.

d.      2 x Sections 1:200.

e.      Selection of hand drawn perspectives/vignettes.

f.        Hand-made models.

The physical site model is not finalized and will not be ready for Thursday so you will not be able to use this for context during the presentation.

We talked last night about digital presentations being accepted however we are now not going to be able to accommodate this. We will confirm the presentation times and venue soon but we will not be presenting in a room with the available technology.  All presentations are to be on paper.  If you have already done a digital presentation please print out the pages instead. This is your first chance to take some real pride in your presentation techniques and practice for future presentations.

All of you have wonderful ideas! Bring them to life on Thursday! You will have 5 minutes each to present your work and then 5 minutes of feedback.  5 minutes is a very short time so consider the structure of your presentation. I think it is best to structure your verbal presentation around what you have drawn. It never makes sense when you are talking about ideas that are not on paper.

Don’t forget about your work leading up to this point. How do you now stand with your positions on Ornament and Dressing? How did the event change your perception of the site? Think about the key themes of the studio and aim to address a selection of these in your presentation.

Those of you who require a time slot in the early session on Thursday, please email Ammon ASAP.

Enough from me, see you on Thursday, keep going.

Tim.