Week 3_30/01/2012

This week I have been putting together a timeline since the Tudor period and when the Huguenots began to arrive in England. I have also created a small 1:50 site model for my convenience to help me understand the complexity of the site.  

The above timeline shows a record of the Monarchies of England, which the grey background symbolises the protestant Kings and Queens and the blue Catholics.  It also shows all of the Popes as the head of the Catholic church throughout the time.  The periods of architectural style and popular architects at the time, help to make a comparison between the events of the timeline of what was happening at the time and the architectural movement.  

Below is my tutorial sheet from this week.

During the tutorial my ideas were slightly sporadic as I had thought of odd pieces of the puzzle of how the different types of resources and buildings could fit together on the site.  So we initially just spoke through these ideas then discussed making models to help combine all the pieces together. So I put together a 1:500 site model shown below to see if it would inspire me to link all of my ideas. Furthermore I began sketching out my ideas to see how I could develop them to link together.

1:50 Site Model

Sketch Book - Memorial Space 

Sketch Book - Performance Space

The model shows the heights of the surrounding buildings as well as the different levels on the site location.  The model is quite basic but allows for interpretation and trial and error with testing out massing structures and other ideas.  

The first sketch shows the idea of having a memorial space on the water as previously discussed as the water is reflecting and soothing, I feel that there is a connection between the two.  The second sketch shows an idea of locating the theatre around the roman wall and having it as a permanent feature on the stage.  Therefore whatever show takes place would have to incorporate it into their performance. 

From the model I have decided to look at levels, how they relate on the site and how they could relate in history to the levels of power and wealth which would cover from The King right down to the immigrant Huguenots.  This week I am going to look into how this idea would work on the site in the context and see how this could relate to the materials and building process' I use to produce my final design.  I am also going to do a mapping diagram on the site to show the most 'powerful' and 'richest' locations, which I feel will be at the top of my architectural and historical chain of power.