CONNOR MH ARCHITECTURE DS1B
2022
@00646545
CONTENTS FILM SET DESIGN Angels of our Better selves
Brief
6-7
Clients notes
8
Storyboard Images
9, 12
Concepts
10 - 11
1st model
13
Preliminary drawings
14 - 15
Reaserch
16 - 17
Drawings
18 - 19
Scale drawings
20 - 21
Final model
22 - 23
Reflection
24 - 25
HOUSE DESIGN Directors house
Brief
30 - 31
History
32 - 33
Site Anaysis
34 - 37
ANGE OUR BETTE
FILM SET HO
LS OF ER SELVES
OUSE DESIGN
D E SI G N B R I E F FILM SET DESIGN
Tutors : Inji Kenawy Carl Meddings Stylianos Zavos
Team :
Connor Harris Maddie Richardson Rhys Metters Parsa Yaghouti
In this project the team has been appointed as the architects / set designers with a task to prepare a site / house / set for an oncoming film. Pleminary notes and letters have been sent from the Director ready for work to commence. The team has been guided to read the documents carefuly, due to how veige and complex the cameras movements through the structure is. The client has also asked to create a set of images to aid the design process that will double up as a storyboard. The director has also asked for 2 indevidual collages / montages / drawn images of the scenes described. The brief goes into detail on key room contents aswell as room connections. Starting from the back lower portion of the house giving almost full creative interpritation of how the camera moves throughout the spaces moving from floor to floor overlaping in areas in some sitations. The Brief clearly outines certian objectives needed in the brief. These are, indevidual two large collages / montages / drawings, images of the scene descibed by the director, Visaual and writen documentation whitch demonstrates the thought process at work in the models produced in the group, Reflective writing on how well the team has worked together in the group and a Final detailed model of the house and an additional mood images, This incorperates any intermediate models and any material that will convey the teams thought process.
CLIENTS LET TERS
The Client sent 5 pages of information sectioned into, Introduction, Characters, Opening scene (situation 1), Opening scene (Context), Situation 2 (Final). Combined the letters gives a a detailed look into the characters life and choices allowing the team to create a profile for each character. Introduction The Introduction creates a condensed idea of the full film mostly set in “South East Asia” commenting a british house will be preasent in the start and end of the film. Higlighting the inportance of including the familys culture / context into the design of the structure, As far as commenting the house is also character in the film. Characters The client outlines 5 characters, Emma (19), Xiana (19), Kia (20), Big j (23), Djin (20). From the letter Xiana, Big J and Djin are friends of kia and Emma, because of this their profile will not be used in the design of the familys house. Kia, the central character, doese not dominate the scenes but will be the building block for the culture and context of the house design. Hes a muscisian specialising in gitar and “djembe drummer, Singer”. Described as “rather notable, tatty and cool”. Emma is infered as a authority to kia, Becuse of this emma is infered as a sister. Described as “confident not sassy” aswell as does not like Big J. Opening Scene The opening scene first focuses on the exterior of the house including the back garden commenting that the house is locted on a large plot of land “Other simalarly large houses in big gardens”. Moving from the outside the camera enters from the the lowest floor (snug room level to the back gaurden) into the loby space (above snug) before rising up 3 levels into the office room. Opening scene (Context) Starting in the office space the camera lowers into the floor below Describing a hallway with 1 bedroom, outside door and a 2 high galery space. becuse of the 2 high space, confusion between the team was created on whitch floor the spaces floor is on. exiting the the gallery the camera can see a balcony aswell as a view into the livingroom. Situation 2 (Final) the final sitation moves from the large front door to a bedroom a the landing with a note saying “go away kia” on the door moving back down the stairs the camera moves to the kitchen panning arround the entrance moving througn the orangery to the livingroom, the living room has an l saped plan with looks to the garden.
STORYBOARD
C O N CE P T S After Higlighting and simplifying the text the team created a scheule of acomidation that outlines the floors, described furniture aswell as features aswell as other inportant information discussed from the team. Originaly writen by Maddie Richardson. Kai’s parents’ house - English house Represets Family, Ownership, Belonging, Warmth, Love, Friendship, Wealth Light, Space, Material - Big windows, traditional english concervitory - Organic Flurries: -- Stone - Slate - Wood
Thoughts on ho
- Plants everyewhere - Large stone chimney (mantelpiece full of memeories: representing love, family and belonging) -Share preocupation with green issues (obveous in the overall character and design of the the house) -Intimate and alive Outside House Elements
ATTIC / 3RD F
-Modern House, some stone walls, some large double hight windows -Living room balcony -Three storys high -Lower story being very heavy stone -Elseware a comination of luvers, timber slats, windows and stonework, looks solid and technical, sense that it is carefully designed -Pitched roof with no frills but wit some large, glazed areas coordinating with the rythm of the wall below -Whole inpression is solidity and appropriateness Outside Gaurden Elements -Little overgrown and looking very autumnal -Compost heap at the end of the garden -rose bed and a leafy lawn round a a massive oak tree that picks up a path that leads up to a decked BBQ area out side the snug room -BBQ stuff stilll out, covered in leaves -Far end of the building past a few windows and doors t intermediate rooms there is a potting area with lots of overgown reminants of garden ingactivity: spadefork, wheelbarrow all covered in leaves and overgrown. -lots of pot, couple of broken gnomes, a frisbee, a sad looking football and a rusty swing ball game leaning against the wall by a pond.
2ND FLOO
1ST FLOO
GROUND FL
ouse views to the gurden aswel as how the ground level will chnge from the front to the back of the property
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This diagram gives an insight of how the house will look 3 floors from the back while being able to house all the clients needs by incorperating their offace into the attic space.
Team Storyboard & Architect Collage After Finishing the idividual storyboard the team decided to create 9 pece storyboard outlining key elements of the house from situation 1. This also alows the team the conbine their first thoughts of the project aswel as vusualise how other mebers are thinking about the project. The collage below created by connor Harris merges the 3 architects work into one building the architects being Alvar and Aino Aalto, Arne Jacobsen and Peter Zumthon.
After the group Storyboard the group had a liking to my house form from the individual storyboard aswell as the the form created in the group storyboard. With this the group storyboard image has been skeched aswell as modeled by Rhys Metters this allowed the team to look at the form and compare it to certain criteria needed in the schedule of accomidation.
PRELIMINAR Y SKETCHES
these sketches allowed me to briefly show preliminary design ideas to the team and getting feedback on these ideas. some of these iseas were, multiple entrances, open plan and closed areas. aditional rooms not listed on the schedue of accomidation and different roof types and purposes. All Sketches on this page has been created by Connor Harris
this alowed quick floor plans to be created aswell as develop many ways to incorperate the schedule of accomidation. One of the sketches shows two houses intercoliding allowing the model to be spacous, modern and also brittish due to the well known gable roof. the sketches leaded to debates on proportions of the house due to a rough mock up of a combination of rhys’ phisical model and my indevidual storyboard was mocked up in autocad. the discussion arroose when a bedroom similar in a similar layout to the rooms above was isuffcently proptioned for a weathy house. being 2 x 2m the majority of the team voted for a redesign.
HOUSE RE ASERCH
At the end of the l the group meeting the group decided to look for inparation fom other large houses with inavative ideas and technologys that could be icluded in the new designs. This allows for different views on the for new insperation for the desgn aswell as give diffrent materials that could be used in the finshed model.s Most houses use a curtain wall in some area in the house or some type of large window to allow as much light in as possible they also use mostly 2 or 3 different materials on the exterior usualy used as a gradiant from top down or to display different depths of the building.
The team created another schedule of accomodation that clearly defines the rooms on eatch floor aswell as connected rooms, this allowed the development of sketes to be faster due to clearly defined connected rooms. Two top images writen by Maddie Richardson Lower image writen by Connor Harris
SKETCHES
These sketches allowed the team to to pick and chose between two different layouts. both create a mostly open plan space whitch satisfys alll of the requirements on the schedule of accomidation aswell as thoughts on the structure for the model. the sketches were created in a rough proportion to a scale room.
GROUND FLOOR (Entrance)
After the team looked at both the sketches the sketch above was chosen. Origonaly sketched by Maddie Richardson the team went out to create a 1st floor aswell as to scale plan of the house. this included looking back to the colages to inplent diffrent features of the ground floor.
1ST FLOOR
The first floor, quicky drafted by Connor Harris aswell as influanced by Parsa Yaghouti this floor was not able to be drafed to scale in the meeting. but had enogh deail to show a conceptual design ready to be scaled the next meeting.
S C A L E D R AW I N G
Scale plan drafted by maddie richardson & Rhys metters (Top Image) Photoshoped by Connor Harris (bottom Image)
Scale plan drafted by maddie richardson (Top Image) Photoshoped by Connor Harris (bottom Image)
1:50 SCALE MODEL
Taking 3 days to complete Rhyse Metters and Maddie Richardson created a phisical model. being able to be opend into sections and floors the models that allowd the team to find different inprovements tzz hat could help buildabuility and rigitity of the model. Due to the circomstances of the location and time the model was created issues arrised. Because of this throught the building process memebrs of the team could not give feedback while the model was being created. Because of this many inprovements arrose from the model after being finished, this includes inconplete snug room (no entrance from the garden), spiral staircase shoud be removed, window placement should be inproved. Walls are very thin, construction elements are unlear with roof element not touching correctly. this gave the team a clear way to inprove the model aswell as create a new outlook into other ways to look at the model.
REFLECTION
Reflecting on the past few weeks overall the team slowly split due to conflicts of intrests in the last week of the project due to location and conflicting friend groups. The team started with a schedule of accomiation aswell as written floor plans, ready for next week due to members being off or ill. Week 2 explored diffrent forms and compatability. After a discussion on room sizes, sketched floor plans and Architect, house reaserch the team agreed to focus on the phisical model at the end of the meeting. Week 3, The week before the presentation, two floor plans was created and voted on by the team after analysing the plan, by the time ground (entrance) scale plan and 1st floor draft was created half the team had left. The next day the team verbaly agreed on a date that wasn’t met due to conflicting intrests, rearaging to a members flat on the friday before the presentation. Over the three days 2 members of the team was ostricised due to not being able to enter the flat while asking each day. After a couple days the two team members in the flat confrunted the other members about their work but still persisted to not come in. Learning from this experiance a list of work should be created aswell as a meeting place and time as early as possible, meeting each week to completion. while also having a place to centralise work and written documentation of what happened each week.This will allow the team to have a better time frame and goals for the project
Images above shows 4 times the two teamates tried to meet up when the other member declined or ignored the request. the very left images shows members of the team consulting work that wasnt that wasnt communcated at the time.
Plan of what we would do diffrently Writen by Connor Harris
REFLECTION
Scale blocks of rooms Created by Parsa Yaghouti and Connor Harris
Renders of the house Created by Parsa Yaghouti
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SALFORD QUAYS | M50 3
DESIGN
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D E SI G N B R I E F HOUSE DESIGN
SALFORD QUAYS | M50 3TT | 53.470726, -2.290396 Following the creation of a film set design for “Angels of our Better Selves.” Astounded by the set design, the film set director has approached the Architect to design their family house. It’s worth noting that the Sets’ characters are mostly identified by family members. Giving a thorough understanding of the family’s needs and expectations for the residence. The property connects the commercial and residential sectors of the Salford quays and is located in a trapezoid compact plot at an entrance to Media City. The property also offers various characteristics that may be included into the final design due to its location on a public riverfront, views of old Trafford aswell as surrounded by new highrise development. The family members include the Father (Engineer at ARUP), Mother (Director), 2 Daughters, One in secondry school (11 - 16) the other being the oldest (18+) , 1 son wins with the younger doughter (11 - 16). Living with 3 labradoors with one expecialy noted as having walking issues. The design should include space for a workshop / gardening area, Garage / storage space, Music room (with a large picture window), Large kitchen (Close to large table area), Meeting room, Study Space, Tripple hight space, Bedroom Gallery, smooth transation from the exteror to interior, Entrance canopy, Snug space and Fireplace, Natural material walls with arranged glazing attached to a private quiet gaurdenspace. The client also hinted to incorperate suntrap spaces into the first floor aswell as keep the workspace and living space as sepperated as possibe.
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with over 337, 846 resedential homes in Manchester and Salford combined. The Inportance in the sites geography and oppertunitys can Only be reconised. A small percentage of houses can hold the tital of riverside, durasticaly decreasing when views of well known tourist atractions is introduced like old trafford, over the river from the site.
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HISTORY
B-B Manchester Dock 9 (top left) at the beginning of the 20th century. Dock 8 is to the right, and the ship canal is in the foreground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_docks
Salford quays Built in 1894 Salford Quays was build from a poduct of decining relations to liverpool. With rising prices to ship any goods from liverpools docks that alow manchester to become an industrial powerhouse, the weathy created a project to bring the shipping ability to manchester, skipping liverpools prices entirely. In the 1970s a recession forced the hands of the doeck owners to let off many staff, being one of the worst affected industrys, shutting down soon after for good. Built out of High quality materials like grannite, allowing the docks to last the tests of time, a regeneration was called by the councils due to the sites geography, being inbetween saford and manchester. Introducig private companies to the area, the regenreation was a success heavily funded allowing the area to become and develop their own community asell as focus on health and wellbeing arround the site. Authough the regeneration commenced in the 1980s work is still commencing to theis day investing in inportant facors today like wellbeing, heath aswell as commmunity and profit driven.
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