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IN TRANSIT II SMELL POLLUTION IN TRANSITIONAL SPACE

ISADA KULTAVARAKORN

ISADA KULTAVARAKORN KUL11350692 Interior and Spatial Design Chelsea College of Arts 2017/18

CONTENTS Introduction Pollution in transitional space......................................................4

Unit 2 Survey / Visited...........................................................................6 Observation...............................................................................10 Design Development.................................................................24 Work in Progress........................................................................32 Site Research.............................................................................34 Experimentation........................................................................52 Film making process..................................................................68 Interim Show.............................................................................76

Introduction In this folio book contains research and design development focusing on transitional space and how people behave while they are in transit. Tube and Railway Station are the main places for site research in this book.

From my previous practice, I was looking at people awareness and how they are unaware of their own surrounding. In this book, I still looking at people behaviour and also their opinion as a user.

In this practice, I am looking toward to environment and a pollution problem pacifically in waiting area. King’s Cross is the chosen site for my research to investigate further onto the smell pollution. Part of my research is that I collected a common smell that you can sense in an outdoor seating area, which includes: cigarette, dust, food, drink, pee and etc.

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SURVEY / VISITED I went to Transportation Museum in Covent Garden to do some research about Underground in London.

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I was looking at many models of tube station to get the idea of planning and customer journey system from the ticket office down to the platform.

One of the exhibition room was about new Tube line that’s going to be opening soon, which is Elizabeth Line. From what I saw, I think most of the new stations these day are very modern and much cleaner than the old one.

Furthermore, the ventilation system is so much better and also airconditioner is installed. That’s why I would like to focus on the older Tube station and see what I could do to improve it.

I also created a survey on Survey Monkey website to get a general idea of what Tube users think about the services and what their opinion is on how to improve or make things better.

Taken by Author., (2018), ‘Station model’, London Transport Museum.

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Taken by Author, Paris

OBSERVATION After having enough idea and how people think about transportation. I also want to observe how people occupy each space, including: Earl’s Court, Victoria, Wimbledon and Tolworth.

EARL’S COURT STATION I did a video showing the movement and the flowing of the people in the space throw different time of the day: morning, afternoon and evening. The reason I picked Earl’s Court to look at because it has it’s own character and not like the other underground station. There is also train to Heathrow Airport and also underground that’s above ground and it has a lot of transition in one station because it is the last stop before the district line separate into four ends.

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Taken by Author, Earl’s Court

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Taken by Author, Earl’s Court

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VICTORIA STATION Victoria Station is one of the stations in London that’s has a lot of dynamic and very busy since there is a lot of buses and train express that go to many different airports in London. I can see that most people are carrying luggage or backpack.

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Taken by Author, Victoria

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Taken by Author, Victoria

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ON A TRAIN FROM WIMBLEDON TO TOLWORTH Train stations, in general, are very interesting to look at. In comparing to the underground stations because of the duration time is longer.

There are more activities and movement in each waiting area. For example, duty-free in an airport as well as coffee shop and supermarket in most of the big train station.

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Taken by Author, Wimbledon

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Taken by Author, Tolworth

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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT I saw this whiteboard at Pimlico Tube Station. My first reaction was laughing and then I took a photo and share it on social media. I found it funny and inspiring at the same time. So I thought this could be something that I can achieve.

So the first idea was to create many small interventions through traveller journey from ticket office down to the platform. Making a small change or invent something nice that make people happier or distress their city life that always in a rush.

Taken by Author, Pimlico

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Taken by Author, Victoria

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Sketches by Author

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poster A2.pdf

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IN TRANSIT

(People movement in transitional space, focusing on public transport such as underground and train.)

The movie on display is an observation of people movement and activities while they are travelling. And also some survey from the Tube users in London. Focusing on what are their concern and what are they doing while travelling.

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SURVEY RESEARCH TUBE USERS

USERS CONCERN Air pollution 25%

Clean 30%

Users 96%

Others 5% Price 5%

Non-users 4%

Overcrowded 15% Delay 10%

No Internet on board 10%

There are three big concerns including cleanness, air-pollution and overcrowded. However, these 3 problems are too big for me to fix it by myself.

Especially, when these problems are already in process of developing and according to Transport for London website, they are already aware of the problem. So I only explore on fixing the obvious problem I saw in Victoria Station. I added roof and ceiling panel that absorb some sound to make the station less noisy. And the other one is growing an indoor plant or a hydroponic plant to make the atmosphere fresher.

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WHAT USERS DO WHILE THEY ARE ON BOARD

Not bored 30%

Others 15% Playing games 5%

Even with the tube which is a small duration but 70 percent of people is bored. Most people are listening to music and reading books but what about a long journey that's take more than 2 hours? What do people do? Wifi is available but not free, phone signal is unstable and charger socket isn’t available for every seat. The next idea I would like to research more on a long journey and movable activity room that can be provided on trains.

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Bored 70%

Reading 15%

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Listen to music 65%

USERS FEELING BORED

WORK IN PROGRESS On the work in progress presentation, I pin up a poster with information that I did earlier. I gather all the research and survey I did in one video and illustrate the statistic information into many pie charts. There are also proposals in collage images of what could be improved or to be done in the future.

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CLAPHAM JUNCTION STATION From all the information I have, there is two topic that I’m interested, which are overcrowded and pollution. I when to Clapham Junction Station to see this waiting area that was built as an extension afterwards to reduce the number of people on the platform. In the room also install an information screen that tells you what time the next train will be arriving.

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SITE RESEARCH

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KING’S CROSS STATION Pollution is also one of the topics I think it is interesting. So I went online researching for a possible site that I could look at. Then I came across this article from Evening Standard news saying that Northern line is one of the dirtiest Tube lines in 2016.

And also I found a site that gave you a diagram of hotspot polluted area in London, which King’s Cross and Euston are the two most polluted area.

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Taken by Author, King’s Cross Station

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The Regent’s Park

Euston

Marylebone Baker Street

Great Portland Street

Warren Street

Edgware Road

The Regent’s Park

Euston

Marylebone Baker Street Edgware Road

Illustration by Author, Information from http:// www.howpollutedismyroad.org.uk/hotspots.php

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Great Portland Street

Warren Street

King’s Cross

King’s Cross

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2015 - Present

Comparing these two maps of the polluted area in London and I figure the stations that are overground or the one that railway actually above the ground such as district and circle line isn’t that polluted. So I suggested that because the ventilation system is much better.

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I went to King’s Cross to survey the area and finding a potential site. I found that outdoor waiting area in front the station very interesting. I started to notice that people use this waiting area as a smoking area.

The majority of people who are waiting are actually inside where the timetable screens are.

Taken by Author, King’s Cross Station

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Taken by Author, King’s Cross Station

After the site research, I felt like there is a lot more to look at in King’s Cross and there are also more contexts to talk about. So I decided to look at the waiting area in King’s Cross.

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Collection of can and paper cup I found.

Collage by Author, King’s Cross Station

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Collection of cigarette butt I found on the floor.

Collage by Author, King’s Cross Station

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The first thing that hit me when I was there was cigarette smell. Especially for a non-smoker, I feel like this smell must be very sensitive. As soon as I started to look around, there are also a lot of cigarette butts left on the floor. There are coffee cups, alcohol cans, train ticket and etc. There are also people just eating their fast food next to a trash bin.

I felt like there are so many disgusting things around but people just ignore it because people just get used to the bad smell after a while. And especially in this space, people just come and go very quickly, so they didn’t really look after it.

I came up with this idea of Oxygen room. I was looking at the smell and the fresh air quality and also looking at lichen plant that only grow in a certain area with a certain air condition.

Sketch by Author, King’s Cross Station

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Sketch by Author, King’s Cross Station 50

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Sketch by Author, King’s Cross Station

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EXPERIMENTATION In this experiment chapter, I was looking at the different sense of smell both good and bad.

Making a box and try to capture smoke and smell.

Model by Author

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My second attempt at trying to capture smoke I built a smoker machine and burn some cigarette that I collect from the street.

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My third attempt, the smoke isn’t strong enough to go inside the bottle, so I took if the plastic tube and then cut a hole at the bottom of the box and using hair blow to blow up the smoke underneath the box.

Model by Author

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My fourth attempt I use e-cigarette and blow it into the plastic tube which I put it in the bottom of the bottle.

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A collection of smoke, dust and cigarettes.

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I used a storage jar with a silicone seal to keep the air inside. The smoke still disappears after a while but the form change to water instead. So the smell and the sir still kept inside just the form that’s changed.

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FILM MAKING PROCESS Scan the QR code for the movie.

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DAY 1

Ingredients - Cigarette

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Ingredients - Coffee - Jack Daniel with Coke - Gin and Tonic - Heavy Cream

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DAY 1 with cream

DAY 4 with cream

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Ingredients - Dust - Hair

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Ingredients - Banana - Orange - Lime - Goat cheese

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DAY 4

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INTERIM SHOW This film is part of my research into air pollution and to raise public awareness of it, by making the invisible, visible.

Photo by Author, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts

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Photo by Author, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts

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