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2- Barriers & Facilitators: spatial diagram exploring the different methods of moving throughout the site and that which facilitates or blocks this movement.
3- Site Analysis: hand drawing, digital photo and collage investigating the sites topography.
4&5 – Architectural interventions designed to enhance the function of the bench as well as its visual language. Practical prototypes from sheet timber and steel.
6- Assessing the Approach: spatial diagram exploring the different ways skateboarders can use the bench, compared to passing pedestrians, as well as the considerations needed for each approach.
7- Co-Design: with this being a user-led project set within the public realm it was essential to engage with the local community, across a range of experience levels, on what should be designed. This took place both through live skate sessions as well as a co-design workshop within V&A Dundee.
8- Sketching in 3D: this project has encompassed a range of methods and media but creating sketch models, objects and prototypes has been a key factor in this project. From small card models to 1:2 scale welded prototypes, making has been integral to the project.
9- Modularity and Adaptability: to allow sessions at the V&A to happen the furniture and obstacles had to be transported to and from the space each time, and due to this there was a need for modular and adaptable structures. With hollow section mild steel and sheet timber a bench can be broken up and arranged into different sequences for a variety of functions, and with the addition of more steel, timber and brackets the bench can become a variety of shelters.
10- WIP: Full scale bench in progress. Please continue to follow my social media and website to see the process and completion of these benches, as well as (hopefully) the reignition and of the skate sessions after lockdown.
Thesis Magazine:
https://www.mfied.com/v-allie-thesis-project
Prize Winner - Wooosh Award for Outstanding Floor Work
The winner of The Wooosh Award for Outstanding Floor Work is granted a solo floor-based exhibition at Wooosh Gallery
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