Semester 2 archive
This page forms a brief archive of the previous semester build up to 'Project Mayhem' and the a brief discussion as to process of decision and design.
Corrie Graham - Michael Posso
Green Groyne - Portobello Beach
To explore ways of drawing edges and boundaries in a wet landscape, castings were made of the beach table. These castings replicated a clay- like crafted from the every imprint and relief moment, evoking a paper architecture to emerge.
During a visiting critique by Anarudha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha, mud-tasting was discussed. The tongue is the most sensitive part of the body therefore it is used to determine how fine mud samples are. The Casting Desk (adjacent page) tested conditions of ground with this discussion in mind.
Green Groyne - Portobello Beach, Edinburgh
The Beach Table tests the initial principles of scale of Project Mayhem. Like the Tallah Tank, the task was to anchor oneself in a malleable and wet landscape through the design of a desk in Portobello Beach, Edinburgh. The desk was designed at a body scale, but was part of a much wider landscape, that of a temporal nature. Project Mayhem also exists in the temporal nature of its climate and social environment in Kolkata, that of monsoon & drought, privilege and slum, Ganga and Tallah.
Image above: Drawing through the delicate gathering of material alongside a groyne
Model exploring the delicate gathering of structure along a groyne
Programming the Negative of the Beach Casting table
As the drawings started to evolve from all the incidentally noticed through the cast and pressed models, the beach imprint plan at 1:100 started to take form, arranging an architecture of identified contour and 'edge' upon the surface of each material.
1:50 Section - Forming a structure through the craft and contouring of the Beach table ground condition drawing
Developing the Auction House
The Auction House forms a level 'slab' of negotiation and renegotiation situated upon the bourgeois playground of Lake Rabindra sabora. The building is to form a series of wooden stakes amongst the 'soaked' landscape and waters edge. providing a shelter from the rain and a series of wet and dry spaces for either rich trade or dry sale. The programme aims to provide a democratic situation of folk amongst the enriched deck that is the auction house and fish market.
