FA7036 - Notes - Architecture Session

Friday 15th January 2015

Architecture Session – External Narrative Spaces

Inter-disciplinary practices – new outcomes, paradigms, soft skills, skills that enable you to work in other sectors
‘Visitor experiences’
The ‘Hagues Project’ – regeneration of an area on London
Building workshop spaces
Re-populating landscapes with different structures
Think about sound (e.g. noise pollution) and lighting
In animation we look at how different surfaces respond to light/different space/volume of space
Moving on from rational spaces to spaces that evoke atmosphere
Think about repetition of forms with found objects to create urban landscapes
A lot of consultation work (masterplans) – animation is a valuable tool for photographic/animating architectural models and/or fly-throughs
Installation/exhibition design/set design (for film/theatre)
Ridley Scott (clip) – he totally transports us to another place (dystopian worlds)
Bladerunner – sci-fi/film noir hybrid
You can create a narrative/an order – in film you’re guiding the audience around a space
We can use time lapse/animate light/get some movement
Think beyond the buildings
Use camera phone to photograph the buildings
Look at Zaha Hedid (architect), who used napkins for the ‘Hague’s Dance’ exhibition
You can suggest a lot with sound – a good soundtrack is usually consisted of sounds that you shouldn’t notice, but they transport you to that space
Look at Staging Silence (Hans Op de Beeck) – not animation or film, it’s its own thing
The production values (inc. sound) make it feel much more expensive than it really is