Our first project in material matters was to design a pavilion which will be located at the waterfront in our chosen location that will reflect the city.
I started off by drawing some pictures of the surrounding area at the waterfront and getting a sense of what is there and what is going to be there in the future.
I decided to base the development of my pavilion on maps and areal views and really play around with these to create a design and structure
I started looking at Daniel Libeskind’s work and after looking at his mapping techniques I decided to try this out for myself and see if I could create a design for the pavilion this way by linking the mapping back to Dundee somehow.
I started looking at bus stops in Dundee and looked at the shapes I could create by using them as a kind of outline. I also looked at the development area and all the buildings included and thought about the shapes that could be created with that too…
In the end I decided to look at the above.. and then I thought about layering them on top of each other and see what would come out from it…
Once layering these all together I began adding lines to outline areas and continue a flow of craziness attempting to create my own matrix like Daniel Libeskind. With this final image I managed to create a structure using the thicker lines as the walls, the fine lines as roof poles and the dots would create the shape of the roof.
I decided to use oxidised steel as my material because it is bold bright and stands out. I want my pavilion to be present right now while all of the construction is taking place and it will be located beside the discovery ship at the waterfront so it will be beside all of the building machinery and construction. My reason for this is that I know that many people traveling over the bridges see the work being done and think it looks terrible, but I want to embrace the look of this work and wanted to design something that fits in with the machinery but at the same time stands out. That way when people travel over the bridges instead of thinking that the waterfront looks terrible they will notice my pavilion and wonder what it is, be intrigued and embrace the beauty that can come from cranes and other working machinery. The pipes and sheet that build the roofing will be made from mild steel to work with the rest of the structure without being too much rust.
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