Week 5: Pitch

Formative Assessment + Pitch

As a photographer, the concept of looking into a camera’s viewfinder has always been an interesting subject, playing with different angles and levels through my perspective. Sometimes there is too much subject matter, making it difficult to choose what to shoot. For example, Fort Lane feels dense and cluttered given the high buildings and uneven grounds that make up the site. Upon entering, we only have access to one perspective; the eye level, often looking upwards towards the red line that travels through the lane. It is difficult on Fort Lane and Fort Street to stop, and look at our surroundings due to the oncoming traffic. If only I could get a better look at the site.

A folly is a structure created with no designated purpose, leaving it to the interpreter to gain autonomy for how they use the structure. Perhaps a folly could be used to our own advantage.

To pause is to stop momentarily. During those moments, you may notice the little doodle on the wall. Or the perfectly asymmetrical buildings. Things you wouldn’t notice when scurrying from A to B.

You might start to notice the shadows of walking pedestrians, or how the sun is perfectly framed between two buildings.

If you stand at the same spot long enough, you might notice the light travel through from one building to another.

Everyone will have a different experience even if you all stood in the same area. It is dependent on the composition, angles, levels, apertures, and direction.

What if we retrace back to Fort Lane and look again with a new perspective. How does it look sitting down? Or above a few steps?

What if there were more steps. How do the shadows travel through the space? How has the space changed with those extra steps?

My design for a folly offers a new perspective for city dwellers, encouraging them to pause, take a break from the hustle of the city, and become a spectator in their habitat, positioning themselves on high ground to look over the intersection of Fort Lane and Fort Street. Maybe even enjoy your lunch break with a temporary new view.

Feedback

• The current render and the models provided (refined model and surface design) are a bit disconnected, they do not match together at this stage
• Physical Folly
  • As of now, the design is quite flat. To play on that idea of aperture and composition, I could extrude out some balconies on the other side of the folly (the side that faces Fort Lane) to reposition the viewer more
  • The refined surfaces indicates the folly could be a playful design. Having options to walk up the stairs, climb up ladders, slide down slopes possibly
  • e.g. fire escapes
  • Not just having one linear way of moving through the folly
  • Instead of only creating vertical viewpoints, consider horizontal viewpoints too. For example, the images created from horizontal surfaces like puddles
• Construction
  • Consideration of a modular design (a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts with can be independently modified, such as legos). This could be more autonomous to visitors
  • Deconstruct the folly, then reconstruct it. How do they assemble and work together?
• Temporary installation = scaffolding to indicate the temporal aspect
• How does the folly respond to the other buildings?
• Take closeup shots of my models, how do they respond to light? For example, what if two parts intersected and became transparent?

Reflection

Upon hearing my feedback, I was inspired to think of ways to make my design more playful.
How would I make it so that there were more options to travel through the folly?
How would I make this design modular in a way there is more interaction and directing in the space, aside from just moving and viewing
What should the scale of the folly be if I were to extrude its initial flat surface? How will this be built?
What materials should I be using considering this is a temporary installation? What materials would be suitable for the atmosphere I am going for?
I quite enjoy the idea of creating a folly with a scaffold-like appearance, indicating a cinematic scaffold that is never complete, always changing, developing, moving.