Week 3

Two talker come to talk for this week class. Talk about how to have own business and the projector mapping.
I found it interesting listening to how to start own business.

On the 07th of Oct our group have a meeting about the propose project idea that we are going to proposed on the 20th of Oct. We have come to a point that we have all agree to do a design proposal. It is something like a early learning centre blocks that children can stack up the blocks and build their own building..

Each of us will design an individual items and will be made from actual Portland Stone, and could be place in the Tout Quarry. So the user can be interact with it. This building block can let the visitor to interact with it and build their own artifact of Portland Stone and Sculpture. At the end we have discuss every one will have some task to do over the week before the second meeting.

I was assign to look into which building (both in Leeds and Other area) that uses Portland Stone, as well as beginning to research different shape and designs the structure of it..

I have look into a few building that is build using the portland stone.



This is the British Museum in London. It is build using Portland Stone

This is the University College London Main Building. It is located at the end of Grafton Way. It is another Portland Stone Structure.









St. Paul Cathedral, London

This is the first purpose- built broadcast centre in the UK. The BBC Building - Broadcasting House.








For the considerations that I have look into are:
Highlight Issue:

1. Wide Demographic
2. Legal Issue
3. Ethical Issue

     Wide Demographic

• Target audience from age 5 - 80

    Legal Issues

• Plagiarism of the product
• extention of the sculpture idea combining the activity and arts.

     Ethical Issue

• product propose.
• The material of the product (build by portland stone)

Early Consideration:

1. Health and Safety
2. Idea

      Health and Safety

• The product is design to be made by portland stone so it cannot be too big & sharp. This is because it is the target audience is from age 5 so it is dangerous. 
• Limit the pieces that is on display table or limit the display cabinate
• Warning sign! ( to warn the children or the parent )

     Idea

• The design product will be design in 3D max and will be made by portland stone
• Designed with a stone sculptor

We have a few meeting this week. We discuss our initial task and also looked at the information we gathered. I have show what I have found and also the considerations and issue that our group will be facing. In the meeting Rob show us what he have found and I used the picture that he took from Leeds Town and build some examples of the pillar and arc. We also decide that each of us will do our own presentation and talk about what we have found and each of us have about 2 and a half minutes - 3 minutes to talk about our slide.


These are some easy model that I have done for next week presentation. These model is a draft model it is not a final model so it is not really good looking.  I am doing my presentation slide as well for my part. I am using perzi for my presentation. It is a good tool for presentation. I have also include the Highlight Issue, Early Considerations and also how are we going to present the final product.

Related Link:

http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/department/collections/RockRoom/building.htm

http://www.themonument.info/stone/

http://www.visitweymouth.co.uk/index.php?resource=287