Copenhagen

Next week I’ll be in Copenhagen.
I’ll be there for my master exam for school.

School gave us the task to come up with an idea to experience Copenhagen.
Taking pictures is quite dull, so they want us to be creative.
I’ll be in Copenhagen for 124 hours. That’s why I made 124 Post-Its with messages.
I’ll stick them to things (buildings, bars, people,…) that are interesting in my opinion.
I make a TO DO list with the post-its.
They also fit in the theme I’m working with: temporary architecture -> The post-its can be taken away by other people, wind can blow them away or rain can spoil them down the drain, …
I took pictures of all the post-its and put them in a new blog.
When I’m in Copenhagen I’ll take another 124 pictures of the post-its, but ON location then.
You can find this 124 hour project at http://foundapostit.wordpress.com/

P.S. The messages on the post-its aren’t my design. I found them on To Do
So I’d like to say thanks to To Do

The making of

Water architecture

I’m brainstorming about the combination of water and architecture.
It’s going quite conceptual. For example building on a huge sponge to solve the water problem.
I think i’m getting quite stuck :-S

Explanation of the mapping

I guess I should also explain a bit the model we made.

First of all you can see a yellow line in the middle, that is the yellow tramline.
Next to it you can see a red line with shape-changes. It shows how far you can look when you’re sitting in the tram and you look left or right. For example, if there are houses next to you, you have a 4-5m view, but when there’s all of a sudden a side-street, you can look in the street and see 10-15m further.
Next to that you can see pictures, they show what you see when you look outside of the tram; houses, schools, the road, a bush, …
Over all that there are small black lines. They explain how fast the tram drives. Lines close to each other tell that the tram drives slow, if they’re far away from each other it tells that the tram drove fast.
The length of the several black blocks show how far the different stops are. If it’s a long block, the 2 stops are far away from each other and the other way around.
The height of the blocks are also different, they tell something about the topography of the different stops on the tramline.
The toothed sides of the blocks are difficult the explain. If you look at the pictures of the view you have when you look out of the tram, we cut around the roofs. That’s why the sides are also toothed.
The bricks in the middle of each block tell something about the population. We counted for each stop how many people there were, how old they were (approximately). We did this during the week, Saturday and Sunday and on 5 different moments (morning, noon, afternoon, evening and night)
On top of the bricks you can see light and dark pictures, they explain the light intensity on the tram. For example, if there were a lot of people it was quite dark on the tram, if there were no people on the tram (Sundaynight) it was very bright (artificial light on the tram)

DIfficult, but it tells a lot!

Mapping

Here you can see the final result of our mapping.
We mapped tramline 22 in our studencity Ghent.
Afterwards we put our research results and tramline in 3D.
The judges were very pleased and called our project “perfect”.

Cutting the wood

Indra, one of my friends and groupmembers is cutting the wood for our project.
In total we had to cut 90 pieces, to make a 3D diagram.
This was the very last piece, VICTORY!

Groupwork

As you already know we’re working on a groupproject.
The theoretical stuff is done and now we’re working on the model.
CHeck it on the pictures.
Pictures of the finished model very soon. The presentation is on Monday
We don’t have a workshop at school, we went to the carpenter store, BRICO, and cut the wood in the store

Plastic Dandy in Norwegian Magazine “Esthetique”

This week my Plastic Dandy Chair has been published in a Norwegian magazine called Esthetique.
Here are the pictures that my Norwegian friend Camilla sent me.

Mapping on the tram

As you already know we want to make an art-installation on the tram.
Now we’re doing some tests and cheking out a lot of technical stuff.
For example: How many people hop on and hop off, the light intension, the noise, …
Last week we took the tram a couple of 1000 times to check out all this.
Did you already know we’re crazy?

Lightweight constructions with a nylon stocking