Final Project..

My final end of year project is an Architectural Renovation Portfolio. I have taken an existing building and have decided to renovate, extend and make it adaptable to its owners. Here are my first stages.

This is the house as it exists now. It is a 5 bedroom detached house that was built in 1984. the front is made to have the image of a 'bungalow' as it had to fit in with the other houses already built but from the back it looks like a 3 storey house.

Web Design..

Glossary

Web Browser - a program used to view HTML documents

 

URL -  Uniform (or universal) resource locator, the address of a World Wide Web page

History - A record of web pages that you have visited in the past. Most web browsers allow you to view and manage your history from within the browser itself

Defaults -  an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified

Reload  -  Generally, to update something with new data. For example, some Web browsers include a refresh button that updates the currently displayed Web pages. This feature is also called reload.  

Download -  Downloading is the process of copying files to your computer from a remote location, for example from a server. When you view a webpage, text files, images, and other media types (such as audio and video files) are downloaded to your computer from a server across the Internet.

Upload -  uploading, can refer to the sending of data from a local system to a remote system such as a server or another client with the intent that the remote system should store a copy of the data being transferred, or the initiation of such a process.

Cookies -  A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user's browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site

Bookmarks -  A record of the address of a file, Web page, or other data used to enable quick access by a user

Servers Local - A predefined server that designates the current computer to run the Integration Flow Designer.

Remote -  In computer networking, a server is simply a program that operates as a socket listener . The term server is also often generalized to describe a host that is deployed to execute one or more such programs

File Sharing -  File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digitally stored information, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images, and video), documents, or electronic books. It may be implemented through a variety of ways.

Email -  Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks.

Eccomerce -  Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, ecommerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.

VOIP -  Voice over Internet protocol, a communications protocol that allows for telephonic communication via the Internet

HTML -  Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages

XHTML -  Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, an HTML system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages, incorporating user-defined elements

DHTML -  Dynamic HTML, a collection of Web browser enhancements that enable dynamic and interactive features on Web pages

Javascript -  A programming language designed to be interpreted by a Web browser. The statements in the language can be made part of an HTML source file to enable some interactive features such as mouse clicks and input to forms.

CSS -  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL.

Flash - Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to Web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games.

This is one of my first ideas for my webpage. The main theme being a city scene in black and white. I have decided to use black and white as the work i will be posting on top of it will stand out a lot better than if it was on a plain white background.

New Web Page Design

Web Design..



Kerkythea Wartime Picture Theatre

Inspiration - Glass Mood Board

To show off my beginner skills using CAD programs I had to design and create an architectural model using the computer. Firstly i created a moodboard full of a few images that were to inspire my design. Glass was the main feature material I chose and that helped me decide that i wanted to insert a glass structure into something that is already standing.



Picture Theatre Learning Centre



Picture Theatre Learning Centre 2



Picture Theatre Learning Centre 3



Inspirational Quote..

The public space is born and grows with us, it shifts and develops in time, geography, volume and colour.

Like a lighthouse on the coast we need to place points of reference in our lives that will help us to fix, like the base of a perfume, the most fleeting scents and swiftest sparkles.

Art in public places should help to fix the impalpable, fleeting beauty, the perfume of our memory.

Chicago 2002, Aeneas Wilder 

Comments Would be Appreciated!

Being a willing college student there is nothing i would appreciate more than to have comments on my posts. Entering the big wide world is daunting for everyone but I would appreciate it is people would leave a comment on what they think about my opinions and my work! Thankyou.

Architecture

For a recent college project, I designed a set of crockery that could be used in the commercial industry or even sold for people to use at home. The brief told me to pick an Architect and then use elements of the Architects style to design a crockery set that reflects it. 

First I researched different Architects..

This was a very interesting part for me as one of my main interests in the design world is Architecture. I love the different styles and shapes that modern Architects use and then I also like paying close attention to the mixing of era's in buildings. 

A few Architects..

Richard Meier

Daniel Libeskind - Denver Art Museum

Frank Gehry - Disney Concert Hall

I researched a few Architects and built up a database of my own consisting of building I like and then other I didn't like as much but still had interesting styles.

I chose Richard Meier.. He creates modern buildings with a very clean and simple aesthetic feel, but still manages to make them functional and modernist.

So i took the buildings and information and created my Crockery Set..

Computer Generated Using Google SketchUp..

If you analyse the Richard Meier Image I have posted above the front of the building looks as though it is a separate panel that has been 'attached' the the main structure. His building are mainly white and have a simple collection of shapes, almost as if the only shapes he knows are Square, Circle and Triangle..

I created a set using the same principle he does, 'accommodating only what it need to accommodate.' I read this among one of his articles.

Comments would be appreciated! 

Bauhaus Design in Pictures

Bauhaus Design Movement

I take a strong Interest in the Bauhaus design movement. It is very simple but at the same time very inspirational. Some of the designs are modern today and are starting to come more dominant in the design world, even though in some cases they could of been designed over 80 years ago. For example.. the door handles that can be seen on the presentation toward the end of the page, they are dated, but if you look closely next time your in B&Q or somewhere similar, you will probably find one lurking around on one of the shelves.

Reference: Bauhaus Pres.

A Bauhaus Quote..

'form follows function'

Photography

Kefalonia, Greece, 2010, Village of Lourdas
10:30am

Kefalonia, Greece, 2010, Village of Lourdas
Time: 10:30am

Kefalonia, Greece, 2010, Village of Lourdas
Time: 6:30pm

The Deep Aquarium, Hull
1:00pm

Portrait Photography - Reflections

Portrait Photography

Bauhaus Leaflet..

Being a fan of the Bauhaus Movement, I choose to base a lot of my work around it. in this instance we had to create a leaflet, and i chose Bauhaus.

Feel free to print these and use for yourself..