Finally finished with History and Culture!!

Handed in my second H&C essay today, o what a happy day it was! i can not think of a worse subject than history! It is something that haunted me since high school! However i did not find it that bad at uni, guess it was down to the fact it was about something i find generally very interesting. I forgot to mention once again with my youthfulness n stupidity i left this essay to the final day as well! I feel that i done pretty well though, last time he said i did not read the text thoroughly enough and needed more quotes to back up my points, well this time i use 3x as many quotes and not jus rubbish random ones! i feel i have progressed well but were going to have to wait and see...

Practice profile...West8

This is my powerpoint for my practice profile. It may look a bit empty and lacklustre, and i do agree, however my powerpoint was not the most important part of my presentation..I felt that talking freely and having a longer q&a period would be better! However a lot of people before me talked about West8 already and i was left with little to talk about that had not been mentioned already..I think i learned that in these circumstances i should try and go 1st so i can talk about what i really want! lesson learnt i guess.

That damn PDP...

Just handed in my PDP, what a long procedure that piece of work was! I feel it was kind of relevant and useful, in the sense that it brings to your attention what you are good at and what you need to improve. However as a piece of work that needs to be submitted i feel we could have done something a lot more useful with the time! I'm just glad to have got that out of the way really...

Another presentation bites the dust!!

Yep another presentation! Sustainability this time. I am pretty sure this did not go well at all..our efforts for this presentation were lackluster! The contents of our presentation were good however we simply did not have enough of it! We also lacked a thorough understanding of what we were supposed to do resulting in us missing out on presenting some vital information we had in our slide show...we got to work harder next time team!

Liverpool, New Brighton

This is the starting point of my route to the site where this project is based. I chose to start the the towns train station!

I like photographs that are low down on the ground..This is at the top of the high street next to the train station. This area was not really anything interesting.

Waterloo road! This is the road that links the high street to my site for this project! I love old road signs like this, unfortunately there scattered around the side roads these days...

This is the Castle that sits opposite my site. Its a focal point in my design, a place that i feel can be very interesting. Incorporating this into my design will be my main focus, i think this can unlock the potential that this area really has!

Jaspal just looking across the water. I felt showing this picture can show how deprived and un important this area really is. You can see the outdated banisters, not only is the design rather depressing and boring but it clearly is not cared for, the paint has chipped all over the place and its as if nobody cares..to be brutally honest i can understand why, the area does not really have anything going for it.

Liverpool trip! Manchester...

This is a piece of art i think :confused: it was very interesting to see such a thing in the middle of a shopping area, it really proved that the whole had been renovated! It gave a nice separation to the hectic shopping area! It was kind of dangerous though! The individual things were not attached to the ground, they rocked when i tried walking across! Maybe i was not supposed to do that..

It looked amazing from every angle! I really liked this piece of functional artistic sculpture, to put this kind of thing in they landscaper design worked really effectively, I'm going to consider things like this in the future if i feel its appropriate.

This was another piece of clever Landscape design. It was a sort of extended bench right in the middle of a square..At first i thought it was so odd but it made sense, it was a clever use of the space as it allowed the people from the area to come and enjoy their breaks in a visually nice place. The seating feature itself was nicely designed as well it its raised and cut in areas, i liked this a lot!

Looks like Fahin is having fun on the bench, i felt it looked like a surf board so i asked him to jump up for a photo!i thought the design of the bench was interesting, i didn't see how it fitted in with the area however, but it was aesthetic.

This is a photo of me feeling sorry for my poor feet! i decided to buy shoes that were tight cause they did not have my size and then wear them on a long walk, how stupid of me!

Final brief!

I have been waiting for this day a long time now! Can't believe it is actually here now..so what is the final brief? We have to create some kind of public space or feature where our route from town meets our site. We can do what ever we wish within reason! This should be interesting for sure, i wonder what i will choose to do! i wanna get stuck in straight away...