Places and Spaces

Exam project 2023/24

Places and Spaces Brief

Places and spaces have inspired many artists, craftspeople and designers. Chinese architects designed gardens, courtyards, buildings and passageways to form different spaces and places within the Forbidden City, Beijing. Masons, stonecutters and carpenters used their skills to separate and connect the interior spaces in different ways in the TopkapI Palace in Istanbul. The public space, Gardens by the Bay, in Singapore was developed by landscape architects Grant Associates and architects WilkinsonEyre. Es Devlin creates large-scale public artworks and stage sculptures that combine light, music and language for specific spaces. David Korins designed the space on stage for the theatrical production of Hamilton.

Research relevant examples and produce your own interpretation in response to Places and spaces.

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3D Design

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3D design is a three dimensional design and make course.

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Here is the general breakdown of 3D design:

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AO1 - Research

AO2- Outcomes through experimentation

AO3- Recording and presentation

AO4- Final outcome

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AO4- Final Response

checklist

Title Page-

• Produce a title page for your construction project. Make sure it is a high resolution image and make sure your name is in front of the image.

Mind Map-

• The mind map needs to use these keywords; Products, people, places, materials, techniques. Using the branching technique make sure the words connect to the headings in the blue

Image Board-

• An image board is a collage of images linking to interesting images that are suitable for your project.

1st Artist Research page- produce a research page with:

• 1 picture of the designer
• 3 pictures of the designers 3D product, furniture, building
• A description of the designer and their work. Use keywords such as pattern,colour, texture, size, form, material, price

1st Outcome

• Produce a drawing, sketchup model, or physical outcome from wood/plastic/metal

2nd Research page

• 1 picture of the designer
• 3 pictures of the designers 3D product, furniture, building
• A description of the designer and their work. Use keywords such as pattern,colour, texture, size, form, material, price

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2nd Outcome

• Produce a drawing, sketchup model, or physical outcome from wood/plastic/metal

3rd Research Page

• 1 picture of the designer
• 3 pictures of the designers 3D product, furniture, building
• A description of the designer and their work. Use keywords such as pattern,colour, texture, size, form, material, price

3rd Outcome

• Produce a drawing, sketchup model, or physical outcome from wood/plastic/metal

4th Research Page

• 1 picture of the designer
• 3 pictures of the designers 3D product, furniture, building
• A description of the designer and their work. Use keywords such as pattern,colour, texture, size, form, material, price

4th Outcome

• Produce a drawing, sketchup model, or physical outcome from wood/plastic/metal

Mind Map

• A new mind map showing what you have learnt from your research

Observational Drawings and developments

• A variety of new drawings showing off your skills- these must be either original or adaptations. Remember at this stage you would have known the direction you are going down. Most students decide to go down a furniture route which is perfectly fine.

Final Ideas

• In full isometric or perspective draw out your final 3D design

Final practical

• Produce a final practical that is to scale and it is produced to a high level/standard.

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The Forbidden City, Beijing

The Forbidden City is the largest medieval palace architecture in the world, and was the main imperial palace of China's final two dynasties: the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1912) dynasties.

While most of the buildings in the Forbidden City are made from wood and have a similar style, its architecture is nevertheless rich in subtle variations and symbolism. It has some of the grandest and most historically significant buildings and features in China.

It covers a vast area, about 150,000 square meters, and includes about 980 buildings, so it can be hard to know what to look out for. To help you make the most of your visit, here are 10 of its architectural highlights to keep an eye out for.

https://www.chinahighlights.com/beijing/forbidden-city/architecture.htm

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/beijing/forbidden-city/architecture-character.htm

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Topkapı Palace, Istanbul

Topkapı is the subject of more colourful stories than most of the world's museums put together. Libidinous sultans, ambitious courtiers, beautiful concubines and scheming eunuchs lived and worked here between the 15th and 19th centuries when it was the court of the Ottoman empire. A visit to the palace's opulent pavilions, jewel-filled Treasury and sprawling Harem gives a fascinating glimpse into their lives.

Mehmet the Conqueror built the first stage of the palace shortly after the Conquest in 1453, and lived here until his death in 1481. Subsequent sultans lived in this rarefied environment until the 19th century, when they moved to the ostentatious European-style palaces they built on the shores of the Bosphorus.

Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

British architects Wilkinson Eyre and landscape architects Grant Associates have completed an enormous tropical garden in Singapore filled with tree-like towers, shell-shaped greenhouses and a 30-metre-high man-made waterfall

https://www.dezeen.com/2012/06/19/gardens-by-the-bay-by-grant-associates-and-wilkinson-eyre-architects/

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Es Devlin

Artist and stage designer, es devlin’s work explores biodiversity, linguistic diversity and collective ai-generated poetry. she views the audience as a temporary society and encourages profound cognitive shifts by inviting public participation in communal choral works. her canvas ranges from public sculptures and installations at various places around the globe.

She was the first female designer of the uk pavilion at expo 2020 and her practice was the subject of the netflix documentary series abstract: the art of design.

David Korins

In two decades of creating omnidirectional experiences, David Korins and his eponymous New York City based creative studio has reached millions of people globally by helping brands, institutions, and artists bring their stories to life.

David created the worlds for 25 Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning musicals Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Beetlejuice: The Musical, and in 2023 will open Here Lies Love and The Who’s Tommy.