Presentation

hey everyone

I think presentation went ok, and could do with alot more improvement, i think jess picked up on the main points, i agree with the points to improve, i also remember mike saying he wanted us to show a story of the site- show the character/ behaviour of the site to show its life/ lack of it more sumhow, i like the photo montage idea, and maybe you cud do a walking video around/ inside the site showing its state....??

He also mentioned that we shud add info about the key movement through the area- i.e. slaughter house stock etc. which we should all research

Anyways i've uploaded our presentations on to 'My Drive' its our 2GB on the net, so we can all upload videos, photos and anything else useful

http://www.mydrive.ch

Username: Group-3

Password: Mobility

Jess let us know wat research you got from site.....

Group Presentation

Hey everyone.

How did you feel the group presentation went?
What do we need to improve?
And when do we wanna do this?

My opinion was that we did ok, I think we hit most of the points but there were definately some areas to improve, and some areas to expand on which they really liked (such as Floriane's patterns and materials on site)

The things that I picked up from the feed back, and from speaking to Ian after, (he is writing up our groups crit) are:

-Likes florianes patterns of the site,
-Dislike cliche images (but this is easy to change) I think the idea is great but we need to find a better way to show it.
-Representing the data found. (we have loads of information but need to find ways to make them more visual and come to some conclusions about the information we have found)
-Similarly with the future developments they want us to really know them and critique them, and give our opinions on them) If we feel they fit with the site or not, ect!

More specifcally for the first point, I think we could expand this by, maybe photo montaging the images to scale onto a site map, this is want I want to start with today, I am going to go to site, do another walk, and photograph similar things, and note down where they are found, so that I can put together this photo montage, perhaps even a larger scale model, and montage the photos on to this and show our route some how!
So this is were I will start today..

I intend to go to site today, and do some more work, so if anyone wants to join me then thats great, just give me a text or a call!

These are just what i have have picked up on, im sure there were other points.
I hope you dont think im being pushy or anything, not my intention, just wanna get the most out of this year and im sure you do too,
I was thinking it is probably easyiest to chat about this on the blog rather than by email so I will post all this up there too!


Sorry its alot of writing!
Thanks jess

Stage 2

Hey every, Here is the spider diagram of my inital thoughts for this stage of the project!

Neil, do you think you can download that video, and we could possibly include it in our presentation!

See you all tomorrow!

BCU City Centre Campus: Phase 1

Hey again...this video illustrates how the new city centre campus should look after phase 1 is complete in 2013..after viewing the concept video's earlier last year i think that the way the design team have taken the overall look of the building to be quite complementary of surrounding digbeth and seems to fit in well with the historical context that surrounds whilst still keeping it quite modern through detailing and design..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rs8EsD4iHI

Neil

Eastside City Park

hey guys...amongst some of the other stuff i found on this development i came across this video that illustrates the proposal for the area around curzon street station

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WluyF9mBv3w&feature=player_embedded

Neil

Curzon Street

An Interesting link about Curzon Street

http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/Stations/curzon_street.php#

Curzon street History

Curzon Street Station was a railway station in Birmingham in the 19th century and is the world's oldest surviving piece of monumental railway architecture. It acted as the terminus for both the London and Birmingham Railway and the Grand Junction Railway, with lines connecting Birmingham to London and to Manchester and Liverpool respectively. The two companies had adjacent, parallel platforms but no through services were provided.
The station was opened in 1838, with the first train from London to Birmingham arriving on September 17. However, the railway station was inconveniently located on the eastern edge of Birmingham city centre. For this reason, its use as a passenger station was short-lived. When the London and North Western Railway was created in 1846, they decided to build a new joint station with the Midland Railway at New Street. It was about half a mile west of Curzon Street Station. When this was completed in 1854, Curzon Street ceased regular passenger use, although holiday excursions ran from the station until 1893. However, it remained in use as a goods station until its closure in 1966. The station was known simply as 'Birmingham' until November 1852, when the suffix 'Curzon Street' was added. A smaller goods station, Lawley Street Goods Station, was located to the east of the station.




The surviving entrance building, which was designed by Philip Hardwick and constructed in 1838, is three storeys tall but relatively small. The architecture is Roman inspired, following Hardwick's trip to Italy in 1818–19. It has tall pillars running up the front of the building, made out of a series of huge blocks of stone. The design mirrored the Euston Arch at the London end of the L&BR. As part of the original design, the building was to be flanked by two arches leading into the station, but excavations revealed that these were never built. The interior housed the booking hall, with a large iron balustraded stone staircase, a refreshment room and offices.
Adjacent to the station was Queen's Hotel. It was here that the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was established on 27 January 1847 with George Stephenson as its first president. A plaque commemorating the event is located inside the station building, as the hotel has since been demolished

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Street_railway_station