This week we did another site visit as a class. Before the site visit I wrote a script to move someone through the space. I decided because of my focus on fictional space, that I would create a fictional character and write about her movie through the space. Below is my script.
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Rose wasn’t sure if she found the chaos of the city therapeutic or unsettling. She had spent so much time rushing between home and work with only point B in mind that she rarely noticed the rest of the concrete world existing around her. The imperfections and little lights of life that she hadn’t noticed before shone brightly in front of her.
As she crossed Fort Street towards Fort Lane she looked up, noticing how high the buildings scratched the sky above her head. She walked a fraction of the speed of the racing city around her towards the opening of Fort Lane. She stopped and took note of the narrow, long, and engulfing lane which had reminded her of the trench in Finding Nemo. She couldn’t decide if she was more Dory or Marlin in this scenario.
She moved cautiously into the negative space created by the two buildings on either side of her, noticing the arrangement of art and text that was splashed across either wall. She looked down at her feet, the path below her seemed to stretch out ahead of her and the exit at the end seemed to get farther and farther away. That wasn’t real, was it? No, it couldn’t be. That wouldn’t make sense. Maybe it was just the fear of confined spaces that was creeping into Rose’s thoughts.
Rose moved towards the building on her left, standing back to the wall to feel more grounded. She panned up and down the lane noticing the rush of people and cars passing her stationary body. She stepped away from the building behind her and spun around seven times in each direction. She stopped and wandered wearily towards the exit at the other end of the lane. The buildings wavered and above her head and her body lead and her feet followed as she stumbled through the space, disorientated, an illusion before her eyes.
After gaining her sense of balance and direction again, Rose travelled down the lane with more confidence. She weaved between cars and people, zig zagging between the two containing walls of the space before stopping outside Roxy. Rose moved towards the wall to the left of the entrance to the club. She placed her hands on the exposed brick, mapping the texture with her fingertips.
Rose slowly moved away from the wall, making her way wearily to the lowest point of the lane. She stopped in the middle of the lane before looking up; a familiar sight, something she could ground herself with anywhere; a brief moment of relief before she was yanked back to earth with the honk of a car horn.
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I got some good feedback on my script. I was told that it was very different but it made them stop and truly focus on what was required of them, making them read the script a few times.
While I was at the site I explored more of the surrounding interiors, specifically Imperial Lane. I made my way up the spiral staircase inside and noticed the dining space and as I went down stairs again noticed more indepth the dinning setup created just off Fort Lane.
This sparked an idea for my design. I want to create a temporary event space that has a list of scheduled events throughout the space of a week. My idea is to incorporate imperial Lane into a food even that takes place as part of my design. I never noticed the space much before but I really like the idea of using it as part of my design.
After exploring the space further I took some notes of some measurements and took some photos of an interesting surface in the area of my design (below).
What I found interesting about this brick wall is the patchwork style and the revealing of the brick behind the concrete. The patchwork style brick is similar to my transition model with the patchwork fabric.
Spatial Design by Ciara 