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The design projectInitial ideasHolly Newnham on the concept behind her project:
I wish to explore the idea of control and manipulation that
runs throughout the play. Characters are hidden, secrets and
lies are revealed and things are seldom as they seem. My
initial ideas explore the physical realities of these themes
through a stage set that allows visible change through the
duration of the show: a rotating stage where characters can
be concealed, a timber structure with varying levels and
openings. At the moment it is too static and I strive for
a design that responds to its open air surroundings.
Ralph Saull on the use of diagrams to explain ideas:
Design by diagram: developing a diagram which summarises
the design is necessary for sustaining direction, but is it
inhibiting? Does it act as an intrinsic veto vote against original
thoughts that at an earlier stage may have made the mind
swim with possibilities? Perhaps this aide-memoire acts as
blinkers to the creative mind. If you didn’t wear them it is
likely that you would end up with a mass of ideas, each only
pursued as far as they held their novelty.
Anna Beer describes the use of a modelling method to
analyse the site that inspired the form of the building
proposal:
Exploring the possibilities of a loom, changing material,
tension, boundary widths, and rhythm. Although the loom
models were just for experimenting, I started applying
certain characteristics of the site to them: Boundary A
was a constant, fixed rhythm representing the fence on-site;
B was a variable. I had in mind that in relation to the site,
these random points might represent trees.Text
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