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"So in order to achieve clarity and be fully and positively engaged in what you're doing, you must (1) know the goal or outcome you're intending and (2) decide and take the next physical move to propel you in that direction."(David Allen)TheCASTLE participants werent as confused as it sounds...

theCASTLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11311468480304358798noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971680989070301787.post-20717623894061367662007-10-23T12:45:00.003+11:002007-10-23T15:54:29.123+11:00theCASTLE: Week 13

Week 13 dawned bright and early and we all arrived at the workshop again with some of the group not knowing what was decided in the previous weeks class. Luckily it was not too hard to explain and we divided into supposedly even groups to work on both the test rig and a 1:5 model. Hannah, Gabby and I chose to work on the little model and we were initially led on a merry dance by Ian, who wouldn’t

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theCASTLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11311468480304358798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971680989070301787.post-7117918735054720132007-10-23T12:44:00.002+11:002007-10-23T15:47:37.097+11:00theCASTLE: Week 12

Week 12 started as a 1:10 modelling class to try and reinterpret the diagrammatic conclusions that we got to last week. Kristy and I decided to work together and so we pooled some ideas and set to work on a model that demonstrated a tilt-up opening that allowed ventilation and light through, based on one of Geoff’s sketches. We were beavering away really enjoying using the materials and things

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Week 11 started off with the imminent threat of people coming to visit our class to see what we have done, which is always a good way of getting us going. We had several things to prepare, like a presentation of all our work so far (it had been at least 2 weeks since the last presentation) and the actual test rig to make it look presentable and like a lot of work. The people visiting were the

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Week 10 is slightly less memorable, partly because the elated atmosphere of the previous week’s achievement flattened out a lot, but also because I was quite sick, which gives me reason to think that I was quite quite sick because I cannot really remember what happened. The plan of action in the morning of week 10 was again peppered with questions of product choice and us making decisions about

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Week 9 started slowly, partly because we all turn up in dribs and drabs, but also because those people that missed the mid-week meeting had to have the reasoning behind the madness explained and understood before we could actually build the rig. I got chosen as spokesperson and tried to describe this new iteration we were about to embark on. A two part, sliding structure made from four U shapes

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theCASTLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11311468480304358798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971680989070301787.post-69546117797617776232007-10-23T12:40:00.002+11:002007-10-23T15:00:12.400+11:00theCASTLE: Week 8

Week 8 of the Castle was started with a discussion of the design that we could put forward to make a 1:1 iteration of our ideas in cardboard form. This discussion highlighted the fact that we spent a lot of time in diplomatic, circuitous talks with everybody not wanting to put forward any particular idea too strongly in case someone else thought that they were being bossy. It might in fact have

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From week 6 we came into the week 7 class directionless, but having had an enjoyable and informative exploration of some ideas. We knew that Andrew Maynard (whoever that guy was) was coming this week, but with only Ian and Robin to guide us, somehow it was decided that we would start making some torsion box panels to model up a one to one model of the Castle size, volume and form. We started off

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theCASTLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11311468480304358798noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3971680989070301787.post-54273914241456137172007-10-23T12:37:00.000+11:002007-10-23T14:31:50.195+11:00theCASTLE: Week 6

Week 6 Learning By Making class was highly anticipated because we had decided at the end of Week 5 that the time had come for us to explore actually making some models of what we thought the CASTLE should be. Ian suggested at the end of week 5 that we should all think about designs we would like to do and come ready to put together some 1:10 scale models of the spaces in week 6. Of course,

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Week 5:Week 5 was our presentations for The Castle and also the Self-Fab group. The Self-Fab group went first with their power points describing the competition brief that they were trying to meet. The competition was to choose your own site and problem to deal with, but to also use digital technology to inform your design. The group decided to choose Johannesburg, South Africa and the influx of

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Week 4:Early in the morning on Thursday, week 4, we walked over to Youth Futures to meet Lisa and to organise a bus out to our site visit to Ken Gourleys yacht. As often happens with this kind of thing, I had no idea who Ken Gourley was, and why we were going to see him particularly, but we hurtled out to Beauty Point in the Youth Futures bus, chatting to Lisa about our respective times in Mumbai

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Week 3:At the start of week 3, we had a presentation from Steven who was partly involved in the design of a light-weight accommodation pod for Tarkine Trails bushwalking company, who run 6 day walks through the Tarkine National Park, which is in north west Tasmania. The pod proposals for Tarkine are needed because the frequency of walks is increasing in the Park and environmental degradation is

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Brainstorming ideas for theCASTLE is circuitous, convoluted and confusing!Our comic for Youth Futures, mentioned below, to try and initiate some discussion about what theCASTLE is and when someone might need one!

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Some snaps from the lovely Youth Futures over the road from the School of Architecture. Below: The posters made for Youth Futures (for some electronic reason the colours have been inverted -why I dont know!).

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Week 2 started with discussion as well as reintroduction to what might be the process and outcomes of the Castle project this semester. The Castle is an unknown quantity, and we established that visits to the clients and some expanded conversation on what the brief entails, would be necessary for us to move forward. Our first visit in the morning was to Student Works, a high school alternative

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Phase 1 of the CASTLE: To test, research and explore the basis behind the CASTLE project, the needs of the users and the expectations of the participating organisations; Youth Futures (providing emergency accomodation and employment solutions for displaced youth and adults) and StudentWorks (providing high school students a school alternative to learn trade skills to benifit their employment

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