During week 2 of our easter break, my friends and I decided to visit the SAATHI Gallery as we had seen some things online that were displayed at the gallery’ which we thought would be applicable to our theme. However, when I had got there it wasn’t as I had expected. it did not have a lot of geometrical structures like it had advertised online however, I was still able to capture a couple inspirational structures designed by artist, Tillman Kaiser. During our visit, we also chilled a little bit in the gift shop, and whilst spending our time exploring the shop, I managed to find a few interesting sources though it did not entirely link to my thereat all. I managed to find some books which had many shapes and patterns which I could’ve maybe applied to my work e.g. window designs etc.

After this, we planned on going to Tate Modern.  I did not manage to find a lot which was again related to my theme at all but then again there were a lot of shapes and patterns which I thought I could’ve merged into my own work – I hope that I can develop my work, or even use these photos as. guide to improve/steal inspiration from.

We spent half of the day going around and visiting places until about 5pm. Some of us decided to go home, whilst some of  us decided to go bak to uni to do some work; which ended being a failed plan as we ended up sitting there clueless as we were all knackered, which turned into a few hours of us procrastinating watching movies.

SAATCHI Gallery

TATE MODERN

During the next few days, I used it to do some sketches which I attached in my sketchbook. At this point, this was when stared considering the interior’s floor plan and elevation and how I was going to present it as I am not the best at drawing 2 way angles perspectives – something which I will improve on. I also played about on sketchup, creating my first building using the architect Mario Cucinelle as inspiration which I was not too happy with. I did not like the way that my building was shaped, however I did like the constant repetition within the patterns that I had used though it started to look a little too much. Despite this, I think it was a good start in progressing my idea, and it was better to start somewhere than no where.

This week was both successful and unsuccessful yet again, as the trip to the galleries were not as inspirational as I hoped it would be, though the week was productive in terms of working within our sketchbook. Using what I have done this week I will continue to work on my initial ideas and improving it by practicing and experimenting more with sketch-up models, and using my elevation as a guide to create my building as the interior needs to be considered also when creating the exterior.