We met as a group for the first time in tutorial! We started to brian storm for our folie design with help from the project outline we came up with the following...
FOLIE DESIGN GUIDELINE
1. Your Folie needs to provide a space to help someone to learn.
2. The Folie has to be at least for two people.
3. The Folie has to fir within 5m x 5m x 5m bounding box.
Things that must be included in the design...
- The space should activate
- Emotion
- They want to do something in the space
- Something should signify the space - to create an icon
- A FOLIE AS AN INTERMEDIARY SPACE (NOT A DESTINATION)
- The folie should be in an appropriate location.
- The Design Function
- How do people occupy the folie and what do they do?
- How do they use the folie differently (time, season,
event)
- What can the folie provide for people in its proximity?
- How is it going to effect people in the long run?
- The Design Tectonic
- How is the folie anchored
- How is the folie assembled and composed?
- What is the most significant material feature?
- The Design Experience
- What do people see from with the folie?
- How do people see the folie in its geographical context?
- How do people experience the folie and how do you express
it?
After sitting down as a group and doing this brain storming exercise we decided to 1. Explore the sensory experience within our folie (a folie to help improve our other senses!) 2. Further research other ideas that we could uses as a key theme or concept that we could use for our folie!
SELF EXPLORATION
When I went home I did some research into different learning spaces. I came across a study that looked into the outcomes of heightening your other sense and how this increased your memory retention... see below...
One way to remember something easier is to get all your senses involved. Your mind is not aware of whether something is real or whether it is your imagination, it does not distinguish the difference. So this means you can act out scenarios in your minds, use your imagination to engage your heart and soul into whatever it is that you want to be learning. The more your emotions can come into play, the more your senses will become invigorated and the more the imagination is employed the more you be likely to remember. (http://www.aahh.com.au/resources/Learning_Tips.pdf)
After reading this i decided to explore the idea of sensory experience within our folie...
I wanted to form a shape that represented the old bunker! The dark dingyness of the bunker forces us when inside to concentrate on the tiniest bit of movement, the tiniest bit of sound, and the tiniest bit of life...
From this I explored the idea of integrating design into the walls and seats for increased sensory experience...
On the left hand side (of the page) I thought we could use a green wall with fragment foliage, and then other side have a series of cones to amplify the the sounds of people using the outer side of the folie....
<<<details on how the cones "should" work...
Closer view of the green wall with smelly foliage...
Thought I we could create a seat that works on hydraulics, moving up and down when people sit on them... not sure if it would work or if it would be comfortable...
<<Model of how the cone wall will look/work...
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