Fabricated Heritage, Kingston

Fabricated heritage, Kingston

Brief: to create an interactive outdoor sculpture that represents Kingstons extensive history.

My design looks at Kingstons former prisons, creating a space that playfully reflects the constrictive and enclosed nature of a prison cell.

1.0 SITE ANALYSIS

1.0 - Understanding the extensive history behind Kingston and its former prisons through a visual timeline.

2.0

2.0 - 'Blind Date Bench'. Working as a group, we were tasked with designing an interactive piece of furniture that focused around the idea of adapting ones senses. The bench starts opposing, and once ready, the pair can open the bench and see each other in person.

3.0

3.0 - our initial design, creating an elaborated version of the blind date bench - looking at ways to adapt sight both physically and through lighting and shadow.

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

4.0 - continued refinement and development, reducing the amount of material used and focusing in on change of shape to reflect the idea of confinement.

4.0

5.0

5.0 - physical model making to understand the structure of the installation and the number of beams needed to make it to 1:1 scale.

6.0

6.0 - 1:1 physical model creation, designing a portion of the model and looking at various types of joinery and stability.

REFINEMENT AND FINALISATIONS

7.0

7.0 - 1:100 plans of the further refined proposal. Extending the installation to fully draw in the idea of confinement both visually with the cladding, and physically with the sloping roof.