MArch: Reflective Journal

Oliver Haigh

May 10, 20203 min read

Natural growth as inspiration for site development

At the end of DS3, I had used the growth of bacteria in a petri dish as a visual analogy for how the site could develop in phases. Of...

Oliver Haigh

May 3, 20203 min read

Technology DSIT C submission

I have just submitted my Design Studio Integrated Technology C (DSIT C) report. This is the second component that makes up the MArch2...

Oliver Haigh

Mar 9, 20202 min read

Grasshopper as a tool for showing time and process through animation

Over the many hours spent putting together Grasshopper definitions to create the forms that I am proposing, including the indentations...

Oliver Haigh

Feb 21, 20202 min read

Rhino, Grasshopper and Revit tutorial with Adam Atraktzi

Nick arranged for Adam, who had been the guest critic for our final review of last semester, to come and give us some tuition on Rhino,...

Oliver Haigh

Dec 12, 20192 min read

Semester 1 final review

For the final review of the semester, I presented a few key conceptual things which had been present in the interim review, and then...

Oliver Haigh

Dec 6, 20193 min read

Representing time: film

Having decided a couple of weeks ago that my printing experiments hadn't provided the best solution for representing time, I wanted to...

Oliver Haigh

Dec 4, 20191 min read

Living bamboo physical model: reflection and drawings

Alongside the computer and physical models, I have also produced a series of sectional drawings to further illustrate this concept that...

Oliver Haigh

Nov 30, 20191 min read

Living bamboo physical model: computer modelling process

After spending quite a few hours in Rhino and Grasshopper, I have managed to write a Grasshopper definition which: Gives me cut patterns...

Oliver Haigh

Nov 25, 20193 min read

Representing time: reprographic experiments

Building on my work with historical maps, the first thing that I had decided that I needed to do was to redraw the maps that I had found...

Oliver Haigh

Nov 23, 20192 min read

Representing time: the need for cartographic graphic consistency

As has already been stated, a large part of my analysis of the site has been focused around the history of the site and how it has...