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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 6, 20201 min read
Charting food and material flows
One of the aspects of my project that has taken a bit of time to work out is the phases of development, how this correlates with the food...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 11, 20205 min read
Fabric formwork physical modelling: reinforcement strategies tests
After testing out bracing, I've now moved back to the main set of physical testing, focused on fabric formwork. The latest aspect of the...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 19, 20202 min read
Bamboo bracing studies: physical models
Having roughly devised a strategy for bracing the bamboo against the tension of the fabric and the weight of the cast material, based on...
Oliver Haigh
Mar 12, 20202 min read
Semester 2 interim review
For this latest review, Nick had invited Ian Fletcher, a tutor in undergraduate architecture, to be our guest critic. Joe Mills...
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
Jan 30, 20202 min read
DS3 draft submission
Handing in DS3 marks the end of semester 1's work. Overall I was fairly happy with the work that I handed in for this draft submission....
Oliver Haigh
Jan 13, 20204 min read
Technology DSIT B submission
I have now submitted my Design Studio Integrated Technology B (DSIT B) report. This is the first of two technology modules which make up...
Oliver Haigh
Jan 11, 20202 min read
Formwork: fabric instead of rigid?
My explorations into using living bamboo as scaffolding to support rigid formwork for casting concrete have helped advance my project,...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 16, 20192 min read
Context Studies: Thesis – written submission
Submitting my Thesis concludes my Context Studies for the whole of this degree, after completing Stasis in the second semester of first...
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 8, 20192 min read
Representing time: flick book
I am now satisfied that film is the primary medium that I should use to convey time-based changes of the site. However, as architecture...
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 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...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 20, 20195 min read
Context Studies: Thesis – presentation
About four weeks before our final Context: Thesis written submission, we were required to present our work so far in a ten minute...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 18, 20191 min read
Geodesic physical model: reflection
This tandem physical modelling and computer modelling and drawing process has been a really useful way of initially testing the concept...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 16, 20191 min read
Geodesic physical model: casting
The final modules to do were to test and demonstrate the casting on formwork process. For this, I used a card formwork/mould, built from...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 14, 20191 min read
Geodesic physical model: applying formwork
The second module to construct was the formwork applied to the bamboo. To make this, I first of all laser-cut the net in mountboard. I...
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