mondrian research and evaluation of final design.

this was a direct influence in my bus station idea because i wanted to have a design which incorporated bright colours as in my curtain wall designs it had to be shades of grey. 

this is my final design and i went for a stylised approach to the looks of both the bus station and the civic sculpture. also the lines of each aren't blocky they are swept so it looks as if its 3D. i chose the bus station and the sculpture because it promotes how worksop is evolving in the art industry. 

Bus station sketch book work

These are my sketches. They started with experimenting with how I could make the turbine an interesting style and shape and then escalated into a form of typography where I would use the word WRKSP so it would be directly related to worksop  

More bus station sketches

This is the abstract bus station x sculpture design pre-illustrature. It's an stylised interpretation of what the sculpture and the station look like. 

Bus station sketches

These are a few of my sketches. You can see from these 3 key point my thought process. 

Originally I set out to try and make a developed and stylised looking turbine. There was a few designs where I experimented with the shape and size of both the blades and base of the turbine. When doing this i then realised that turbines were to generic and didn't specifically pin point worksop. to solve this i tried to add a message or some kind of text to give it a personal touch to worksop. i then tried combining my previous graffiti designs into this one which was effective but it also didn't specify worksop to then solve this dilemma i looked at some of workshops most interesting buildings architecturally. this then lead me to places such as, the old water tower, savoy cinema, the river side pub and some more recent things such as the civic sculpture and newcastle road bus station, where the design could be showcased. i then looked at different forms of typography and realised that typography is based around words making shapes, i then thought to myself why not the other way around?

let the building/object make the word! 

i began by choosing the word or phrase i would be using. this word was vital to my whole design as it would determine how successful the piece would be. it would have to directly sum up worksop and be snappy enough to draw viewers into the piece. i settled for just trying to incorporate worksop as the word but taking away the O's as they would be repetitive. 

in my design i chose to use the cinema, sculpture and the tower as the W. the water tower, the river bridge form the view at river side pub and some clouds to make the R. a river turning into a road as the S. the curve of the gustation roof and wall to make a P and i used a normal bold K so the viewer wouldn't get put off by the image and would look closer into the piece.     

Worksop Bus Station - Paul Horn Interview

Paul Horn came in today and spoke to use about the Worksop bus station build. When interviewing him, he didn't really put many parameters on what we could do other than the back lighting which he said would be bog standard and plain. He also mentioned how they are putting coloured seats inside and he was keen to tell me he would like the colours of the curtain walling to compliment the colours inside.
Personally, I think with him not putting any parameters on the design it will be really hard to find my feet with the starting stages of the project however, once I've started to get into the project more my idea will get stronger and stronger as the project goes on. I am also interested to see what other clues he is willing to hint at as the project gets closer to the dead line.