10*10*10

10*10*10 - What exactly does that mean to you? I remember sitting down and thinking of probably the same things which are coming in your head right now; dimensions, codes, distance, equations. Basically everything related to math. And at the same time, it could mean a range of other things - is it a message, perhaps? The bottom line is, we were all baffled; it could literally reflect a plethora of ideas!

The first week was pretty much planned out for us. We worked on scale on the first day, experimenting with small, medium and big squares, putting them into different environments to photograph. For the large scale, we moved out a kilometre out of Chelsea, and went to Big Ben, London Eye and the River Thames, photographing each area we encountered, and the tube and bus stops to indicate distance. Continuing, we experimented with all sorts of materials, creating interesting surfaces. It was basically learning the properties of each material to see how they could be manipulated. We then moved onto something completely different; use/function. I took 10 photographs of people sitting down in different ways. This is where I got confused, and I think all of us were pretty much in the same situation; how does any of this relate to our project?! Finally, the brief explained it all. Taking into account 'to sit', I had to design a space to display that function. My inspiration, Zaha Hadid. I absolutely love her use of organic shapes to create such eye catching pieces. Keeping that in mind, I drew out a couple of human poses against those shapes and created a final structure in the end. I experimented with clay and wire, but in the end, created a pop out of the structure. In terms of context, I was thinking Millenium park in California, however I feel that it now just looks like a structure rather than a place to sit, hence I feel it would look better in a park for children to climb on. The crit was, as always, helpful. My ideas were appreciated, and yet work could be done on certain areas. I'm actually thinking to continue working the experiment I did, as I feel it is in someways better than my final model. It was definitely on the whole a challenging project.