Pages 31-40 in sketchbook.

Page 31:

This is the first page that I have created on the art exhibition that I visited in London. The exhibition '  creation from catastrophe '  showed different architectural projects on how architecture can help rebuild communities due to a man made or natural disaster, such as earthquakes and tsunamis.




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The first project  talks about the effects of the Tohuku earthquake that hit Japan in 2011, and ended up resulting in an ensuing tsunami. This project  was designed by 5 architects that wanted to make a difference in people's lives, not just for them but for the next grneration who were to live there. These architects were, Toyo Ito, Riken Yamamoto, Hiroshi Naito, Kengo Kuma and Kazuyo Sejima.


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The second project designed by the architects Toyoto Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto and Akihisa Hirata, talks about the tsunami that hit Japan in 2012. This was designed on a hill side so that residents would be able to watch over their cities rebirth. This project was also awarded the Golden Lion award for best national participation in the Japan pavilion at the at the 13th Venice architecture exhibition in 2012.


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The third project designed by Shigeru Ban and his humanitarian relief organisation voluntary architects network, talks about the Nepal earthquake in April 2015 which flattened entire villages. After this devastating disaster, a month later there was a major after shock which made matters worse for the already fragile infrastructure. Visiting this exhibition wasn't really what I expected however this still helped me understand more about the structure of architecture and different ways that it can be used.

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This is the cover that I created for my primary research on London using a panoramic photo that I had taken of one of the buildings that I walked past.





Page 36:

This is the  first drawing that I created on my London primary research. To create this drawing I used coloured pencils which I think worked really well as you can see a lot of detail within the drawing. I used lighter and darker colours to help add contrast to the drawing. I wouldn't change this as I feel that the drawing has good quality.



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I chose to recreate this image that I have taken of the Big Ben as I feel that it was taken at a good perspective and is on a slight angle.
I wanted to try something different with this drawing, so I decided to use charcoal to see what kind of effect it has as I hadn't used this yet throughout my research.  I really like the effect this as created as although the drawing is s little messy, I feel that this works well as it is quite a simplified drawing.


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For this page I recreated an image that I had taken of the London eye. I used pen to recreate this drawing as I liked the effect it  had created on previous drawings throughout my sketchbook research. I feel that this drawing turned out really well; the only thing about this drawing was that it took a really long time to create due to the use of media I had chosen to use. I wouldn't change this drawing as I feel really happy with the outcome.


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This is the cover photo that I created for my Manchester primary research using an image that I had taken of the view of some buildings in the distance.






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This is an image that I had taken of a pub on that I had found on my trip to Manchester.  I decided to recreate this image as you can see two very interesting buildings at the same time due to the perspective I had taken the photo at. I recreated this drawing using coloured pencils, however I don't really like this drawing as I feel that the quality isn't good enough. If I were to do this again I would try and use a different media such as oil pastels to see if it would create a better effect.