Lecture with Rick Frankland - Dwelle - Thinking a little differently!

Throughout this lecture I learnt about the construction industry and what Rick Frankland has achieved throughout his career.

Rick Frankland is an architect as well as an Eco - building manufacturer urban designer for Dwelle, building house extensions and other things. Frankland has done lighting exhibits and lots of talks for a while to make money and a living.

Rick's Job in Dwelle is dabbling with images that create a house that's got big space, is modern and is eco-friendly. Whilst thinking about different materials that would be suitable to use to create these houses such as timber or oak for the frame of the building. Making the house highly insulated, giving it air - tight ventilation, plenty of light with solar shading and can re-cooperate renewal energy.

Rick and his team were on 'Grand designs Live' in 2009 and they had to represent this idea throughout a prototype of a house made out of wood like a shed. He won awards for this particular shed design and had received lots of interest for their new micro-building designs. However during the course of their development in the construction industry they came across a lot of problems' such as having no money and having to try to come up with solutions to make some. As they were going through some difficult times and still are now. They also came across many issues in making the building for instance, when cutting pieces of wood, they were cutting them too short as they got the measurements wrong and the gutters wouldn't fit because they were too short as well . The Dwelle team also found that when building the shed design inside the exhibition area things weren't working out. The construction of the prototype wasn't completely finished in time because there was a big digger in the way where they had to construct the design.

Here are some images;

A cut - away of the ModCell structure, showing timber frame and packed straw.

This is what the inside looks like of the prototype.

This is what the shed design would look like built outside 

At this moment in time of his career he is in the middle of producing a mobile home, using the three R's in producing an eco- sustainable home.

The three R's are; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and as a fourth maybe even Refuse. 

Here are some images of prefabricated mobile homes designed by dwelle.ing creating a much larger space for holiday homes. Which will provide a living room, a dining room and three bedrooms.

Furthermore, this year Dwelle have developed a high-tech modular housing solution for Grand designs live 2013 which has been talked about on BDE Podcast - buildings design expert.

 Here is a link to there page ; podcast-grand-designs-live-2013 which explains in more detail about this event.

Throughout the lecture the most important piece of advice Rick Frankland gave, when working with people as a team and in general is to always listen!

To finish with this quote that inspires Frankland throughout his progression of his career which helps him give a bit of a boost; 

By Confucious - I hear and I forget,
                          I see and I remember,
                          I do and I understand.

Self - Directed Project

This is progression of a project I started in the summer on scary stories, here are images of my work from my sketch book of processes I have been using which I will compose together to create an image that will reflect more sophistication and a more of an complete illustration for my book on 'The Bink Family'. A story which I have created with monsters that live in teepees in a village called 'Porkstock'. 

I am aiming to produce a children's book for ages 5-7 years old, representing events that might happen in real life that children and there families may come across, I am hoping children will relate to some of the feelings represented throughout the story and will hopefully help them cope with any anxieties they may start to have. For example; feeling scared and lonely as if they are always doing something wrong and don't want to upset there parents or make them angry.   

A lot of these theories are reflected and touched upon throughout my Journal which is a reflection of my own practise as well as investigating, psychologists, artists and theorists. 

Ink marks

Collages

Baby Bink's teddy bear

Teepee

More ink marks

Baby Bink

A collage for a landscape

Bink Character

Painted flowers 

Collage of a tree

A mixture of collage, ink and paint creating a landscape

Ink sketch of a tree

Exploring an ink sketch of nasty Tree monster bashing Grandad Bink on the head thinking about the expressions to use to get the feelings across that he is getting hurt. 

Collage of Grandad Bink

Collage of another Teepee

collage of a Bink chair

and a Bink Table

Nana and Grandad Binks Boat 

Police Boat in process

Here is a composition I am in the process of setting the scene on what the village of Porkstock will look like!

My aim is to create four double page spreads for my story, with a story board and mock up book.

Steve Byram

Steve Byram is a fine artist and a professional commercial artist which I have been exploring to widen my knowledge and understanding of the incredible use of Line that he uses throughout his compositions giving them more sophistication, this is what I am hoping to achieve throughout my own practise thinking about the weight and pressure I use when using a pencil or pen when creating a line.

Here a few examples of his work;

This Image is spine-tingling with the use of marks represented gives his character more of an edge, I have been creating rubbings of inanimate objects to create this same essence throughout my work. 

Here are a few images of My Own Work of rubbings I have made then producing them into something new;

These are Ink scratchings that i created using a wooden stick. 

(can also use like a tooth pick for finer lines)

This is a rubbing using charcoal smudging and using the side of it to create variant lines in this case I used my material to produce a texture for a fence.

Here are a few of my own images consisting of line and mark making.

This rubbing was created with the use charcoal making a rubbing of textures I found on a wall that I thought looked quite effective.  

And this image is a Background I created which I can use in various images which create a more subtle essence bringing other characters together that are in front of the background.

Materials I used to produce this are vintage papers and Gouache paints throughout the process of collage which was then painted over the top with white emulsion. 

Here Is an image from a website representing Steve Byram

Here is the web link:  Screw Gun Records

What is keeping me Motivated!

Andy Goldsworthy

This is an Artist suggested by my seven year old sister she told me that she was learning about him in school she said he does lots of models and she told me she saw a clip of him producing an art piece called a rain pattern. I was very impressed with the excitement she had telling me about this artist and the fact she had learnt someone new that I had never heard before. Its fantastic the things you can learn off little children.

This is a picture of Andy Goldsworthy Himself,

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculpture photographer, environmentalist and land artist. The materials Andy uses are mostly nature based for instance his works of art consists of leaves, mud, snow, pine cones,stones, twigs, brightly coloured flowers, icicles,thorns and lots lots more. 

 

This is the picture my sister was so excited about called the rain picture, this is where Andy lay on the floor whilst it rained then when the rained had stopped he had moved to find a dry shape of the outline of his body on the ground. Its Amazing who would of ever of thought of doing that.

His sculptures are rather quite interesting I especially enjoy these two sculptures based around trees and the forest this gives me good reference related to my project brief on Scary Stories, related to my Tree monsters.