I wanted to clad the exterior of my building in an exterior cladding. Initially I wasn't to sure what material to use for this so I looked into metal and glass as possibilities.
I found out copper is a commonly used material as its cheap, easily formed and can come in a range of colours and textures. It can also come as fragmented pieces as well as sheet metal. This would be perfect for my project in keeping with my ideas of fragments around the city.
Having this style will cover the brickwork and create a more impressive finish that relates to my project at the same time.

The Shell House, called Dorab Villa, in the cityt Bandra. A one storey structure, which measures around 9,000 square feet, while the property is spread over around 10,000 square feet. I find the reflection of the colours used in within the walls of the architecture more fascinating and aespheticaly pleasing rather then the actual theme of this building. This structure took my attension from the moulded shape, however eventhough the design is a unusual shape the rooms are  still aimed towards your everyday living activities, for example, a living room, and a dining room, as you can see fro the photos I have selected below.

As im looking into ways of combining architecture with transport, Ive been looking into bus stops. When you think of bus stops, personally I straight away think of your average, plain and simple shelter. After exploring other variations of bus stops designed around the world, it has opened up my mind into the extra ordinary idea of converting these structures into querky, amusing yet usable . The photos that I have chosen to display below, are just ones that I found to be inspiring in the way of practibility, fun and the use of the space for the intended purpose.

Swing Bus Stop

Leake Street also known as the "Banksy tunnel" is a road in Lambeth, London. It is about 300 metres long, runs off York Road and under the platforms and tracks of Waterloo station. The walls are decorated with graffiti - initially created during the "Cans Festival" organised by Banksy in 2008 May 3 to 5. A second edition of the Cans Festival on the August Bank Holiday week-end 2008.

Whatever the strict legal position may be, the ongoing creation of graffiti is certainly tolerated. Also graffiti is certainly tolerated in Leake Street because there are signs to specify the claim it is a legal wall.

I went to Leake Street because my idea encourage designated graffiti area so I wanted to have a look how this whole idea work in a big open spaces like on Leake Street.

A limited edition film was shown in certain cinema's around London, this film was created by the graffiti artist Banksy, called Exit through the gift shop. I heard about this film, and in turn went to watch it.
It is a shame that i cannot add a trailor of this film, so I can give more of an insight into what is about. However this documentry helped me to understand the goings on of the graffiti industry, being street art. It was fascintating to see how people began, showing me more into their world, the risks of doing what they do.

It gave me more of a taste into graffiti, as it portrayed it to be more of an clever, maybe political, or just for humourour to produce a contovercial statement. It gave more of a meaning, and understanding that will help me further my ideas and way of thinking in my project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJBdDSTbLw

In my design I wanted to involve Tv screen as the part of the graffiti gallery,but not just to place screens on the wall but on the cealing. Th e whole idea is to make teh gallery more interactive and involve people to look around and imagine what's going on on the ground floor durring paintig on the walls, so people could actually feel the climat of the street art.

I like querkyness of this graaffiti, this inspires me to create walls in my project, to encourage this type of behavior expressed through graffiti.

Urbanirony is the latest project by Polish artist and designer Krystian Czaplicki. The 24-year-old, also known as Truth, first came to our attention a year ago with his lichen-like 3D graffiti on the exterior of buildings in his hometown.
His latest project, curated by Piotr Stasiowski for the Wroclaw Gallery of Contemporary Art, is a series of bright red punctuation marks highlighting down-at-heel parts of the city – framing architectural fragments, stains and piles of rubbish.

This vending machine parcularly attracted attension through graffiti. Athough graffiti is illegal, it seems that its seems acceptable  as it becomes a form of art.
This idea  intrested me as you can just use the vending machine, and by placing it anywhere the surrounding area will suddenly become tranformed into an area of expression where anyone can exress there idea's.

While I was walking in my neighborhood I saw two examples of nature taking over buildings so as it is really relevant with the program of my building I decided to see if it looks better or not after all.

As those two buildings that I found are not that special and have not really detailed architecture I like that nature is starting to grow on them as it gives color and life on something alive. However I believe it is the building itself that makes the difference. I mean that in that situation I prefer the combination that nature creates to the building whilst if the building was really beautiful with unusual architecture I wouldn't prefer nature to "hide" that.

That made me conclude that people who are going to visit my building can be people who want to learn how to grow plants on building elements and people who want to avoid that.

The first architect's staircase that game me the idea for the staircase in my final model was Carlo Scarpa. I tried to find on the internet the staircase that I saw in a photocopy but I couldn't. So by searching on the website stairporn.com I found a staircase that looks like the one that Carlo Scarpa designed.


However I'm going to keep the material that I used in my previous staircases as well. So my final staircase is again made of timber.