AMY F. DOCHERTY ARCHITECTURE

After yesterdays discussion with Richard, we had come to an initial idea for our 1:1 artefact. This gave us a palette of materials to...

Having received the Mezuzah I ordered in the post, I decided this morning to create a negative mould of it by using the silicone putty I...

Having filmed a short video with the wax poured handle and further researched Materiality, I was intrigued by the idea of changing the...

Traces of use is common theme which has frequently come up during my design thesis research into subjects such as materiality and...

Having spent a few days working independently, Richard and I had a discussion to try to understand the direction in which our experiments...

Al Furqan Mosque: Plan and Trajectory The interstitial spaces unwrapped as a trajectory, show the clarity of procession through Islamic...

Having followed several lines of enquiry into the thresholds of the buildings selection across the Islamic, Jewish, Christian and...

To understand better the way in which our investigations overlapped, Richard and I had a discussion at length about Materiality and the...

During reading week, I added continued to create a reflective portfolio to collate and archive work produced in a way which ensured a...

To continue working on my reflective portfolio, I spent a few hours taking new photographs for the previous weeks work. It was...

A range of the spaces and thresholds were examined to allow for the comparison of the sequence of spaces in each religious and secular...

After discovering the size of thresholds varied dramatically dependant on the building and its use, I began to model them in SketchUp...

Continuing yesterdays modelling of the thresholds of the site, including the space behind the doors when the threshold between public and...

Having spent a day identifying and sketching thresholds of buildings on the site, I spent the day modelling 1:20 scale doors and...

To gain an understanding of the doorways and thresholds of buildings on the site, I began a 1:20 sketch study into several doorways of...

End of week three, beginning of week four tutorial to present our group work and be understand the outcomes and objectives for week four....

After filming for around 2 hours on Thursday, I spent a couple of days working on producing the film to be projected over our group model...

After a couple of days planning, risk assessing and formatting information/contact sheets, I took a 4K Handycam to Coatsworth Road to...

Taking a one week map of the street and surrounding areas lead me to wish to further understand the movements, religions and rituals of...

The mapping strategy currently regards movement as a community through street spaces. To add a further scale to this, the personal scale...