Humayrah Hafeji

Unit 7: Architectural Forensics In Anonymous Mosters

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Can we build a complete wiring diagram of the human brain?

Imagine for a moment if we could build a complete wiring diagram of a human brain – to map in detail every one of the hundred trillion or so synapses and roughly hundred billion neurons together with all the tiniest supporting mechanisms. What might that mean, and would it even be possible?

From investigating the link between sound and light, I began using colour to represent the sound levels and light intensity that I took from site. I was interested in looking further into light and shadows and exploring the  psychological link it has, so how the light in an open space can affect the way we percieve the environment around us, and how we feel about certain aspects in the space we are situated in. Lighting can help create excitement in a themed environment. Lighting can help a person navigate through a new space.  And, lighting can cause us to strongly dislike a room which we would otherwise find appealing. How does our mind process the visual stimulus to produce these sorts of responses? What do we understand today about the way that we light buildings that enables us to link the stimulus of a lighted environment to the full array of cognitive and emotional human responses? 

I want to further investigate this idea of how light can travel through spaces and create these very complex form of shadows, the psychological link light has and how it ‘travels’ through each individual causing them to feel different emotions about the space they're in. 

This link I found shows wiring diagrams of the brain, to me the photos really grabbed my attention. I would interpret the colours as different senses, and different emotions a person feels. I felt that my sketches that I did has a resemblance to these photos and it is something I wish to investigate further as my forensic investigation.

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Location: Napier Avenue, IOD

Time:6.30 onwards

As I was looking in to Light, I chose to focus on natural and artificial lighting around my site. After visiting the site during the day and observing the light intensity and its link to sound levels I decided to go back, during the night to measure the light intensity being produced by the artificial lights that are surrounded on site and observing its link to the sound levels. 

From this, I created more sketches to demonstrate what I had been investigating and again these sketches were done in a very abstract style however, in comparison to the ones that were done earlier, these were less vibrant in the use of colour and style. 

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Location: Millwall Park, IOD

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Location: Millwall Park and Westferry Road/Napier Avenue, IOD

Time:4.30 - 7.00

More photos that I took on site, observing the light, shadows and sound levels. 

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Location: Napier Avenue, IOD 

Time:5.30 

This was a residential area that I decided to go to and investigate. 

The area was an overall very quiet environment but what interested me was the Light and shadows in this place. The space was surrounded by nature and the way the Light was travelling through the nature, between the branches etc had started to create very interesting forms of shadows that were being reflected on the floor, on sides of the buildings and car windows. I felt that the shadows and light helped to create the atmosphere and really helps in the way a person interacts with the space around them. 

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Site Visit: Isle of Dogs 

For my forensic investigation I decided to focus on light and sound as my area of interest. I was intrigued to find a correlation between the different types of light that was being projected,from natural to artificial and the different intensities of light and its link to the sound levels that were being produced around the situated space. 

Location: Millwall Park, IOD

Time: 4.30 

The time I chose to go, worked very well as the park was filled with many people so it was a good chance to record the sound levels. I began taking photos of the space around me and measured the light intensity and  sound levels, using a Light Meter and Decibel Meter app on my phone. Once this had been recorded I chose specific locations in the park,this was the Millwall viaduct and the children’s park and Centre and I began to walk around and started sketching what I could see and hear in an abstract style. This helped me to then create other pieces of drawings which represented what I had taken from the site. 

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‘River Thames’

around the Isle of Dogs

and Royal Greenwich.

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Isle of dogs through time 1700-1950

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site model - Isle of Dogs

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Unit 7:Architectural Forensics In Anonymous Monsters

Architecture is a crime if it does not involve environmental DNA and digital forensics to aid the design of building!

This year you will start with a three-week workshop in the Isle of Dogs, where you will document architectural forensic material in three-dimensional virtual and physical models with accompanying drawings. This material will be used as evidence to support the design of your building to become architecture.

Architectural Forensics encompasses the seizure, forensic imaging (acquisition) and analysis of digital media through the production of a set of precise drawings and models. Forensics deals primarily with the recovery and analysis of latent evidence. Latent evidence can take many forms in your design ideas and drawings, which will be used to reshape your building around new values and behaviours. Ecological design replacement towards ecological forensics will be accelerated by external shocks and shaped by the emergence of a new kind of human being.

(This is possible because of three major changes design technologies has brought about in the use and application of digital tools in architecture, a shift away from representation and towards documentation and the consequences of new spatial terrains yet to be explored)

Anonymous Monsters will be developed three-dimensionally to aid in the design of your building in relation to its own complex architectural forensic evidence. An anonymous monster (aka the environment) is constructed by some unseen force- directing spatial events, which are being orchestrated by some unseen director. Architectural research queries to develop the program of the building could be: How does gravity affect us? Where does weather come from? Who is Thunder? Our only true relationship with the anonymous monsters is that it is ubiquitous yet strangely anonymous in its complexity and architecture. We want you too unpack the guts of the monster and try and create architectural frameworks that can have a dialogue with this unknown unknown.

Year Two: Unit seven buildings will be developed as a series of networked shops and stores that will trade with each other on parallel currencies. These buildings are dedicated to free-time, networked activities and free stuff. You will consider different sets of associations of what architecture has applied to human behaviour and taken on a whole range of different spatial relations and encourage change in thinking about technology, ownership and work.

Year Three: Unit seven buildings will focus on split-sites and develop a complex response to the physical location through the development of an educational start-up practice. The split-sites will introduce two different programs in one building to create elements of a new system for a new way of living in the process of formation.