FMP Proposal

Monday 2nd March

 

Targets for today:

• Research into my chosen FMP theme.
• Write draft 1 of my FMP proposal.

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Started
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Today I started my Final Major Project for college. This is the last project I am ever going to work on whilst studying at Barnsley College so it needs to be good! Because I knew that this project allowed me to choose my own theme and write my own brief, I began to start thinking about what I wanted to do near the end of my previous project. As my ambition in life is to be an Architect, and I have received an offer to study Architecture at Huddersfield University, I wanted this project to experiment with this and really show that architecture is a career path that I am really passionate about. Due to this, the theme of this project would be obvious, I am going to do it on architecture. I didn't just want this project to not be lead, or have a real end goal of what type of building I wanted to do so I wanted to research into types of buildings before deciding anything further for my brief.
I personally don't like the idea that people think architecture ruins the environment that it is in and in this project I wanted to diminish that idea. I thought about the ways that I could do this by asking people why they think this. I soon found out that this belief is due to the building themselves looking out of place in its surroundings and also that in order to create the building, things are taken away from the environment where the building is meant to be and it damages not only the environment but also the animals nearby. At this point it became evident that the building I am to design MUST be sustainable and MUST fit into its surroundings. This then made me able to finish writing my first draft of the brief.
Once this was done, I chose to start researching into architecture in general while I waited for the brief I had wrote to come back with comments on how to make it better. I created a Pinterest inspiration board as I thought that Pinterest was the best place to gather general imagery into architecture as a whole theme. As I didn't have much time, I added as many images as I could, which I could sort out and choose which are relevant at a later date.
I think that achieving the targets that I set out at the beginning of today has gave me a good start in this project as I have a lot of time to keep amending my brief in order for it to be the best that it can be and I also have started some research into the theme that I want my project to be based on.