Brief
Produce an analytical sketch book of 20 places you visited during the vacation, or if you were unable to get away, sketches of the environment surrounding your home. The sketches should be completed in an A5 sketch book, using B graded pencils from 2B-9B. Sketches should be line drawn, with rendering used economically to emphasise form and character. Each sketch should be “fixed” to stop it smudging. Please refer to Townscape. Cullen. G. for precedent on how to compose the sketches. As agreed with Ian Fisher I have completed the exercise using mixed media.
Sketch 1: Boathouses: Stanley Park Blackpool
The Boathouse Design just like the Park’s Gatehouses are faced in roughcast render with appealing sweeping roofs in Westmorland slate creating a “cottage” style. The team behind the Boathouses insisted that the land they owned must be built on to make an investment that could later be sold. The designers have evidenced consistency and an appreciation of the wider landscape as the vast majority of Stanley Park Roofs are faced in Westmorland Green slate as are many of the houses surrounding the town and in other parts of Blackpool. (Blackpool Civic Trust 2001)
Sketch 2: The Cocker Clock Tower, Stanley Park. Blackpool
The Cocker Clock Tower is something I have always been fascinated with since I was a child, being an eighties kid my mum used to take me and my younger brother to the park as it was and still is a free amenity. Situated in the centre of the park it was a monument that stole my imagination with big solid wooden doors that you could not open. I was always inquisitive to find out what was inside, I used to think it was a place of magic and it held some amazing treasure. I was talking to my Mum recently about the history of the park, she informed me that when she was a girl her mum used to take her to the park and you could actually go inside and walk up a spiral staircase to the top. Like most things of this nature, today the door is closed and bolted due to health and safety reasons.
Sketch 3: Art Deco Cafe, Stanley Park. Blackpool
Art Deco Coffee House – Pilot Fineliner Pen with Faber Castell Polycromatic Pencils on Moleskine Watercolour paper.
Morphology: Buildings as Foci
The Art Deco Cafe plays a central role and landmark within the landscape and helps people orient themselves around the Park. The building has a strong relationship with the paths as many lead to it making it a destination.
Sketch 4: Bancroft Park, Blackpool.
Bancroft Park, Blackpool. Highly Commended 2009 Landscape Institute Awards Design over 5 hectares.
A Mixed Media Sketch - I layered the image up using hand drawn and digital techniques using a riot of colour to symbolise the much-needed and valued regeneration of my hometown.
Paths, Spaces and Edges
Bancroft Park, Blackpool’s newest public park provides a beautiful composition of paths, spaces and edges vital for spatial integration. The left and right raised grassy contours and beautifully designed planting provide visual and sensory interest whilst evoking a peaceful and safe sense of enclosure. The curved path breaks up the monotony of a linear journey that show surprises and pockets of rest space; they also separate space, define edges and boundaries whilst integrating themselves into the experience of a living system. I would recommend local students to visit this park as its layered with amazing architectonic, sculptural and naturalistic forms. The park has been a very big inspiration for me going to study towards becoming a Landscape Architect. (Dee 2009, Chen 2011, Stron et al 2009)
Sketch 5: Lower Chatham St Student Apartments Courtyard
Lower Chatham Street Courtyard Apartments, Manchester. I took this sketch in pencil with an intention to render it to get a ‘Gordon Cullins Townscape’ look. I completed the sketch first in pencil then used Rotring Black Ink with a pen and brush on ripped double sided cartridge collaged into a Moleskine Watercolour Book. Once dry I put a watercolour filter on using Photoshop to get the flat black appearance and the grey grain where the light appears.
Morphology – Courtyard
A view of the new Courtyard where I will be living this academic term. A Courtyard provides privacy and a domestic counterpart to public squares and streets in the urban environment. The Courtyard reveals a ‘Hortus Conclusus’ – an enclosed space for social and private activities, greenery, light and shade. What I particularly enjoy about a Courtyard is the close interaction between indoor and outdoor life as the landscape and architecture spaces are interwoven. (Dee 2001, Chen 2011)
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