Final Project Source and Proposals

My source statement is to build for a clear guidance and direction, specifically referring to children; children are everything. To assist them in understanding the ways of the world and their community, to share stories of wisdom, to teach lessons, etc. I have always been intrigued to assist others in one way or another; if it’s to babysit, to help perform tasks requiring some handy work around someone’s home, or if it’s to simply assist to cook, and sometimes perhaps to be a listener or someone to lean on in good or bad stages…

Guidance and Direction

To Teach as a guide and an observer, to intervene less and less as the student develops, to build an atmosphere of calm, order and joy in the classroom, to encourage children in all their efforts, to promote self confidence and discipline, to demonstrate the use of materials and presenting activities based on an assessment of a child’s needs, to know when to observe and when, and how much, to intervene is a skill.

I will explore three different possibilities – all encompassing potential for an installation; be it a functional or conceptual form.

The first is to take some of the teaching methods described in the above paragraph and show those characteristics in built form. This type of installation will require some sketches and development of form through bah reliefs. Material of choice for the model(s) will be in some type of wood, perhaps foam core, and other architectural modeling materials. The installation will presumably be built within the walls of an outdoor space. The space is approximately 50ft. depth, and 100ft length.

Another possibility is to build a tree house/fort for kids in a neighborhood in Davis Square, Somerville, MA. In effort to provide creative activities to a family who is often busy, maximizing their outdoor space for three kids and three dogs is a must. The flowerbeds are already dead! I will most likely only use wood material and metal joints as needed. As building this structure may incur a great deal of bureaucracy, this may be mostly a model.

The third choice is to volunteer at a veteran’s shelter. I would solely take their stories and transform/morph them into some type of built form. Materials aren’t of great concerns as they can be threads, wood, glass, metal, etc.­­