3rd...and final for the moment

Organos...

Not the best map, but that will soon be on-route abroad so this is the first computer rendered image...

 

 

Move 3 : Jig and Tracing Floor

So the end of group work, well it will be on Tuesday evening when my Practice and Law 3 day exam begins. But here's what I've been working on the last three weeks:

 

Along with a drawing that goes with it but hey I don't have a copy of that. So after my exam the individual project for the christmas exhibit is beginning. Along with that a bit of volunteering for PLACED.org and the return of ballet and beginning of hip-hop and shocker in no time it'll be christmas. So need to think about investing in my Christmas Party dress....

 



Bit of Victoria Secret may be on the cards I think!!

 

 

Then next year in March see's the return and final Architecture Ball.... Might hire for that....

In the meantime gotta save my christmas money and student loan for Rosetta Stone Russian, to achieve my 2013 goals.

Back from Cordoba and into work...

Ok so I'm back from Spain and i must say, even though I have now visited Spain three times and it is one of my favourite places (bar the heat) Cordoba is completely different and interesting, I am not entirely sure I'd return but I would advise anyone to go. The city was part of Al-Andalus which was a Moorish state and as such Cordoba is half Spain and half like being in Morroco or an Arab state.

 

It is reknowned for its tolerance under Moorish control as the city had Mosques, Synagos and Churches. Until the Reconquista by the Christian Spainsh, when they built a Cathedral inside the great Mesquita (Mosque) which makes the craziest juxtaposition of buildings I have ever seen. The Cathedral rises out of the Mosque as if squatting on it, and dominating the skyline along with the spire which used to be a Minaret.

Ruined mills, on a calmer day the one on the right is clearly visable but there is one behind the
trees in the shadows on the left that is barely visable.

 

My site is, in my obviously bias opinion the best part of the city, it is the abandoned mills in the river, visable from the Roman bridge, they were built by the Moors, who were experts in Irrigation and Hydrology and in bringing water and life to what was previously a pretty desert like landscape on the banks of the Guadalquivir River. ( despite our tutors and health and safety we  decided the only way to see our site was to wade into the river, which had flooded the day before due to the worst rain spain had see in 30 years! Plus the site is a nature reserved and off limits to the public, its ok though the Policia only saw us the second time, although our tutor Vicky expected a call from the inquistion haha!) These Mills ground grain into flour and later some were adapted for use in creating textiles. One; Albolafia Molino was created to lift the waters the ten meters from the River to the city. However this great wheel was disabled on the order's of Spainish Queen Isabella after the Reconquista who said it made too much noise for her to sleep.

OUR ROUTE TO THE DESERTED, MID-STREAM MILLS

Anyhow now we are working on a model of this site, but Edinburgh Uni style so its a bit of a difference from what I'm used to; for example we will be using Oak!!! We are also constructed a drawing that explores what information we gathered from the trip and should help us utilise it. But between this I have also been doing some second year teaching, I will be working for the University on the next open day, and I have PLACED volunteer work to try and shoe horn in as ideally I would like to attend a workshop before Christmas, probably in Manchester. So keep ya posted...