INTRANSIT

PORTFOLIO IN TRANSIT WRITTEN BY
BOOK The awareness of Isada
air pollution in Kultavarakorn
transitional space

KUL11350692
MA ISD
CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ARTS
UAL 2017/2018



CONTENTS

Introduction

What is in this book?.......................................................................5

Unit 1

PEOPLE MOVEMENT AND AWARENESS WHILE IN TRANSIT
- Movement.....................................................................................8
- Awareness...................................................................................14
- Interaction of Internal / External.................................................20
- Behind The Secse........................................................................26
- Research Development................................................................40

Unit 2

OBSERVATION IN TRANSITIONAL SPACE
- Visited / Observation...................................................................50
- Design Development...................................................................66
- Site Research...............................................................................78
- Experimentation..........................................................................94
- Film making process..................................................................108
- Interim Show.............................................................................118

Unit 3

POLLUTION IN TRANSITIONAL SPACE AWARENESS
- Site Choosing / Research...........................................................124
- Design Process..........................................................................146
- Render Images...........................................................................172
- Model........................................................................................188

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Introduction

This portfolio book is a collection of research and experiment focuses on transitional space
by looking into people’s movement and behaviour, specifically at Underground and train sta-
tions. King’s Cross Station, which is related to the current pollution problem in the area, is cho-
sen as the research site base. The project is divided into 4 parts. First, “people’s awareness”
concerns with how one is too focused on one thing and become unaware of his or her own
surrounding or the fact that he or she is being looked at. Continuous observation of people’s
behaviour on train and at the train station waiting area led me to the next question: what do
people do while they are in transit? Therefore, in the second part, a survey and observatory
study was conducted to explore people’s thought and behaviour while they are in transit both
on tube and at the train station. The part aims to find problems that need to be solved and
concerns that users have and want to be improved. The third part further explores the envi-
ronment and pollution problems, specifically smell, in the waiting area of King’s Cross Station.
Common smell that can be sensed in outdoor seating area, including cigarette, dust, food,
drink, pee, among others, were recorded, along with the potential effects of these smell on
overall health. The last past explores the vernacular architecture and technology of air purifi-
ers, which can be applied to and help with design process of the project site. It also includes a
study of people’s flow and movement, particularly in this transit between King’s Cross Station
and the outdoor waiting area in front of the station.

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UNIT 1

PEOPLE MOVEMENT
AND AWARENESS WHILE
IN TRANSIT

“Select two video clips, one from a film and one from a music video that contain a spatial se-
quence, i.e. motion though room, rooms street or similar. Prepare the clips for showing with titles.
Add text to the to describe the atmospheric qualities and details of the clips, expressing your
observations and reasons for selecting them. Note the connections between the two.”

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MOVEMENT IN SPACE

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Video made by Author
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I chose a film call ‘From Emptieness to Infinity’
directed by Mathias Frick. Matching with a song
call ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ by Max Richter
with ballet show from David Dawson.
The movie is about Tadao Ando, he is a Japa-
nese architect. This film has included a lots of his
building. His work is all about Zen and Minimal-
ist. Le Corbusier has a lot of influence on him.
He is self-though to be an architect and one of
the building that mad him famous is Church of
Light. Main material that he use is concrete and it
has become his signature. Even though concrete
is a hard material but in his design we can still
feel the softness because of plants are one of the
componets that help mellow the whole place.
I was interested in people movement and the
flow through interior space. So to see the two
ballet dancers interact with Ando’s building was
the idea. There are some moment in the film that
shows the curving building or walls and the bod-
ies move along with it.

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Video made by Author

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Scan the QR code for the movie.
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AWARENESS

Taken by Autho
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or, National Gallery Taken by Author, Victoria Railway Station
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Taken by author, Sketch model
Material: Cardboard / wooden stick, joined with glue

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A combination of National Gallery and Victoria Station. The little
wooden sticks are representing the people in the space.

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Many people sitting on benches, focusing on their phone. It seems they were using Na-
tional Gallery as a waiting space as Trafaga Square is one of the landmarks people use as
a meeting point. However, when it is rainy or cold, people prefer to wait inside. Therefore,
some people might be here for other purposes than to visit the gallery: some are looking
at painting, while some just use the public seat as a wating area. It is surprising, from my
observation, how much time one could spend in the this supplosed waiting are. This led
me to think of the actual function of space itself and how people use it. It isn’t just A to B.
There are more activities happening either on the platform of the underground or in the
waiting room.

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Taken by author, ‘Square Prism
by Nathaniel Rackowe’, The Roy-
al British Society of Sculptors.
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INTERACTION OF
INTERNAL / EXTERNAL

Taken by author, ‘Sculpting the Mind
by Bruce Nauman’, Tate Modern.

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Scan the QR code for the movie.
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Scan the QR code for the movie.
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BEHIND
THE SENSE

Taken by author
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Sketches by author

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Testing Process From unit 1 I was finding a relationship be-
Taken by author tween one painting and the other advert. Af-
ter walked around National Gallery I notice
that not many people paid attention to this
one paticular painting. So I ended up looking
at a painting and an advert that no one re-
ally looking at. And then again, it happened
when I was doing looking at internal and ex-
ternal installation. One thing I notice is that
people pay less attention to the external in-
stallation. In contrast to the internal installtion
is Tate Modern, people were taking photos
and discussing about it. So this is what it led
me to my main focus on sequence six, which
is about human awareness and behaviour in
trasitional space. Do people aware of what’s
happening around them while they are too
busy focusing on direction.
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This sketch model represents camera and also the people behind the camera. There are three
holes that you can look throw. these three give you a different view, which represents eye levels.
I did a little addition to the model with frame slider with four frames that you can change. These
frames add an extra feeling of the digital camera today because you can change the size of the
frame.

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Taken by author

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DIY phone projector made from
cardboard and magnify glass.
Taken by author

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All the research and ideas accumulated from personal practice Taken by author
were combined to communicate the idea of people’s behav-
iour in three perspectives- general people, people looking at
other people, and the person observing the first and the sec-
ond- to reflex privacy in our society these days. The first view
is from the screen: the video of two dancers dancing around
is projected to represent the movement of people in space.
The frame seen links to the second angle showing people be-
hind the box that represents a camera or a television, through
which the second viewer is looking at the first. What the sec-
ond viewer sees is the mirror image of the front. The third, us
the viewers, are people looking from the overview of a bigger
picture and working with the dancer to get the better under-
standing of human movement.

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CRITS

I display my work in the staircase corridor and
next to the work I put a small poster with a QR
code link to my booklet.
Taken by author, Setting up process for crits

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RESEARCH
DEVELOPMENT



Taken by author, Sketches
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After the exhibition, I got some feedback about the work I have done. Maybe just the frame isn’t
enough to draw attention and since I was using the projector. Focus and out of focus idea to
play with projector distance to the object is something that I can explore more like the photo on
the left. I took the frame off and project the film directly to the box and it creates another effect,
which leads me to experiment more with different shape of boxes.

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Taken by author, Sketch models
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Shooting process

The QR code here on the left is a link to a video that I made to improve the project. In the earlier
stage, I used a found footage of two ballet dancers for the sequence two and keep using it in the
last sequence. But in order to improve it, I thought it would be better to make the video myself,
so I put posters around our college.
Photos from the page before are the process of the shooting. I was filming the moving image and
I got a friend to help me take some still images for the poster that we had been asked to do for
our project.

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Dancer: Thea Laang / Hanyun Du
Taken by Author
Scan the QR code for the movie.

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UNIT 2

OBSERVATION IN
TRANSITIONAL SPACE

Taken by Author, Paris