After the initial investigation period we discussed as a group how the individual findings could be used as a catalyst for design. This was a really positive and productive session with everyone fully engaging in the collaborative nature of the workshop. Some really good ideas were put forward but when we then asked the students, most of whom were first years, to transform those ideas discussed into a design for the bar the workshop began to stall for a bit. That initial leap into the unknown was perhaps a bit daunting at the early stage of their degrees. Never the less the work that the studio began to produce was encouraging. Lee and I leant a hand when it became apparent that time was getting tight and collectively we began to formalise an idea of the layout whilst simultaneously working out how the design would be constructed. Over the next week we produced working drawings, figured out the quantity of materials needed and placed an order for them. The drawings were traced over and over as people noticed a potential problem, solution or alternative way of constructing the bar until slowly the design was refined to a point where we were confident we knew what we were doing...this confidence lasted until we had been in the workshops handling the materials for about half an hour.
Here are a couple of photos of the intermediate working drawings:
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