Category: Kathryn Pierre

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Week 11 | Kathryn

I decided to study some of the front stairs and porches of my neighbourhood. I attempted to define them by some of the same criteria I use in assignment 7, movement. This includes:
are they clear of debris?
slippery?
how sturdy are the hand rails?
Are they comfortable and uninterrupted?
Is there a resting place at the top?
Are they accessible? Truly accessible?
I created an agglomeration of the stairs that I studied. This one has a continuous handrail that fits comfortably in the hand and is non-slip. It has a landing pad porch, which could be an outdoor room (especially during the pandemic). The ramp is also thoughtfully considered rather as part of the initial design, rather than an afterthought or addition to the system (please pretend the sloped are acceptable hah).

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A10 | Kathryn Pierre

In-class exercise: tasting chocolate. I tried to represent the sensory expression leading up to eating the chocolate, followed by tracking the spread of the chocolate throughout my mouth as it melted and oozed with the heat and saliva. Finally, I strived to capture the feeling of the oozy coating that chocolate leaves in one’s mouth and throat.
Documentation of a tasty sandwich I ate that was both salty and sweet because of the prosciutto and pear.
Baroque dance notation used to describe the experience of eating the sandwich. I was inspired by the partnership of the salty and sweet, which work together to frame the experience. Their rhythm is interrupted by the other flavours but ultimately they work together to create a singular whole.
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A9 | Kathryn

In Class Exercise: Walking from the back on my apartment building into the lane.
In class Exercise: Stills from my walk back from the back lane, through the building and back to my apartment. I layered over associations that I made from specific scenes, and ranked them. Interestingly, my trip is cyclical from good smells in my apartment, to bad back alley smells and then back to good apartment smells.
This is a smell map of the scents as I walked down West 4th Avenue in Kitsilano. I tried to mark out where the scents were coming from through colour intensity, where the darkest colours represent the location of the scent and the less pigmented areas represent how far the smell travels

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A8 | Kathryn

This week I attempted to capture the experience of the sounds at the Arbutus Coffee Shop. I attempted to graph the sounds using the lessons from the first week of the course in an attempt to communicate visually how the experience sounded. The corresponding plan was meant to map the direction and intensity of the sounds.
This is from the class assignment, where I again tried to use expressive lines to communicate sounds. While I did not try to align these spatially, I did attempt to communicate the scene by showing myself in front of my window
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A6 | Kathryn Pierre

The patterned pavers on the ground are the dominant material on the site. They dictate a lot of how the site feels and is organized

In class assignment, exploring why I can’t get anything accomplished and how my cat sees my bedroom
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A5 | Kathryn Pierre

Tactile observations of my mystery object, which turned out to be my roommate’s night serum for her face.

My in class object was chosen blindly by feeling around on my nightstand until I landed on an unfamiliar object, my sewing scissors.

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A4 | Kathryn Pierre

I conducted a study of the use of the East side of the NEST at UBC on a sunny afternoon one day this week. I wanted to explore whether the new turf field was actually in use – to my delight it was well populated that day. I also looked at the areas around the NEST to study how the availability of green space and spatial programming influences the experience of the gathering space on the western side of the building.

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    A3 | Kathryn Pierre

    Class exercises
    Mapping the activities at Hastings Mill Park on Tuesday September 29th, 5-ish
    Mapping the movement of a little girl’s kite at Hasting Mills Park

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