Some people wanted to see what we had to do for Ellerslie. This is an excerpt from the funky EIFS booklets we were given - pretty much all the (written) information we have to go on.
EMERGING DESIGNS - STUDENT DESIGNER OF THE YEAR COMPETITION
This category is for Landscape, Design and Horticultural students only who are currently in an appropriate tertiary course.
Whilst all exhibits within the Emerging Designs category are eligible to win EIFS medals an overall winner will be selected from within the Gold Medals. The overall winner will be titled EIFS Student Designer of the Year 2011. The winner of this award wins $5,000 towards their student fees.
These displays provide a genuine opportunity to demonstrate your design flare. In recent years many designers' individual exhibits have been the launch pad for successful careers.
The emphasis within the Emerging Designs in on DESIGN and INNOVATION! Thinking outside the square. However a strong horticultural content should be included within your designs.
Emerging Design Gardens work to a 'Client Brief'
Client:
A young couple in the 'DINKY' category.
Dual
Income
No
Kids
Yet
There are in their first home bought together; they have a high household income with few outgoings. Both have high preassure jobs working long hours.
Project:
Design and build a small courtyard garden.
Description:
When at home the clients like to relax with a glass of wine in a small, low maintenance, courtyard garden. THe garden should give an illusion of a 'Pocket of Tranquility'. It also provides an opportunity to entertain and possibly 'show off' to their guests.
The competition will only be held if there are 4 or more entries.
Grant offered:
$3,000
- Site size is 5m x 5m.
- Rough plywood walling (i.e. not plastered) 1.8m high walls will be provided by EIFS. THe Exhibitor should add a facade to compliment their design.
- Innovative design is key to this category.
- The heights of interior components of the garden, if over 180cm high, should be discussed with the Exhibition Manager on presentation of the garden design.
Viewing:
- At ground level these are to be viewed from one side only.
- A raised walkway will be situated at the back of the exhibits so that they can also be viewed from above.
- Emerging Design gardens are to be viewed from the walkways and are not to be 'walk through' gardens for the public.
Signage:
- Exhibitor signage should measure no more than 1m x50cm in total and be placed no higher than 1m from ground level.
- The signage allocation may be split over a number of signs i.e. 2 signs 50cm x 25cm
- Banners are not permitted.
- The tertiary institutes represented by exhibitors may display promotional material, to be discussed prior to show opening with the Exhibition Manager.
So yeah... that's pretty much it.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Ramblings
So, it turns out that May and Natasha are quite "shy" and do not enjoy posting on the blog. Hm. I suppose it's all up to me. Be prepared for vast quantities of meaningless babble as I am incapable of writing anything else. Ah well.
We've been having quite a few discussions about Ellerslie privately on Facebook. This makes it hard for anyone else to know what we're thinking, as, well, it's private. But I have gained May and Natasha's permission to publish bits of our conversation. Only the relevant bits about Ellerslie, though. Not the bits relating to mangoes, cushions, soup etc. etc.
Note: After a long struggle with myself, I decided not to correct any of the following spelling or grammatical errors.
Natasha:
I'm touring my city, I've found heaps of inspiration! LOTS of ideas which I'm planning to discuss with you'll once I get back.
[blah blah blah]
Other important things- how are we going about asking money for ellerlsie? Should I write up a proposal? How much time do we have? Are we taking it too lightly? I'm worried about the finances!
Are we going with multi-level? If yes, then we need lots of materials!! aaaaaaaaaaaaargh! I'm freaking out here, dedicating today for research! By the time I come back, I think we should each have an impressive set of 3 design ideas! main complete ones, maybe not decided on the materials and all, just create 3 different types of spaces, so we'll have 9 good ideas to start off with. We'll keep eliminating or adding the good ideas to one main design idea! OMGOSH! I hope you're understanding what I'm saying! let me know if you need me to call you! I know I can sound foolish when I write
Overall, I think we should have 2 main ideas, 2 because, one can be ambitious, but if something fails like- maybe we don't have the budget or maybe we don't get laborers, or materials, we can resort to the other simpler project/design idea without having to start from scratch. Of course, the 2 designs should have the same character and feel, only different in complexity and difficulty level~ :)
Lots to discuss! I am trying to get back by 12th, assuming it wouldn't be too late. HOPEFULLY!
May:
yeah, i know how u feel on the finances but we should focus on the design idea 1st cause we need an amazing jaw dropping design plan to get them spending $ on us :P
anyways, I <3>
Zara:
I like your idea of each of us coming up with three ideas. I also had an idea. In the meeting Kate stressed the importance of keeping to the brief - so I thought that, before we actually started designing something, we should make a list of everything that conveys to us a feeling of tranquility, calm, and peace, and seeing if we can translate some of those things into our designs.
Natasha:
I like the idea of jotting down stuff, we could play "word association" it always helps! It should surely be one of the first things we do before we run off designing, but as we agree on each of us coming up with 3 designed spaces, we could do the jotting individually and later when we are each discussing our 3 design ideas, we could say how we thought it was peaceful, etc.! and how we came to design that blah space! Okay, now I'm assuming that's what you meant us to do in the first place, but you know my habit of stating the obvious :P
I;m trying to look up different types of gardens, we are supposed to be doing a courtyard garden I know, but I thought it would be interesting (note: not May interesting) to use certain features of another type of garden in the "courtyard" garden. I got very inspired by you Zara! the "suburban courtyard garden" is a fatteh idea!
May:
what i had in mind now is some woodland forest with bird sing...
err... i'm kinda dont know what to put on the blog.... *shy*
And that really is all we've come up with at the moment. It is difficult to compare swell ideas when one person is overseas and the other two live so far apart it's ridiculous. One of us really needs to get a car.
Well folks, that's all I have time for at the mo!!! I'll post the brief for Ellerslie up when I next get some free time. My family from India has arrived and they're taking up a lot of time! (Not complaining! Time exists to be passed in cheerful company. Or with dvds and hot chocolate in bed.)
Zara.
We've been having quite a few discussions about Ellerslie privately on Facebook. This makes it hard for anyone else to know what we're thinking, as, well, it's private. But I have gained May and Natasha's permission to publish bits of our conversation. Only the relevant bits about Ellerslie, though. Not the bits relating to mangoes, cushions, soup etc. etc.
Note: After a long struggle with myself, I decided not to correct any of the following spelling or grammatical errors.
Natasha:
I'm touring my city, I've found heaps of inspiration! LOTS of ideas which I'm planning to discuss with you'll once I get back.
[blah blah blah]
Other important things- how are we going about asking money for ellerlsie? Should I write up a proposal? How much time do we have? Are we taking it too lightly? I'm worried about the finances!
Are we going with multi-level? If yes, then we need lots of materials!! aaaaaaaaaaaaargh! I'm freaking out here, dedicating today for research! By the time I come back, I think we should each have an impressive set of 3 design ideas! main complete ones, maybe not decided on the materials and all, just create 3 different types of spaces, so we'll have 9 good ideas to start off with. We'll keep eliminating or adding the good ideas to one main design idea! OMGOSH! I hope you're understanding what I'm saying! let me know if you need me to call you! I know I can sound foolish when I write
Overall, I think we should have 2 main ideas, 2 because, one can be ambitious, but if something fails like- maybe we don't have the budget or maybe we don't get laborers, or materials, we can resort to the other simpler project/design idea without having to start from scratch. Of course, the 2 designs should have the same character and feel, only different in complexity and difficulty level~ :)
Lots to discuss! I am trying to get back by 12th, assuming it wouldn't be too late. HOPEFULLY!
May:
yeah, i know how u feel on the finances but we should focus on the design idea 1st cause we need an amazing jaw dropping design plan to get them spending $ on us :P
anyways, I <3>
Zara:
I like your idea of each of us coming up with three ideas. I also had an idea. In the meeting Kate stressed the importance of keeping to the brief - so I thought that, before we actually started designing something, we should make a list of everything that conveys to us a feeling of tranquility, calm, and peace, and seeing if we can translate some of those things into our designs.
Natasha:
I like the idea of jotting down stuff, we could play "word association" it always helps! It should surely be one of the first things we do before we run off designing, but as we agree on each of us coming up with 3 designed spaces, we could do the jotting individually and later when we are each discussing our 3 design ideas, we could say how we thought it was peaceful, etc.! and how we came to design that blah space! Okay, now I'm assuming that's what you meant us to do in the first place, but you know my habit of stating the obvious :P
I;m trying to look up different types of gardens, we are supposed to be doing a courtyard garden I know, but I thought it would be interesting (note: not May interesting) to use certain features of another type of garden in the "courtyard" garden. I got very inspired by you Zara! the "suburban courtyard garden" is a fatteh idea!
May:
what i had in mind now is some woodland forest with bird sing...
err... i'm kinda dont know what to put on the blog.... *shy*
And that really is all we've come up with at the moment. It is difficult to compare swell ideas when one person is overseas and the other two live so far apart it's ridiculous. One of us really needs to get a car.
Well folks, that's all I have time for at the mo!!! I'll post the brief for Ellerslie up when I next get some free time. My family from India has arrived and they're taking up a lot of time! (Not complaining! Time exists to be passed in cheerful company. Or with dvds and hot chocolate in bed.)
Zara.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
So-called "Earthships"
Just so anyone who is not May or Natasha is aware, things posted at this early stage are just random ideas or inspiration being chucked about. It's something along the lines of an online board where we just pin all our ideas, seeing as it would be difficult in person. So anything you see could be completely nusts.
I thought I'd get the ball rolling and post something I was researching over the weekend. I love it!
EARTHSHIPS! They're look like spaceships that just happen to not be able to fly... hence, earthships! Everyone needs a little more sci-fi in their life - Natasha, I'm glad you saw the police box on your way to India. You realise you're lucky to be alive. There was probably some moster around. Probably the Japanese students.
Earthships are houses made out of recycled materials, like old tires or bottles or cans. I LOVE this idea of recycling materials - and the houses are very cool. Perhaps we could use materials like this?
See more at:
Zara.
The Very First Discussion (VFD)
Welcome, people. Welcome to our blog.
So as you may or may not know, Natasha, May and I are going to enter the Ellerslie International Flower Show 2011 (insert tumultuous applause here). This is all tremendously exciting. We hardly know where to begin. There's just so much to do, so much to think about... I forsee great stress/murder in our futures...
And so, in true 21st-century tradition, I've started a blog. I mean, you've just GOT to have a blog. Nothing happens or exists in the world anymore unless there's some lonely freak writing about it in some isolated back corner of the internet. I intend to be that lonely freak. May and Natasha can join me, if they want, and we can have our own little lonely, freaky, online party.
But seriously, I DO have several good reasons why we should have a blog:
1. To provide a place for us to share design ideas with each other. This, I think, would be useful, seeing as Natasha is in India at the moment and it would be a bit tricky to shove a book under her nose and shriek: "Look! Awesome idea!" Also, May lives far, far away from us, and I'm just not prepared to walk all the way to her house every time we come up with something exciting. (I know. I'm lazy. May does this all the time.)
2. To allow other assorted people, who may or may not be interested in what we're doing, to come and read and follow us and see where we're going. Hopefully they are interested; if they are, then I embrace you and cry "Welcome! And thank you for taking the time to come and visit!" If you really are not interested our garden design project and are reading this for obscure reasons of your own, then I hope you have a seriously decent excuse for what I can only imagine would be a severe case of cyber-stalking. But hello to you too, anyway.
3. So we can look back when it's all over and think, gosh, was that what was REALLY going through our minds? Were we mad? Insane? Just incredibly tired? It would be a fascinating psychological study.
4. Being a student, I am well aware of the great need for tools that promote procrastination. Sometimes when you just can't face working, but feel guilty about blatantly wasting time, you need something that makes you FEEL as though you're doing something useful when you're actually not. I think this blog would fulfil this task admirably. I've already "wasted" so much time already just writing this post. At least I know that I've accomplished something today, even if it was just deliberate procrastination. I don't need to feel bad about it. You see the awesome power of the blog?
5. There must be other reasons. There just HAVE to be other reasons. I wanted seven reasons, because seven is an auspicious number. It's supposed to be MAGICAL! (Actually, it dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, where it was the number that represented the gods. It was then transferred through many cultures over many centuries to the modern age, picking up other bits of superstitious meaning along the way: for example, in British folklore the Queen of the Fairies pays a visit to Hell every seven years, being the seventh son of a seventh son is lucky, and, most recently, in Harry Potter, where Voldermort splits his soul into seven. Bet you didn't know - or care - about that.) When writing lists there must be either three points (another good number), or a multiple of five, or seven. This is the only symptom of OC I have, luckily. Or do enjoying writing lists and alphabetising my books count too??? I am seriously disturbed.
Well, I think that's enough babbling for now. Come back and read, people, if you wish to be babbled at some more.
Love,
Zara.
So as you may or may not know, Natasha, May and I are going to enter the Ellerslie International Flower Show 2011 (insert tumultuous applause here). This is all tremendously exciting. We hardly know where to begin. There's just so much to do, so much to think about... I forsee great stress/murder in our futures...
And so, in true 21st-century tradition, I've started a blog. I mean, you've just GOT to have a blog. Nothing happens or exists in the world anymore unless there's some lonely freak writing about it in some isolated back corner of the internet. I intend to be that lonely freak. May and Natasha can join me, if they want, and we can have our own little lonely, freaky, online party.
But seriously, I DO have several good reasons why we should have a blog:
1. To provide a place for us to share design ideas with each other. This, I think, would be useful, seeing as Natasha is in India at the moment and it would be a bit tricky to shove a book under her nose and shriek: "Look! Awesome idea!" Also, May lives far, far away from us, and I'm just not prepared to walk all the way to her house every time we come up with something exciting. (I know. I'm lazy. May does this all the time.)
2. To allow other assorted people, who may or may not be interested in what we're doing, to come and read and follow us and see where we're going. Hopefully they are interested; if they are, then I embrace you and cry "Welcome! And thank you for taking the time to come and visit!" If you really are not interested our garden design project and are reading this for obscure reasons of your own, then I hope you have a seriously decent excuse for what I can only imagine would be a severe case of cyber-stalking. But hello to you too, anyway.
3. So we can look back when it's all over and think, gosh, was that what was REALLY going through our minds? Were we mad? Insane? Just incredibly tired? It would be a fascinating psychological study.
4. Being a student, I am well aware of the great need for tools that promote procrastination. Sometimes when you just can't face working, but feel guilty about blatantly wasting time, you need something that makes you FEEL as though you're doing something useful when you're actually not. I think this blog would fulfil this task admirably. I've already "wasted" so much time already just writing this post. At least I know that I've accomplished something today, even if it was just deliberate procrastination. I don't need to feel bad about it. You see the awesome power of the blog?
5. There must be other reasons. There just HAVE to be other reasons. I wanted seven reasons, because seven is an auspicious number. It's supposed to be MAGICAL! (Actually, it dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, where it was the number that represented the gods. It was then transferred through many cultures over many centuries to the modern age, picking up other bits of superstitious meaning along the way: for example, in British folklore the Queen of the Fairies pays a visit to Hell every seven years, being the seventh son of a seventh son is lucky, and, most recently, in Harry Potter, where Voldermort splits his soul into seven. Bet you didn't know - or care - about that.) When writing lists there must be either three points (another good number), or a multiple of five, or seven. This is the only symptom of OC I have, luckily. Or do enjoying writing lists and alphabetising my books count too??? I am seriously disturbed.
Well, I think that's enough babbling for now. Come back and read, people, if you wish to be babbled at some more.
Love,
Zara.
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