Dominic Davis Portfolio 2016

DOMINIC PORTFOLIO DAVIS University of Greenwich Architecture: [Part 2] MArch - 2014/16 [Part 1] BA - 2010/13 dominicgdavis@gmail.com

A palimpsest of past historical maps forms the masterplan for a collection of institutions. An Oral History Museum located on the Greenwich Peninsula, records the memories of the everyday man. The project is inspired by my Grandfather who is a local resident.

Software: AutoCAD, Rhino and Illustrator.

Museum of Oral History

Museum of Oral History section

Museum of Oral History plan and detail

Landscape of Histories masterplan axonometric

Museum of Oral History axonometric

Model for Venice Biennale 2012

A concrete Bath House in the South of France has been informed by the political and mythical narratives of this border city. A poetical play with mirrors conceals a multi-layered spectatorship that is accessed via the Port of Marseille.

Software: AutoCAD (laser cutting), Rhino and V-Ray.

Marseilles Bath House

Mirrored bath view

Bath House section

A Vertical Highstreet - Group A Architects for Health Design Award 2014

Case Study 138 (2015). 32:54 mins Essay Film on my Grandfather’s life in Woolwich whilst looking at the past of the area.

Once Upon A Time In Silvertown (2016). 3:58 mins An augmented-reality park in Silvertown, London is proposed as a form of ‘exponentially expanded cinema’.

Manifesto: A Future of Tar (2015). 3:03 mins A re-imaging of Vertov’s call to awake from complacency in the Greenwich Peninsula development with a palimpsest of historical buildings.

Loop and Reveal (2016). 3:05 mins 360 degree VR short film exploring cinema’s expansion beyond the black box theatre into augmented reality and smartphone film-making.

Software: After Effects, Photoshop and Premiere Pro.

Software: After Effects, Photoshop and Premiere Pro.

Selected Short Films

Software: After Effects, Blender 3D, Illustrator and Premiere Pro.

Software: Blender 3D, Rhino, Photoshop and Premiere Pro.

Conclusion

Expanding Cinema

ExpandedCinema: ALexicon

through this process I have learned about arts based research first hand. I became most impressed by the experimental approach to making work in the Slade art students. In addition, those who ran the workshop gave permission for detours in making work not directly related to the brief. That approach is at the root of arts based research as it is about the process and methods.

56 Expanding Cinema (2016) Exploring a switch from passive to active spectators whilst developing theory for a new kind of spatial cinema.

Software: InDesign, Photoshop and MS Word.

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An augmented-reality park in Silvertown, London is proposed as a form of ‘exponentially expanded cinema’. Collaged and abstracted grafts from Western genre films form a choreography of actual-virtual landscapes that are to be navigated through.

Software: After Effects, Blender 3D, Illustrator and Premiere Pro.

Once Upon A Time In Silvertown

Traces of Westerns

Augmented Interventions Axonometric

Augmented Streams