Week 6

Completed a lot of work in the two weeks since our last submission. Finished most of the diagrams all bar the Nolli. Will use the figureground as the basis and edit necessary parts. Still finding it really hard to find floor plans. Have spent hours researching plans for both residential , commercial and public buildings. The council didnt have much nor did the library. This is heavily going to affect the standard of my nolli as I will probably only have 4-6 building in it. Touched up the history section and worked on the introduction (mainly talk ABOUT MOUNT ISA). In recent weeks Mirko has been discussing with me the idea of Mount Isa and Influence of Mining. This has triggered two discussion points that I believe are focal to the report. The first Mount Isa being a Company Town, the second is how has Fi-Fo affected the town. Both are broad subjects which have heavily impacted the development and history of Mount Isa. I spent a large portion of time working and researching these topics.

Was able to complete the following diagrams:

Figureground - map of all the building and roads in central area of Mount Isa (note the significance of the Mining Region)

Growth - historical growth of the town. Had limited resources to do so and had to base a lot of it on text references rather that images. Did this by research development of districts and when the happened. Pretty happy with the outcome.

Mobility - analysis of Roads, Trains and Airport locations

Functional Analysis - spawned from the Figureground. Highlights what each building is used for (residential, commercial, mining etc.)

Finished the Model today. Laser cutting went well. Lucky I planned ahead because they are closed for Project Week. A few pictures below:

Had a look at the feedback Mirko gave me on my progress. Main points i took to work on this week.
 - Need to play with the layout of my Prezi. Will integrate the skyline I made and use that as the basis of the background.
 - Include the text and diagrams on the same slide
 - To many historical photos (I am going to get rid of all of them. Don;t need them and they detract from the presentation)

To Do
 - Add an urban form analysis
 - Nolli
 - Play around with layout