New Project

I should probably begin at the beginning for this project; I'm already doing design work but if I backdate this post no-one will know! Shhh.
The project began at the end of October. The brief was given and this time there was a choice of two sites: Ironbridge in Shropshire or Graz in Austria. I chose Ironbridge and as a group of 3, we decided we would need more than one day one site so we headed down on the Monday before we had to meet tutors on the site on Tuesday. 

We headed down there on an early morning train to Shrewsbury and after just missing the two-hourly bus to Ironbridge we explored the town centre to kill some time.
Finally on the bus, the weather started to turn nastier and the rain, fog and crazy bus driver made for an interesting journey. After arriving at Ironbridge, the first destination was the site which was around the back of the Museum of the Gorge carpark.

The site is long an narrow and offers views across the river, upstream to the powerstation and downstream to the iron bridge. After exploring the site and it’s immediate surrounds, we felt it was only right that we went and saw the iron bridge so we headed up there and to the toll house. 

We then decided to try and get views of the site from the other side of the river and went for a walk along the river bank towards the powerstation, actually reaching the fenced boundary. The cooling towers looked so ominous in the mist.
Turning to walk up the hill, we found some stairs leading up the side of the gorge. Thinking that they didn't go up very far, we went up them. We ended up climbing until we would have been able to see the town, if it wasn't for the fog. 
After coming to the conclusion that the fog was getting worse, we made our way back down the hill. Quickly. Visiting the museums was next on the list so we got our Museum Passport from the Museum of the Gorge and once we had visited, we headed up the road to Coalbrookdale, Enginuity and the Museum of Iron.

Day 2

The day began by catching another early train to Shrewsbury although delays meant that I nearly missed the bus out to Iron Bridge but Arriva buses can always be trusted to be late!
Once there, I visited the site and took more photos. It was even foggier than on Monday which made for some more eerie photos towards the power station. Having some time to kill before meeting on site, I headed into town and up the hill. I found a path just off the town square that lead up to the church. From here, I followed the road until I found a small garden/park on the hillside. Making my way through this park, I headed back down the hill and to the site. I was hoping to be able to get some views of the bridge from the top of the hill but there were too many buildings in the way.
On reaching our site, we began making sketches and taking photos as well as drawing out sections through the site at different places to get an idea of what the land form looks like.

As we had done a majority of the museums the day before, after we had gathered everything we felt we could from the site, we went up to a steel sculpture park where we thought of a good idea for a video. The park was full of some really interesting sculptures which could provide inspiration for my building.