A Final Reflective Review

When this project started i was very unsure as what to chose to animate as 'The Everyday' is a very broad theme. The reason i chose to base this animation on the building i live in and the deterioration of the Brutalist building was because i remember the feeling i had when i first saw Rowley Way as i had never seen anything like this before. 

The fist thing one notices about the building is the sheer concrete, it almost hits you in the face. The building looks very out of place as it is surrounded by up market real estate so it stands out. Whilst researching the building i looked at some pictures of the building when it was built in the early 70's and the contrast to then and now is astonishing. The main component of change would be the change in colour as it has gone to a bright white to a concrete grey and this has made the building appear monolithic and primitive. 

I wanted to recreate this change that the building has undergone through my animation and to emphasise the aesthetic degradation of this building and of many other council estates.Part of my animation shows concrete creeping down the red brick path that runs the whole way down the estate ending at Abbey Road. I chose to depict this to show how a building like this can interestingly blend into its environment especially in the winter but still simultaneously hold a strange contrast to its environment.

The stairs feature heavily in the animation as to me they characterise Rowley Way as there are so many of them leading to all sorts of strange places around the building. I also wanted to show how the concrete   has slowly weathered on the steps which is reflected by the decline of a set of steps, like a representation.

Throughout this project i have come to understand about Brutalist architecture and the ideologies that the architects held. For me it has been insightful to understand the difference in building estate design and i see the building that i live in in a whole new light and i now have a strange appreciation for Brutalist architecture.