Final Product!

This is the final sound map after a week's worth of analysis and design. The numbers on the map correspond to the sketches/descriptions about the sound on site.

  

Presentation

Presenting our project to high school students so show them different aspects of architecture.

Photo Collage

Looking at using fun ways of illustrating where the sounds on site are coming from.

Mapping Techniques

We looked to represent the sounds of the areas in different ways. Looking at using cartoon like sound waves and simple textures we came up with a first draft of a map, showing the most prominent sounds in the area.

Sound Sketches

We collected all our sketches of how we represented sound, looking at how different shapes and line weights represented different tones and volumes. Using different sketching techniques (such as closing our eyes and sketching) to produce different outcomes and numbering them to match them onto a location on a map of the site.

Back to Studio

After our interesting day down at site the team got together to start compiling our ideas. Incorporating diagrams of the sound experienced on site, annotations, figure-ground maps, and typography we began to design the layout of the Sailortown sound map.

The team at work:

Video of Sailortown Soundscape

Site Visit: Sailortown

Photos of today's trip down to our chosen site: Sailortown, which was once a thriving residential community of dockland workers. We spent the afternoon documenting the soundscape of the area through recording, sketching and photographing.

Sailortown

The site in Belfast that is to be the focus of our sound map will be Sailortown. This is an area located beside the shipyards and used to be a thriving community of Dockland workers and their families. Over the last few decades this area has become less and less populated as the ship industry in Belfast declined. We hope to examine the soundscape of this historical part of the city and bring its voice to life.

Recomposing the City: Creating a Sound Map

The Street Society programme has in recent years become an annual part of architectural studies in Queen's University Belfast. This programme consists of a week long collaboration between first year undergraduate and masters students who complete projects for various clients in Northern Ireland.

Our project brief is to work alongside the Sonic Research Centre in Queen's to produce a sound map focusing on an area of social deprivation in Belfast. This map will form a part of the continuous work and research being done by Recomposing the City: Sonic Art and Urban Architecture, a collaboration between various faculties at Queen's. 

We plan to use this page to document our analysis, ideas and progress over the next week.