Exercise 17: The user's point of view

1. Outdoor cafe area:
For this exercise choose two or three buildings or spaces designed for a particular activity that is undertaken from a specific, distinction position.  For each location, take one or more photographs that attempt to capture the user's point of view.
I'm using the space that I identified in the previous exercise, ie, an outdoor cafe but added an old farm truck instead of pursuing the telephone box theme.

Below I have added images taken in the cafe. I put my camera down on the table and on a lantern so it took ad hoc pictures of the people on the next tables.

The next pictures show how the space is used from a table top angle.

  
     


2.Red telephone box:

I thought I would carry on the theme of an old red telephone box, used in the previous exercise, as well. From the user's point of view these red boxes are easily recognised for what they do, ie, provide a telephone link when someone on the street requires to contact another person or organisation.  Today, I was very disappointed at the condition of these boxes. Whilst they did have working phones available, they were dirty and smelly and in the most inconvenient places. I must admit I have walked passed the three boxes I finally found in Lyme Regis as they were tucked away in the most unaccessible places.

Here the function of the telephone box is obvious,

you go into it to contact a person or organisation using the telephone!

3. Woodmead Halls, Lyme Regis:
Woodmead Halls in Lyme Regis was originally built as a secondary just after the end of World War One.  The secondary school, known as Lyme Grammar School, moved to another site in 1933.  These buildings were used until 1983 when after extensive fund raising by the local community, the money was available to update and rebuilding was completed.  The building consist of a large hall with stage, small hall,  two large dressing rooms, ladies and gents toilets including disabled and an extensive kitchen. Parking is also accessible around the building. As this exercise is titled 'User's point of view' I took the last picture from an angle whilst I was sitting in the audience of a local club.