landsessions

Competition Results

2008-06-04T08:01:00.004+01:00

Me, Tom Kean and Michael Antrobus (winners), Antony Jayakody (2nd)
Runner up (3rd). The prize was awarded by Councillor Frances Moseley who described the project as having...

"...plenty of artistic flare and a complete disregard for feasibility!"
Fine by me!

FOCUS VIII

2008-05-07T08:40:00.021+01:00

KINGSTON GATEWAY PROJECT

Participants -
+ Kingston University
+ Kingston College

A charette run in conjunction with Kingston Councils K+20 Action Plan. Ran over three phases, proposals were selected at each phase to continue. Each phase was a week long.
K+20 here

PHASE ONE

Click images to view my submission.
Phase one was exhibited at the Landscape.is Studio. Everyone across the undergraduate landscape course exhibited. Proposals were selected by tutors to move onto the next phase.

PHASE TWO

Click images to view my submission.
The brief at this phase defined the site as Kingston College roundabout. A site that the K+20 plan designated a key gateway for Kingston.

Phase two was exhibited at Market House, central Kingston. This was an opportunity for the public to vote for proposals from Kingston University and Kingston College.

The exhibition.
Local press release here

PHASE THREE
Click image to view my submission.
Phase three was initially critiqued at Kingston University to allow us to verbally communicate our work to students and tutors but also to members of the council. Frances Moseley Design champion for Kingston, Colin Bloxham from Kingston Arts panel and Richard McFarland civil engineer. The work was moved to Kingston College for private exhibition. The results are as yet unknown...

The exhibition. Sods law that camera ran out of batteries, so grainy phone pictures.

FOCUS VII

2008-03-31T11:14:00.012+01:00

London Open City @ Sommerset House

If I could design London I would...

+ Bike - extend cycle lanes, improve awareness and allow bikes on the train network at all times.

+ Demotorise - pedestrianise, share space

+ Plant - trees trees trees

+ Modernise - water, electrical, lighting infrastructure to reduce waste

+ Experiment & Innovate, with new schemes, cultures and design
+ Dare to do it!
A well put together exhibition, with loads of freebies, focusing on the future of London's built/unbuilt environment.
Sommerset House here
Design for London here

Brit Insurance Designs Of The Year @ Design Museum

Muon Four-Way Limited Edition Loudspeakers - A KEF concept designed by Ross Lovegrove
"The first in an annual exploration of the most innovative, interesting and forward looking new work in design of all kinds. Selected from around the world, Brit Insurance Designs of the Year presents 100 projects nominated by a group of internationally respected design experts, curators, critics, practitioners and enthusiasts. These projects fall within seven categories: architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. The exhibition gives an overview of the most significant achievements in design and architecture in the last year, whether they are projects by a practice, a team or an individual."
An interesting collection well worth a look in especially for those who enjoy interactive exhibitions.
Design Museum here

Jean Prouve @ Design Museum/Tate Modern

Design Museum here
Tate Modern here

Haque Design + Research @ London Met

Burble London from haque d+r on Vimeo.

"Usman Haque has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances. His skills include the design of both physical spaces and the software and systems that bring them to life. He has been an invited researcher at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, artist-in-residence at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Japan and has also worked in USA, UK and Malaysia. As well as directing the work of Haque Design + Research he was until 2005 a teacher in the Interactive Architecture Workshop at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London."
Usmans' presentation covered a snapshot of his work to date. He started by explaining what drives his work,
1 - Architecture - how we are programmed to explore and experience space.
2 - Interaction not reaction - how can participation affect a response.
3 - Design + Research - how these are so closely intertwined to be almost indistinguishable.
I thought his mapping of modern phenomena, mobile telephone reception for example, and how he applied the results to his proposals fascinating.
Haque Design here
London Metropolitan University here

Potters Field Park Kiosks

DSDHA Architects here

China Design Now

Ji Ji, Hi Panda, toy figure, 2006
"China Design Now explores China’s dreams and hopes over the last two decades, from individual designers to the nation as a whole."
China Design Now here

Snowboarding @ La Plagne

La Plagne here

CITYSCAPE 2008

2008-03-02T17:26:00.011Z

Biotecture Ltd green walling systems

Caxia Forum Madrid
Patrick Blanc has some great examples of his own system of green walling, what he calls 'vertical gardens'. Recent work includes a partnership with Herzog & de Meuron on the Caxia Forum Madrid, Spain. Found this project on plataformaarquitectura.cl a great resource for new architecture.

Biotecture here
Patrick Blanc here
Caxia Forum here and here
Plataforma Arquitectura here

Thames gateway model by Pipers.
Its the size of a tennis court, epic! Really had an urge to stomp across it in a Godzilla like fashion, just me oh well...
Pipers here

Hans Monderman 1945/2008

2008-02-03T15:53:00.000Z

'The Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman, who has died from cancer aged 62, inspired and developed a fundamental change in thinking about the relationship between people, places and traffic.'

I had never heard of Hans Monderman untill reading his obituary in the Guardian this weekend. His theories of shared space are excellent, simple and have a high regard for the intelligence of a spaces' users. Here in nanny state UK some projects are embracing his principles, Kensington high street London, however its only time untill the nannies begin to vandalise the landscapes with their incesant rambalings. We all know, what is good for nanny is good for us...

Guardian article here
Wikipedia article here

Wednesday Jaunt

2008-01-31T10:33:00.001Z

Waterfront London, Rediscovering the rivers and canals of the capital @ NLA

An investigation into current and proposed waterfront developments in the capital. Water has the potential to enhance any landscape. In London water has several key issues to consider: economic, increase property value and the potential for a transportation network; biodiversity, encourage aquatic flora and fauna to recolinize pollutant free water; cultural, trade on the water and around it is what made London what it is today.
Download the catalogue here.

Londons' lost rivers

Henk Hofstra's blue road in Drachten (Holland) @ Wooster Collective
I personally think that a future London should embrace its waterfronts and waterways. How about resurfacing the lost rivers of london? Or create a subterranean waternetwork for boating commuters/troglodites...

River Tyburn @ sub-urban

Three Mills Wall River @ derelictlondon
This is exactly the scenario I believe is crying out for attention. Can landscape architecture help? Obviously it a dump that needs to be cleared. But can the surrounding area be regenerated and populated to stop anarchistic behaviour, should supermarkets only allowed to be constructed a certain distance away from an open watersource, can it be treated as a framework for nature to take hold?
NLA here

International Lecture Series: FAT @ The Bartlett

"Theory is futile..." - Sean Griffiths

Islington Square
Describing the consultation process with residents, of Islington Square - Social Housing, New Islington, Manchester 2006, Sean showed an image of a homemade bar in the corner of some ones livingroom and described it as,
"A spatial expression of culture."
which I thought was a great comment.
FAT seem to enjoy a subversive angle to how they confront a project. Their facades, in my opinion their most exciting element, borrow pattern from a local vernacular and distort it to create a new but also instinctively recogniseable form.
FAT here
The Bartlet here

Anthony McCall @ Serpentine Gallery

Interactive light experience. Sheets of tangible white luminecence create enclosures with etherial beauty.
Could this be used in the landscape to create corridors or ghostly apparitions that populate space at night? Just like Sony did here. All those photoshop images of proposals filled with ghosts could actually become realaised!

Serpentine Gallery here
Anthony McCall here

FOCUS VI

2007-12-13T11:44:00.001Z

Out of The Ordinary: Spectacular Craft @ the V&A

Anne Wilson, 'Topologies' 2002 - ongoing

Catherine Bertola, 'Everything And Nothing'
I don't know if I have become brainwashed by landscape architecture but some of the pieces shouted 'map' at me. What exactly the pieces were mapping is open for debate but you could say the artists mind... Also interesting to look at photos of the artists studios.
Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft here

Fusion Now! @ the Rokeby

Roger Hiorns, Untitled, 2007

http://withyou.co.uk/
"At a time when we are told that our excessive use of fossil fuels threatens the environment itself, environmentalism advocates that the only solution is restraint and reduction. FUSION NOW! asks what art and society might look like if we thought positively about a world based on more energy, not less."
Rokeby here

Breaking The Rules @ the British Library

De Stijl

"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written"

Henry Miller

"Mainly through the medium of print, Breaking the Rules throws new light on Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Surrealism and other movements; on the artists who changed the face of modern culture for ever; and on the cities that experienced their work, from Brussels to Budapest, Vienna to Vitebsk."

How many 'Isms' can the avant garde produce? 129783619283198367770222222. Maybe an exaggeration but it seemed that at the turn of the last century society was rebranding itself with unabashed enthusiasm. Graphic design especially was explored, manipulated and challenged creating styles that are still in use today. Personally I liked the "two fingers to the establishment" attitude at the turn of the century and how that became a catalyst for change.

De Stijl. Edited by Theo van Doesburg. Leiden, 1917-1932. 8 volumes (90 numbers). All online here

Full film online here 'Things to Come', HG Wells here

FOCUS V

2007-10-31T09:08:00.001Z

Crack @ Tate Modern, 27/10/2007

Doris Salcedo Shibboleth. Anywhere else this would cause serious concern. Architects, Surveyors, Engineers would be desperately trying to fix this massive structural fault... But it's in a gallery so people just trip and fall over it.
Tate Modern here

S333 @ NLA, 29/10/2007

Dutch architects practice with a heavy lean towards urbanism. Interesting to see there approach to analysis and how they represent it.
S333 here
NLA here

Forms Of Inquiry: The Architecture Of Critical Graphic Design @ the AA, 29/10/07

(AA facade)
How far can a story be expressed, changed and animated on a sheet of paper? Can Graphic Design aid Architects? Well, yes, however this exhibition didn't engage with me. Some of the pieces were too abstract and dare I say it felt as if I've seen it before. I guess its a delicate balance between information and design.
Forms Of Inquiry here

Vladan P. Lighting Designer, Kardorf, 29/10/2007

(reso-net)
Light as a material? A great glimpse into what Lighting Design has to offer. Interesting how stories can be told and experiences affected by lighting. Nocturnal landscapes given depth by picking out elements within the vista.

ERCO provide engineering hardware and software for architectural lighting. Check out the guides section for some 'illuminating' information...
Speirs and Major Associates are a big UK firm with some interesting projects.

(Lumiere at the serpentine pavilion)
Two big questions the industry is asking itself:
+ How are we can we be sustainable in the 21stC?
+ When is lighting design light pollution?

Professional Lighting Designers Association here
ERCO here
Kardorff here
Speirs and Major Associates here
reso - net here

In-House Trend Meeting by The Future Laboratory @ MLT Knights Park, 30/10/2007

The job of The Future Laboratory is to bring the future to you.
A great presentation by Chris Sanderson the creative director of The Future Laboratory. He covered several areas that the company had been investigating, areas that particularly interested me were, Slowtopias and the Design Notebook.

Slowtopias

(Tino Schaedler airship concept)
The idea that we are changing our attitudes to travel. We want to shrink our carbon footprint and rediscover the joy of travel. What does this mean to Landscape? Creating destinations, transition zones, remediate areas polluted by extravagant 20thC travel, new routes for as yet unrecognised forms of travel...

Design Notebook.
Speculation on trends in design for the next few years (according to The Future Laboratory). Three themes coined by the future lab -

SUPER SYNTHETIC
SUPER SURREAL
HYPER - NATURAL

these are the umbrella under which the following subdivisions exist.

+ Tranplastic: mixing synthetic & natural materials.

(Transplastic by the Campana Brothers)

+ Neo Nonsense: surrealism the return...

(Dutch Embasy in Berlin by OMA)

+ Tribal Tech: oversize, pattern.

(Facade Art Academy, Boxtel, The Netherlands by FAT)

+ Prime Eval: fresh subversive organic guts.

(Tea Pot by Wieki Somers)

+ Metallica: weight, lustre, metal!

(Link Table by Tom Dixon)

The Future Laboratory here
Tino Schaedler here
Campana Brothers here
OMA here
FAT here
Wieki Somers here
Tom Dixon here

The Serpentine Pavilion 2007: Olafur Eliasson & Kjetil Thorsen, 31/10/2007

The 'spinning top'. For me this structure did have the immediate wow impact when first seen. This is rectified when you climb the first section of the ramp and enter the internal area/cafe. Light, theatre, tectonics and views all mix to form a great experience. Continue up the ramp and look down from the 'Romeo, Romeo' balcony and observe movement bellow of people and above through the sky light. Well worth a look.
Olafur Eliasson here
Kjetil Thorsen @ Snøhetta here

Mathew Barney: Drawing Restraint @ The Serpentine Gallery, 31/10/2007

?I mean what the f**k?
Drawing Restraint here
Serpentine Gallery here

The Stirling Prize @ RIBA, 31/10/2007

Don't go the exhibition is not worth it, just look on the web.
The Stirling Prize 2007 here

Richard Kelly: Selected Works @ RIBA, 31/10/2007

Pioneer in architectural lighting. I particularly liked the sketches on display. Always interesting to see initial thoughts.
ERCO here

Shell Wildlife Photographer Of The Year @ Natural History Museum, 31/10/2007

(Ice Creation by Robert Knight)
I find amazing photographs of our natural world truly inspirational. I left this event wanting more than ever to leave the UK and go on an adventure.
Shell Wildlife Photographer Of The Year here
Natural History Museum here

The Wildlife Garden @ Natural History Museum, 31/10/2007

Looking a bit tired, it is October and 12 years old. A great resource for inner city education. Also provides scientific data on pollution levels since it was constructed in 1995.
Natural History Museum here

The Turner Prize: A Retrospective @ Tate Britain, 31/10/2007

(Anish Kapoor, Untitled 1990)
Cool. I wouldn't have thought beforehand that some of the best pieces there were moving image.
Tate Britain here

SUMMER2007

2007-10-13T11:54:00.001+01:00

TOWNSHEND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

TLA gave me a job for the summer! This being my first excursion into the professional field it was quite a jump from student life. However the team at TLA were all friendly and patient, learning CAD on the job being the challenge. I had the opportunity to work on a major London project, Kings Cross.
All in all a fantastic experience, challenge and education. CHEERS TLA!
Townshend Landscape Architects here

LORENZ VON EHREN

While working at TLA I had the opportunity to go to the Lorenz Von Ehren nursery near Hamburg, Germany.

View of some of LVE crops.

Green manure.
Lorenz Von Ehren here

HAFENCITY PUBLIC SPACE

Miralle/Tagliabue in Hamburg.
EMBT here
Hafencity project here

MTB

Afan in the summer...

project I, semester II, year II

2007-06-28T10:04:00.001+01:00

VOICIFERATE
North SEAfaring
site - Vlissingen.
selection of slides from final presentation.

Degree Show 2007

2007-06-12T11:02:00.000+01:00

Third year and Post Graduate students exhibiting. Plus, this was done without my knowledge, a huge print of me in the hallway outside the studio!
Also helped put together portal for students online portfolio here.

landscapeis.org

FOCUS IV

2007-03-31T10:08:00.001+01:00

The Higher Education Learning Academy Assessment: 'Students Supporting Students' @ The New Connaught Rooms, 21/03/2007

Left to right, Kaori, me, Tom and Emma.
Pat Brown the director of Landscape Architecture and the Landscape Interface Studio at Kingston University hosted a workshop named 'Action Learning Sets' with 'us', (Emma, Kaori, Sarah, Tom, Paul and I, all second year landscape students). It was a great experience, made even more interesting as Pat had to leave us in the afternoon. This created a odd situation for the afternoon workshop. Students teaching tutors how to teach students. Maybe that was the whole point? Anyway some of the tutors seemed interested in the learning community that we have in Landscape Interface Studio and how that could be applied to other disciplines. Best phrase of the day "YOYO, FOFO" (your on your own, f**k off and find out).
The Higher Learning Academy here

Shifting Sands 2: Good Design In Seaside Regeneration, 26/03/2007

Heatherwick's East Beach Cafe, Littlehampton. View looking inland.
A day of seminars by various speakers involved in seaside regeneration. There seemed to be two general directions policy and design were going. One was creating sustainable communities that would regenerate an area themselves therefore creating a more vibrant area that would attract more people/wealth. The other was creating 'Icons', these being a symbol of the area that would attract interest/wealth. I believe that an 'Icon' approach is flawed as it potentially creates structure with a short life expectancy that becomes redundant when the community/fashion move on. However it is a lot more complicated to create or more aptly reinvigorate a community. I particularly enjoyed the speakers Mark Cannata, Thomas Heatherwick and Maria Smith.

Bexhill-on Sea, January 2006
Mark Cannata of McAslans architects is involved with the renovation of the De La War Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea. The project has been running for sixteen years now. It is trying to reestablish Bexhill-on-Sea's heyday as a tourist destination. Mark also made some amusing comments on peoples perception of architecture. How certain era's (60's, 70's) had a negative sentiment attached to them.
John McAslans + Partners here

Interior of East Beach cafe. Notice the section lines.
Thomas Heatherwick talked about his new cafe. Still not convinced of the form of the structure. The only factors seemed to be the width of window shutters and a want to create an interesting 'back'? The construction was interesting as it involved sectioning the structure so it could fit inside the steelworkers workshop. It seems to work and hopefully draw some attention to Littlehampton upon completion.
East Beach Cafe here.
Construction pictures here
Thomas Heatherwick Studio here

Maria Smith talked about her studios proposal for Littlehampton, 'The Longest Bench'. A ceramic serpentine form that drapes itself across the existing structure. Very cool indeed.
Studio Weave here

Colchester Charette Costing

My proposal was one of ten chosen by the Colchester North Sea Faring partner in a studio competition, 'Colchester Charette', to be costed. This is my first contact with the delights of the Spon's manuals, only being a second year student. Interesting how going through the costs can highlight areas of a design that one had overlooked or not considered previously. A good exercise and hopefully the proposal will get built!
Precedent images taken from 'Contemporary Public Space Un-Volumetric Architecture' by Aldo Aymonino and Valerio Paolo Mosco, p244, 245, showing structure built by the Cooperativa Amerida.

Helena Rivera: PHD review
Help contribute to her paper here

Blogging tutorials

Dreamweaver

Definitely going to have to spend more time learning this piece of software. However the one day course I attended was a useful introduction.

New Rural Assault Machine

Giant Reign O.
Let the carnage begin...

FOCUS III

2007-03-01T12:46:00.001Z

British Library

Charles Booth's 'Descriptive Map of London Poverty'. Detail showing city of London and the East End.
Plans, sections, elevations, panoramas, paintings of London through the ages. Interesting to see the evolution of information and representation in maps and how the information has shaped the urban fabric of London today.
British Library here.

Design Museum

Go along to test ride some of the most influential modern chair designs. My personal favorite 'Crate Chair', 1934 by Thomas Gerrit Rietveld. Comfortable and made from a packing crate. Anyone could make this chair. Wonder what the Pallet chair would look like? Might make one...
Design Museum here.

Alvar Alto through the eyes of Shigeru Ban. Modernist Architecture and Design.

Material, minimalism and man. Alto creates sublime spaces through the use of form and materials. He also played with the interpretation of pine forests into his designs. Drawing nature in from the exterior. Alto's product designs are in my humble opinion where his designs really come to life. The Paimio lounge chair 41 shows his intimate knowledge of material and ergonomics, when a rigid frame of plywood can become a flexible comfortable chair.
Alvar Alto Foundation here.
Barbican here.

The Curve

Jeppe Hein, Distance.
Don't follow the ball...
Barbican here.

Barbican Estate

Vertical village, floating walkways, hanging gardens... in east London? Good to see a high density residential development that not only looks great but is a pleasant environment to be in, well worth a look in.
Barbican Estate here.

Accidental Collections

Photos of Stuart Haygarth collection - Aladdin 2006.
An exhibition of seven artists/designers collections. Interesting because it highlights the fact that an object can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways. Stuart Haygarth is a lighting designer. His collection of crystal, when viewed from above, looks similar to a micoscopic environment.
Aram gallery here
Stuart Haygarth here.

Innovations for the Built Environment

Technology, material, techniques and suits. Held in Earls Court Innovations for the Built Environment was an informative trip. Artscape and MakingArtWork are bringing art to the masses. Deeproot the urban ecosystem project and Land Restoration Trust realise the importance of green space and are bringing to your city. Woodhouseprojects providers of bespoke urban furniture. UK Green Building Council is on a mission. Finally, sshhhhh the quietrevoltion is here...
Cityscape here.
Earls Court here.

NLA

Public City People for Places. A guide to built and proposed public space in and around London. Get the book its free!
Or you can download it here.
New London Architecture here.

RIBA

Horizons, Madrid Social Housing 1981 - 2006.
Models of housing commissions by the EMVS, Empresa Municipal de la Vivenda y el Suelo de Madrid.
EVMS here.

Emerging Architecture, Architectural Review Awards 2006.
Miro Rivera Architects, Pedestrian Bridge, Lake Austin, Texas, USA. Particular favorite more here.
AR Awards for Emerging Architecture here.
Royal Institute of British Architects here.

FORM.

Modern and Contemporary Art and Design at the Olympia.
MATERIALS, MATERIALS, MATERIALS.
Form here.
Olympia here.

North SEAfaring field trip

2007-01-24T14:43:00.000Z

North SEAfaring

project II, semester I, year II

2007-01-12T21:21:00.000Z

DARE
site - Leith, Scotland

project I, semester I, year II

2007-01-12T21:00:00.000Z

CAMPUS
site - Knights Park Campus, Kingston University.

a subtle path

2007-01-08T21:34:00.000Z

FOCUS II

2006-12-14T12:42:00.000Z

Volume@V&A

V&A here.
UnitedVisualArtists here.
Video here.

Blogging Tutorials...

Landart or Leftover?

2006-11-28T21:59:00.000Z

Fairfield Park, 28/11/2006.

LINKS...

2006-11-17T09:29:00.000Z

COOLHUNTING - cool videos and stuff

M SS N G P ECES - they make the cool videos and stuff

MOCO LOCO - modern design stuff

KULTUREFLASH - London events and stuff

FOCUS I

2006-11-15T18:31:00.000Z

BTCV, Hounslow Heath

The BTCV, British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, charity was set up in 1959 and has a successful history of environmental conservation volunteering throughout the UK and around the world.

We contacted the Richmond office and on a cloudy Tuesday morning met up on Hounslow Heath. Our mission for the day was to conserve an area of heathland at the south of the park. This meant removing vegetation, predominately Broom and Gorse. These plants grew taller the Heather and therefore 'shaded' it out, causing it to die. Traditionally the Heath had been common land and grazed by a variety of livestock. The gazing kept the Broom and Gorse in check, allowing Heather to thrive. Now the livestock has gone and it is up to volunteers to do their job.

The day was a useful hands on approach to habitat creation. It also made me wonder why livestock couldn't be reintroduced to the area. Maybe some sort of 'urban wild grazing animal sanctuary'. The idea of a heard of wild animals roaming the heath has a certain appeal to me.

The BBC has a useful summary of Heathland habitat information here.

Mile End Park, Tower Hamlets

Oh dear, time has not been kind this poor old park...
Completed in 2002 the park has been completely left to ruin.

Water features are stagnant pools of rubbish strewn filth, that is if any water remains.

Planting has been left to die or has disappeared.

All available surfaces are covered in graffiti.

It seems that the community that was so involved in shaping the park has turned its back on it.

CABE has information here.

Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf

Enclosed, Clean, Used, Maintained, Calm...

Stared down upon on all sides by mirror clad skyscrapers this park does an amazing job of making you forget, if just for an instant, that you are overlooked by these behemoths.

CABE has information here.

TATE Modern

SLIDES!!!!!!

Is this the future of urban transportation? What about escape routes for tower blocks?

RESFEST 10

Design, Animation, Film mash up!!!

RESFEST can be found here.
RES magazine online can be found here.

Cumbria, UK {54'N,02'W}

2006-10-08T13:39:00.000+01:00

Burgers Zoo, Arnhem, Gelderland, NL, {51'N,05'E}

2006-09-01T13:53:00.000+01:00

Burgers Zoo is a fantastic zoo. The main attraction, for me, were the biodomes. There are three environments, Rain forest, Desert and aquatic. The environments have been allowed to grow naturally making the whole experience more 'authentic'.

Information - http://burgerszoo.nl.colo2.netmasters06.netmasters.nl/index.cfm

Delta Works, The Scheldt Dam, Zeeland, NL, {51'N,03'E}

2006-09-01T12:15:00.000+01:00

Information - www.deltawerken.com

Vlissingen, Zeeland, NL, {51'N,03'E}

2006-09-01T11:48:00.000+01:00

360' panorama of Vlissingen waterfront. Old port/castle on the left and the modern on the right.

View into the old port/castle. The building in foreground was the arsenal. The structure to the right is a massive tower/viewing platform which is a massive eyesore and should be dumped.

View towards the modern port. Notice how snug structures are to the dyke.

Four Winds Square. Quiet, calm and quaint. Looked liked a relatively new square, the materials used here have been used in other Areas throughout the town.

Edge interaction of materials.

Massive mural on the side of a warehouse, why? Why not...

More Information on Vlissingen and its history here - http://www.vlissingen.nl/

Rachel Whiting Photography

2006-07-28T11:43:00.000+01:00

check out : rachelwhiting.co.uk/

depthCORE.com :: Digital to the Core

2006-07-24T14:05:00.000+01:00

http://www.depthcore.com/v5/view/1346/

http://www.depthcore.com/v5/view/1210/

http://www.depthcore.com/v5/view/1223/

http://www.depthcore.com/v5/view/1341/
Digital Abstract. Try looking at them as plans or sections...
http://www.depthcore.com

Mountain Biking, Afan Forest, Wales, 10/06/06, {51'N,3'W}

2006-06-27T17:47:00.000+01:00

Welsh sustainability. Not only the wind farms but the way the forests were managed as well.

Greg, Luke and Pete on the whites trail. Taking a needed rest in the 30'c heat.

Link to Afan Forest Mountain Biking

London Walk 2, 05/06/06, {51'N,0'E}

2006-06-27T16:21:00.000+01:00

More London

Water... Sculpture?drain? More London Riverside to More London Place.

'Fountainettes' Riverside. Interesting change in ground texture around fountains.

what's round the corner? Are corners or junctions natural meeting points?

More London Place. Water blocks. Constantly changing reflective surface, calming sounds of flowing water, cools local atmosphere.

morelondon.co.uk
london.gov.uk/

The Shad. Converted warehouses into residential structures. Exterior still retains the rough industrial textures.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad_Thames

Spitalfields Market. Empty when I arrived.

spitalfields.org.uk/
visitspitalfields.com/

Brick Lane.

London Walk 1, 30/5/06, {51'N,0'E}

2006-06-14T19:17:00.000+01:00

Paddington Basin.

Recently completed regeneration development around the Grand Union Canal. Old working structures, unique warehouses and boat yards, jostle for position amid new development, identical brutal residential and commercial high-rise structures. Is this regeneration or redevelopment? Has the original soul of the area been lost?

For more information:
paddingtonwaterside.co.uk/
paddingtonbasin.co.uk/
britishwaterways.co.uk/

Orange underpass!

Diana Memorial

Beautifull infinite flow of water. Designed by Gustafson Porter Landscape.

Serpentine flow of water.

Detail of water granite interaction.

Granite Detail.

Duck!

gustafson-porter.com/

Object Investigation. Romanesque.

2006-06-09T12:49:00.000+01:00

External investigation.

Internal investigation.

Collage of internal space.

Exploded object.

Exploaded object continued.

Photoshoped images

Model detail.

Gallery. Chiltern Escarpment.

Proposal in site.

St Raphaels Church, Kingston upon Thames, {51'N,0'E}

2006-06-09T12:27:00.000+01:00

Site Investigation.

View of main entrance.

360' panoramic of site.

The River Thames.

Tile detail from floor of the naive.

2006-06-09T12:16:00.000+01:00

Stairs.
2 person project.

sketches.

Model of proposal.

Proposal on site.

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Conciling Center.
10 person project. Located on the grounds of StRaphaels.

Maquetts.

Model of proposal.

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Stage.
1000 person project. Temporary structure that floats on the Thames.

Model of proposal.

Collage of proposal in use.

Barcelona field trip, {41'N,2'E}

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Day 1. Gaudi.

Parc Guell.

Interior of Sagrada Familia. Fantastic organic forms and geometry.

Day 2. Coast.

Port Forum. View of auditorium designed by Foreign Office Architects.

Day 3. Hills.

Botanical Gardens. Check out this site for more info.

Hastings. The Stade. Decay.

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View of the Stade.
This area has been used for fishing for centuries. However the industry here is in decline. A major theme of my projects with the Stade is to do with decay. Not just the physical decay of materials but also the social and economic decay of this once prosperous and vibrant community.

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net huts and fisheries

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Boats.

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macro shots around site.

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Scales of decay.

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locating site.

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panoramic of site.

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Concrete samples. Looking at texture, colour, organic growth.

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ice models

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timelapse video showing how decay affects form. models made using ice.

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A1 sheet showing plans, section, maqettes and light investigation

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external views of proposal

Concrete Experiment

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I wanted to discover how differente mixtures of concrete affected it physical qualities. Questions of texture and brittleness.

Apparatus

cement

sand

mixing bowl

base

Method

prepare base with sand

Mix sand, cement and water. Each mix is 500ml.
10 mixes were made. Each mix contained 1 cup of water.
table showing mix ingredient %

No . %sand . %cement
1..........90............10
2..........80...........20
3..........70............30
4..........60...........40
5..........50............50
6..........40............60
7...........30...........70
8..........20............80
9..........10............90
10..........0..........100

Pour on to base. Mixes were then left to dry overnight.

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Results at different stages of concrete experiment.

wet

dry

underside dry

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Results.

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Final technical drawings showing the 'life' of the proposal. As time passes the structures matrix of different concrete componds creates portals affecting views in and out of the proposal and how light interacts with it.

Chilterns

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Tate Modern

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The Unilever Series: Rachel Whiteread. Check out www.tate.org.uk for all the Tate galleries

Engelburg, Switzerland snowboarding holiday, {46'N,8'E}

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Engelburg valley. Check out www.engelberg.ch for more info.

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Mist in the woods.

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Panoramic of the Jockpass 3000m, Switzerland