Lecture from Ellen Van Loon of OMA.
Posted 18 Apr 2016 21:36
"Casting stone"
Cast iron staircase, seemingly carved into the rock of the Bollington wharf.
Cast iron staircase, seemingly carved into the rock of the Bollington wharf.
Posted 16 Apr 2016 17:47
Playful detail at the bottom of an otherwise fairly banal cladding panel. Caruso St. John at Liverpool Philharmonic. (Curtain wall?)
Posted 11 Apr 2016 16:21
Elevation option: Lombardian red brick - rendered with slurry on the upper floors. Stone arch reveals, base and capping. Timber window frames and ribbed concrete pavement.
Posted 11 Apr 2016 09:49
Cut Axonometric Drawing of Carlo Scarpa's Venezuela Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Posted 8 Apr 2016 17:40
Performance Space Precedent: John Pawson's restoration of St. Moritz Church. Articulating traditional forms in a modern language.
Posted 4 Apr 2016 21:33
Performance Space Precedent: Brick dome in the Neues Museum. Playing with light, texture and volume in an already tall space.
Posted 4 Apr 2016 21:29
Performance Space Precedent: Taking inspiration from Lewerentz' St Peter's Church, Kilppan for a very unholy space.
Posted 4 Apr 2016 21:23
Spending too much time thinking about light hitting a tree.
Posted 1 Apr 2016 14:21
Weighing up elevation options keeping depth and layering in mind.
Posted 1 Apr 2016 13:25
Quick precedent study detour from meeting with Events collaborator @ Brockholes
Posted 29 Mar 2016 16:21
Concept Sketch - Archway as Threshold to the Recreation Ground
Posted 21 Mar 2016 11:41
CiA visits the Hargreaves Foundry - Halifax 17/03/16
Posted 21 Mar 2016 11:07
Visit to Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery - Caruso St John
Posted 12 Mar 2016 21:01
Concept section model for a tower which still looks quite a bit like this.
Posted 12 Mar 2016 18:22
Via Conca del Naviglio Site Model. Made from actual wood with Hannah and Jana.
Posted 12 Mar 2016 18:20
Started from the bottom, a journey to the Middle wood way.
Posted 10 Mar 2016 18:11
Grande Cretti di Gibellina, Sicily, a town cast in concrete after it's destruction during an earthquake
Posted 10 Mar 2016 09:03
Great and inspiring afternoon @Time&ContextSymposium !
Posted 8 Mar 2016 18:40
Ingersley Vale Rambler's Retreat: Mapping complex programme relationships
Posted 7 Mar 2016 18:38
Tuesday 8th March 2pm - "Time and Context" symposium
Consisting of talks from award winning practitioners and academic.
All welcome, so please come along for an afternoon of inspiring talks and discussion.
Consisting of talks from award winning practitioners and academic.
All welcome, so please come along for an afternoon of inspiring talks and discussion.
Posted 5 Mar 2016 11:58
Material/site studies, carving into the heart of the site. (model by art historian Matthew Simmonds)
Posted 2 Mar 2016 10:17
Walsall Art Gallery Visit- tower vs domestic
"The gallery should be a contemporary equivalent of the church, a marker, a fix for the town's identity" [Caruso St John. 2002]
"The gallery should be a contemporary equivalent of the church, a marker, a fix for the town's identity" [Caruso St John. 2002]
Posted 1 Mar 2016 19:32
Genius Loci, an exploration of the the spirit of Bollington through collage, inspired by the work of visual artist Anastasia Savinova.
Posted 28 Feb 2016 14:53
Continuing the courtyard within to create ambiguity between inside and outside.
Posted 24 Feb 2016 08:36
Defining the central courtyard with enclosing blocks
Posted 24 Feb 2016 08:25
Tower as a landmark, a termination to the street
Posted 24 Feb 2016 08:24
Introducing both circulation and viewing axis, which define the street.
Posted 21 Feb 2016 13:42
