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Posted 12 Dec 2015 19:42
plan development
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plan development
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plan development
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plan development
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plan development
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plan development
Posted 12 Dec 2015 15:51
Theatre plan analysis.
Posted 12 Dec 2015 15:09
The Auction house - choosing sites
Posted 11 Dec 2015 16:19
Im Viadukt project in Zurich. Could converting the viaduct arches be appropriate for Bollington?
Posted 11 Dec 2015 15:20
Masterplanning exercise
Posted 11 Dec 2015 15:05
Masterplanning a response to heritage issues in Bollington
Posted 11 Dec 2015 15:03
with mirrors, the image goes away quickly
Posted 10 Dec 2015 22:29
Shooting a star
Posted 10 Dec 2015 22:10
Replicating ingersley vale mill with etched plasterboard: the material is extremely fragile and crumbles away with a touch, but seems well suited to presenting an industrial ruin
Posted 10 Dec 2015 18:20
Analysis development- creating a temporary 'centre' for Bollington
Posted 10 Dec 2015 17:39
Work in progress in the workshop
Posted 10 Dec 2015 15:55
1:10 Nancy at 21b model in progress
Posted 10 Dec 2015 10:51
A Christmas card designed by Andy and Bobby Needham,the 18-year-old girl and her brother, who have painted the latest White Nancy. It's curious that the Christmas card is meant to present Bollington in its entirety, but nothing is where it actually sits and there is a public square with lots of people and the tree in the foreground.
Posted 9 Dec 2015 21:55
Site?
Posted 9 Dec 2015 16:33
Sketch Diagram - Exploring courtyard typologies
Posted 8 Dec 2015 22:17
Lecture from Ben Kelly
Posted 8 Dec 2015 20:40
Nancy at 21B progress...
Posted 8 Dec 2015 14:17
Dry stones walls come in many different forms, materials and construction techniques.
The Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain (DSWA) founded in 1968 runs training courses in the art of dry stone walling.
http://www.dswa.org.uk/about-the-dswa.asp
Posted 7 Dec 2015 14:00
Sketch at 1:200 - Using site axis lines to sculpt space.
Posted 7 Dec 2015 08:07
Quote: "The concave features of Nottingham Contemporary can be seen as gigantic columns represented as negatives, enabling the facade to offer two views, from a distance, the complexity of the exterior form is tamed by the pattern of vertical lines, while up close, the fragility of the lace ornamentation requires a finely honed reading."
- Aureli, P. V
Posted 6 Dec 2015 18:33
Future exhibitions of Bollington within the Benzie Atrium.
Posted 4 Dec 2015 09:58
Work in progress: Half moon theatre 1:100 model
Posted 3 Dec 2015 17:33
Graeme Massie Architects Bonn Square. Oxford
Re-design of a public square retaining historical value.- "The use of tone, modulation and varying textures will lead to an expressive surface, which over time will wear, providing a trace of peoples movements through the square."
Posted 3 Dec 2015 10:59
Peter Brook on the fundamentals of theatre.
Posted 2 Dec 2015 19:57
Milanese "intervention" with toilet paper that brings your attention to one of the many ventilation shafts around the city.
Posted 1 Dec 2015 11:15
cia at fondazione prada
Posted 30 Nov 2015 20:32
Threshold study in Liverpool showing adjacent threshold as ritual and threshold as buffer with a view to challenge whether there can be both at the same time and to highlight differences and similarities.
Posted 30 Nov 2015 14:06
Interior's mapping of the long shot of Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birman (2015).

Backstage journey as performance.
Posted 30 Nov 2015 13:20
Kinetic model - showing the change in direction of energy simply by using iron wire and insulation tape
Posted 30 Nov 2015 13:16
Development Sketches - Movement/ Kinetics
Looking at the Water Frame and the Mule as inspiration
Cam, Pulley, Lever, Latch, Gear, Hinge, Spring
Posted 30 Nov 2015 13:15
Bollington sketches
Posted 30 Nov 2015 13:04
Detail - Scarpa
Posted 30 Nov 2015 12:35
Turning on the christmas lights in Bollington
Posted 29 Nov 2015 22:10
Proposal for bringing White Nancy into Bollington's interior
Posted 29 Nov 2015 20:19
Ben Kelly stripped down of colour... Recognisable?
Posted 29 Nov 2015 13:21
Kntting, Pressing, Weaving, Wrapping proposition at decaying Ingersely vale mill
Posted 29 Nov 2015 00:56
Recreating the chimney at Oak Bank Mill
Posted 29 Nov 2015 00:54
History to Loss to Recognition
Posted 29 Nov 2015 00:53
Exposing Bollington's underlying structure - Cotton
Posted 29 Nov 2015 00:50
Small-scale intervention: Using light to draw attention to loss
Posted 29 Nov 2015 00:33
KWWP Postcard.
Posted 28 Nov 2015 19:32
Posted 27 Nov 2015 15:44
Janet Echelman's work combines 'meaning with physical form, it strives to create a visceral experience in diverse city environments, accessible to all. These sculpture environments embody local identity and invite residents to form a personal and dynamic relationship with the art and place.'
Posted 26 Nov 2015 17:18
'The Magic City' by Aili Schmeltz, 2008 : 'a poetic three-dimensional drawing in the form of a romantic love letter to Miami'
Posted 26 Nov 2015 17:08
Sketch model of intervention ideas
Posted 26 Nov 2015 17:01
Posted 26 Nov 2015 14:10
Thumb mark as a remnant of the artisan process of brick making. As seen on Grand Designs.
Posted 26 Nov 2015 13:40
Mosaic testing for The Middlewood Way
Posted 25 Nov 2015 08:44
Workshop. Haçienda progress.
Posted 25 Nov 2015 08:11
Herbert Bayer, Lonely Metropolitan (1932)

"Vision and tactile sense are fused in actual lived experience." - The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, Juhani Pallasmaa
Posted 23 Nov 2015 22:22
Re-reading.
Fred Scott - On Altering Architecture
Posted 23 Nov 2015 22:19
Design evolution of walls in Milan.
Posted 23 Nov 2015 22:14
Threshold as buffer.
Aldo Rossi, Gallaratest II Housing, Milano 1967-72
Posted 23 Nov 2015 22:13
Understanding threshold and procession - Three Walls project.
Posted 23 Nov 2015 22:07
Stunning 1:25 facade model made from Card, acetone, etched brass sheet and angle. DRDH Architects
Posted 23 Nov 2015 22:02
Wrapping: Architects Team Up with Khmer Women to Build a Community Centre with Fabric and Concrete.
Posted 23 Nov 2015 16:51
A still from 'Il Capo', a short film showing marble quarrying in Carrara's marbles quarries in the Alps.
Posted 23 Nov 2015 14:09
“Adolf Loos radicalised Semper by postulating the first task of the architect is 'to hang the curtains of the room', that is, to decide what the atmosphere would be, and then afterwards he had to devise a structure that would keep all the curtains in place.” - Paul Vermeulen, Knitting Wrapping Weaving Pressing
Posted 23 Nov 2015 09:38
Atmosphere

- Swan Lake Rehersal, Opera de Paris (1930), Alfred Eisenstaedt
Posted 23 Nov 2015 09:37
Exploring the boundary between Art and Design in Visual Culture.
- Fluxkit, George Maciunas (1965)
Posted 23 Nov 2015 09:28
Part of my axo investigating thresholds in Bollington Market Place
Posted 22 Nov 2015 20:25
1:20 test model casting shadows in the morning sun.
Posted 21 Nov 2015 19:57
A lining of grand scale, enclosing the Bollington Market Place, contrasts with the domestic scale of the terraced house.
Posted 21 Nov 2015 08:49
"The series of walls at Edfu are detached linings. The outer linings enhance the enclosed inner spaces by making them seem protected and mysterious"
(Venturi, 1966)
Posted 21 Nov 2015 08:46
Do Ho Suh's translucent fabric forms emphasize the discontinuity of space and time in contemporary life.
Posted 21 Nov 2015 08:30
Soo Sunny Park, Unwoven Light, 2013
Posted 20 Nov 2015 04:07
Posted 20 Nov 2015 03:47
Bollington - The Old Church and Beeston Brow
Posted 20 Nov 2015 03:41
Precedents, precedents, precedents....
Posted 19 Nov 2015 10:46
Milan Iso_Via Galeazzo Alessi
Posted 18 Nov 2015 19:42