Continuity in Architecture 2022/23

Design for the Spanish Porta Ticinese by Francesco Maria Richini, 1633

Harmony of order and complexity.
"There are floors in which large, obtuse stones have been persuaded by a mason to take their place within a methodical grid. One senses how the excesses in the character of these stones was tempered, how they were educated out of savagery still evident in the craggy cliff-faces from which they were heaved. They had to surrender their defiance, trim their mossy beards, and smooth their warts and bunions, all for the sake of communal discipline - contributing to a floor where, as we make our way across it, we can appreciate order without danger of boredom and vigour without the shadow of anarchy."
- Alain de Botton,

Knitted artwork on the cover of "Bollington Live", a publication produced three times a year by a team of volunteer writers. Flicking through the online backlog gives an insight into the life and micro-culture of this little town.
http://www.happy-valley.org.uk/live/editions.htm#2014

Bollington Station, c.1905
Featured in "looking back at Bollington"
by G Longden & M Spink

Researching a 'Lost' Space of Milan

Milan. Skyscrapers. Current development.

Mountain drawing study. If in doubt drawing something.

Porta Ticinese, drawing showing the only remaining section of the roman walls in Milan

Curious Manchester and the multifunctional space of Store street - the venue for Warehouse Project, and a peak into the ex air raid shelter, all underneath Piccadilly Station.

The Italian Townscape, Ivor de Wolfe - Applying Cullen to the urban realm of Milan with Sam Beddingfield

Looking at building typology and composition with Sam Beddingfield.

'The use of marble was necessary during this period to restrict the use of iron that was needed for armaments' Università Bocconi

Early investigations into Milanese typology around the Darsena with Kris James.

Lost spaces workshop with Simina and Charlotte: making of FAC86R: The Hacienda cut out model! On the way to design one of our own!

Lost Spaces Workshop. Initial Sketch Model. Battistero Paleocristiano.

New and Old; Sir Thomas Street, Liverpool

Female Perspective

Proposed Entrance Drawing: Liverpool Cathedral

I found an article from Dezeen about the RUF receiving an a prize at the Chicago Biennale for Humanitarian Architecture. "Their work is exemplifying how architecture should establish a dialogue with the community and the environment in order to build structures that respond to their changing needs." Have a read: http://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/01/rural-urban-framework-awarded-curry-stone-design-prize-humanitarian-chicago-architecture-biennial-2015/

Sunday morning spent exploring a sleepy Bollington.

The August/September issue of Mark magazine has a large feature on the ongoing cultural resurgence in Milan and the Expo - ‘an extravagant temple to consumption, waste and the corporate dollar’.

Revisiting the New Art Gallery interior for traces of Loos. Lots inwards and backwards glances throughout the Garman Ryan Collection. Much of the gallery, including the main double height space, can be observed from this single window up the staircase to the next gallery.

Creating a digital prototype for our Privacy + Publicity model. This was where we uncovered the fun scale of that first floor cantilever and that the facade above the third floor was pretty much floating.

Transport route along the Ticino and Naviglio Grande (14th century)

Darsena in 1964

Interesting coffee shop reading:
“Secret Venice: guide to the city's best campi, or squares”

Psychological scale from vulnerable to secure, influenced by the volume of space and the lines of sight.

Continuous volume of social space. Views through the threshold frame the activities in the 'domestic theater'.

Convoluted circulation creates a journey to the more private areas of the domestic domain, heightening the sense of security and comfort.

A sculpture of a shell providing intrigue and delight through its exaggeration of scale and reflective texture. Marc Quinn, at London Design Week.

Some windows and doors at the ready. #teammollerhouse

March Yr 1 Adolf Loos Muller House progress

Nobody is paying attention to the beautiful sunset..

Team Moller House hard at work