continuity in wellingtons

14/10/15 Bollington visit

Clarence Mill seen from White Nancy

Sketch from White Nancy

Bollington rooftops and treetops

Clarence Mill by Macclesfield Canal

Sketches of Bollington

Macclesfield Canal in autumn

Column/beam detail in pen.

Iron column to timber beam detail in living room.

Reflections and shadows on flat window as light changes outside in charcoal.

Pen drawing of view from living room window.

Victorian bin store in perspective.

Vertical slot, ribbon dormer, and stone projections on Hailwood House.

Elevational study of windows and doors.

Clarence Mill and church quick study.

View of another two mills from White Nancy.

View of Clarence Mill and the church from White Nancy.

Repetition of the gable end in the Historic Triangle

Shadows of Bollington
(Drawing workshop with David Connor)

Great end to a great day in Bollington.

Chimneys and Mills, Bollington

Beautiful details, Bollington

White Nancy, Bollington

Bollington historic tour (Boddington in bollington)

Getting lost in Bollington

Interesting Renovation project by Clavienrossier Architects, Charrat, Switzerland. Paying homage to the vernacular whilst creating a more contemporary interior living environment.

Bollington High Street - Threshold, Semi-Private/Private space.

Macclesfield Canal research

Adelphi Mill - watercolour and pen

Clarence Mill, Bollington - watercolour and ink

Scribbling and interrogating

White Nancy was built in 1817 by John Gaskell junior of North End Farm to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Waterloo.

Sublime Theory - Edmund Burke.
Burke thought that the sublime moves us more profoundly than beauty. The sublime generates a fear within us. This influence is visceral and engages us in exhilaration and delight. Burke's theories heavily influenced the Romantic period of art.

Roof heights in Bollington. Distinctive roof of form due to the undulation of landscape. Identifiable trait of Bollington domestic architecture.

Bernard Tschumi_The Manhattan Transcripts | 1980

Ben Hayes, Bartlett School of Architecture
Silver
2013 RIBA President’s Medal winners

The grand immeasurable scale of the Clarence Mill chimney. The chimney acts as a landmark or visible reference point to the Historic Triangle of Bollington.

The Macclesfield, Bollington & Marple Railway.
Basil Jeuda.
1984

Window-Inception (window through a window) photographed inside Livesey's Delicatessen in Bollington

Researching (enjoying) local produce.
Happy Valley Brewery, a family business established in 2010 in the heart of Bollington.
http://www.happyvalleybrewery.co.uk/

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

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.

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.

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