Nine Square Grid by Pearl Ting Ho. Serving as inspiration and I don't even properly get it.
Posted 19 May 2016 15:44
Sam B
Night time park study inspired by Rene Magritte and Sally Stone.
Posted 30 Apr 2016 16:07
Fluted brass. Rhythm and texture. Also shiny.
Posted 14 Apr 2016 19:13
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
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
a quick test collage for an empty room.
Posted 15 Mar 2016 16:05
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
Jolly mid week review with Doug.
Posted 16 Dec 2015 17:15
Peter Brook on the fundamentals of theatre.
Posted 2 Dec 2015 19:57
Interior's mapping of the long shot of Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birman (2015).
Backstage journey as performance.
Backstage journey as performance.
Posted 30 Nov 2015 13:20
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
Monadock's Landmark, Nieuw Bergen. Just a lovely building. Tower for tower's sake.
Posted 9 Nov 2015 19:07
Approving proofs of our Darsena investigation book.
Posted 4 Nov 2015 12:47
The agora at David Chipperfield's MUDEC. We managed to slip in ahead of the buildings' opening next week.
Posted 24 Oct 2015 20:20
Donato Bramante's trompe-l’œil in Santa Maria presso San Satiro creates the illusion of a cavernous space upon entering the church. In reality the choir is less the a metre deep. Thinking about theatre sets.
Posted 24 Oct 2015 20:17
'House of Memory' by Baukuh in Porta Nuova. Historic photos from the archive inside are recreated with brick pixels in the facade. (Featuring Kris James and Ketil Rage)
Posted 24 Oct 2015 20:06
Filling the gaps in our Darsena Design Guide with a little help from a local.
Posted 17 Oct 2015 19:56
Simultaneously learning about the UK planning system and diagramming Milanese Banister House typology.
Posted 13 Oct 2015 16:17
Looking into layout for our Darsena Design Guide. Book borrowed from Suzanne.
Posted 10 Oct 2015 17:16
INA Casa by Gio Pont, 1955. Prototype for social housing in Milan. Influence seen through Darsena/Navigli region.
Posted 8 Oct 2015 16:47
Diagrams by Maria Grazia Corsini for Urban Morphology exploring the development of the courtyard typology in medieval Milan.
Posted 7 Oct 2015 19:32
Early investigations into Milanese typology around the Darsena with Kris James.
Posted 5 Oct 2015 16:53
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’.
Posted 4 Oct 2015 11:29
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.
Posted 4 Oct 2015 11:24
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.
Posted 4 Oct 2015 11:15