CAD procrastination rock sculpture

Journey

Materiality concept model

Site Model

Control enmeshed with disorder

Control enmeshed with disorder

Making small things big

Concept model

Bollingon jali wall

Civic strategy parti diagram

Site analysis

Midas touch

Midas touch

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

Thumb mark as a remnant of the artisan process of brick making. As seen on Grand Designs.

Bollington book sleeve.

Contemporary fluting in Caruso St John's Nottingham Contemporary facade creating a textured and palpable depth.

Adam Caruso - "...the market has once again embraced almost all forms of artistic production, and even architecture has emerged as a commodity in its own right, with brand name architects producing logo buildings. I wonder if architecture has the capacity to marshall energy, to imagine an environment that holds the emotions of a place and the significance of human endeavour."

Iso sketch Bocconi University

Bocconi University by Grafton Architects

Basilica di San Lorenzo, Milano

Basilica San Lorenzo Maggiore

Shadow definition on the facade of Caruso St John's Nottingham Contemporary

Bollington site study

Bollington stone wall detail

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.

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,

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.