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May 25, 2012
Rear Elevation
a Thatched London.
a taster - Film to come
Apr 14, 2012
Lost Japan
It is said that owning an old Japanese house is like bringing up a child. You have to constantly buy new clothing for it. you must replace tatami mats, repaper sliding doors, restore rotten timbers on the verandahs - you can never leave the house unattended.
p45
Thatch is not inherently expensive. Traditionally, every village had a thatch field, and the villagers harvested thatch in winter as a regular part of the agricultural cycle. They stored it along with the various types of bamboo, straw and lumber, and used these supplies communally whenever a house needed reroofing.
p48
in Lost Japan by Alex Kerr
published 1996
Feb 23, 2012
“The ultimate goal of all visual artistic activity is construction! “
Feb 2, 2012
A Waiting Room for Bermondsey
Watch on Vimeo
An architecture of fragility. A temporary room for Westminster, and a waiting room for Bermondsey
Feb 2, 2012
Film Still. A Waiting Room for Bermondsey
Feb 2, 2012
A fragile architecture for Bermondsey
Feb 2, 2012
Sketch Model. A waiting architecture
Feb 2, 2012
Observation. Bermondsey UK. Beckett House, the UK Border Agency.
The observation section of the film highlights and reflects the differences in experiences between those people queuing for their appointment at the UK Border Agency, and the commuters and local residents. The difference in speeds of those being filmed expresses the differences in their experiences
Feb 2, 2012
On Site
Feb 2, 2012
Construction and Demolition
Feb 2, 2012
The elements are unique, extremely fragile, and retain a significant quality of materiality. Around 20% of the manufactured elements do not survive to the construction of the final installation.
Feb 2, 2012
The Westminster campus is degrading. It is deteriorating, it is decaying. The robust materials of which it is constructed are disintegrating, crumbling. The building will not last forever. In fact, the building barely lasted 40 years before being extensively remodelled, and reinvigorated.
This project imagines an even more fragile architecture, and explores the qualities associated with this. By exploring fragile materials, and fragile buildings, we can make an architecture that responds better to its environment, informed by the way its appearance and form will change.
Feb 2, 2012
An architecture of fragility
These proposal seeks an architecture that is “able to capture all of the positive qualities associated with the temporary, the impermanent, the imperfect, the irregular, the perishable.” An architecture that is “fleeting yet potent, conditioned by aesthetic values that favour its necessary transitoriness.”
Chaplin, S. in “Makeshift: Some reflections on Japanese Design Sensibility
Jan 12, 2012
Dissertation: Printed, bound, glued, submitted.
Oct 27, 2011
A temporary room. First photo
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