Friday, 7 October 2011
Wey & Arun Canal Regeneration @ Tannery Basin
The Wey & Arun Trust asked students at Kingston to create a regeneration scheme for a section of the canal at Tannery Basin. In response to the local surroundings and history of the area I came up with a scheme that tackles the issue of flooding on site and the reintroduction of a farmers market that was present at this location 100 years ago. Addressing the concept of a temporal landscape I have proposed the use of innovative materials that are constructed using plant material, seeds and pollen so that over time a new landscape can be created without the need to remove any waste materials from site, they can simply be buried.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Purfleet Riverside Regeneration
A neglected piece of space located along the southern point of the Mardyke River in Purfleets that acts as not only a boundary between Rainham and Purfleet but Havering and Thurrock as well. It is also evident that the site acts as a social and economic divide.
As with many industrial towns Purfleet suffers from a lack of investment and in particular a lack of high quality public open space. However Purfleet is part of the governments Sustainable Communities Agenda and they predict that the towns population will nearly triple in size by 2021.
My proposal reflects on information provided by Thurrocks Thames Gateway Development consultant Steve Plumb, Thurrocks Biodiversity Action Plan, the history of the area and my own observations and research.
The proposal looks at the concepts of play, growth and community.
As with many industrial towns Purfleet suffers from a lack of investment and in particular a lack of high quality public open space. However Purfleet is part of the governments Sustainable Communities Agenda and they predict that the towns population will nearly triple in size by 2021.
My proposal reflects on information provided by Thurrocks Thames Gateway Development consultant Steve Plumb, Thurrocks Biodiversity Action Plan, the history of the area and my own observations and research.
The proposal looks at the concepts of play, growth and community.
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Design Elements
Looking into some of the design elements for the mushroom tunnels proposal for Richmond Park
Experimenting with lighting
These models are of a section of reference park and are only 10cm by 10cm. I wanted to experiment with artificial lighting and the use of small scale figures to create an impression of "being" in the model.
Richmond Park Mycotecture
This is the final sheet and is an amalgamation of the research and experimentation of the fungus within Richmond Park. The link below directs you to a Google map and identifies some of the species that I identified and shows where they were discovered.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid= 217174796334975038128.00049241f8cf5cca09e23
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid= 217174796334975038128.00049241f8cf5cca09e23
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