thats it….
the final hand in of my Architecture degree. The final project was about isolation and an island research outpost called the Land Observatory, it only seemed fitting to construct a “crate” to present my work in, as if it were a delivery to the island itself.
I am totally engaged with this project now, and I dont really know how to stop working with it….
some sheets from my final crit, my building on the face of it is about observation and acts as an outpost like Scotts Cabin, but underneath that it is a dark place of isolation, where everyday activities are intensified into events.
wheels, steel, and movement…its not a building any longer, it feels like a slow vehicle. Is this architecture, am I an Architect ?.
The final project of my degree has grown. It lumbers in a circle around the island on which it is held, giving shelter to researchers and scientists and observers of coastal erosion, the building is a land observatory, it is like Scotts Cabin, a shelter in a difficult environment, sitting in the island in the seascape, it moves with the coming and going tide on which it maneuvers casting its telescopes on the changing mainland.
The retreating house was handed in just after new year and was scored with a disappointingly sounding satisfactory, sounds harsh, but its the highest rating you can get at this stage (apparently) the final portfolio sheets where sombre dark and brooding, I will get round to posting them soon, in the meantime here is a sneak preview of the next and last project of my Architecture Degree: It’s a desalination plant sited on a failed freshwater holding reservoir, the building not only reverses the failure of the experiment but it also provides a port of call in a storm for a stranded salt flat wader caught on the island at high tide. Its a twisted shelter that a person can climb inside and be safe in.
AnonymousThanks for the compliment, I think your the first to comment on my work, It’s nice to know that it has been seen and liked.
another image from the retreating house project, a bed in prime position behind a large glazed facet, the occupant muses over the sea.
the images come from a sketch up model, but will need some post production inking by hand.
an interior in progress The Retreating House at Overstrand, its a timber cave situated in an eroding cliff, it moves on train bogeys along a rail moving over time with the landscape, I was unaware of the scheme by Smout Allen for Happisburgh (round the corner) where they visualized a whole village in retreat, similarly on rails….
