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PHYSIOGNOMIC FACADE
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on a number of projects have recreated ramp as a circulation of flow around through program. This architecture resents reality as a multitude of fts rather than a series of objects
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casa da musica_porto seattle public library paris public library kunsthal netherlands embassy_berlin
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alternating public program and private hotel with unifying skin.
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urban complexity urban complexity major routes major routes
short cuts and secret spaces short cuts and secret spaces
1.10000-1.1000 the city as fragmented ghosts of small encounters. theHeld in clarity by aghostsdefined patchwork of city as fragmented more of small encounters. major passages. Held in clarity by a more defined patchwork of
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H e t e r o t o p i a Dance on Film centre Whitechapel - 2010
An emerging genre, dance-on-film, required a new semi-public building offering space for rehearsals, performance and post-production and a cinema auditorium. The large site, off East Londons Brick Lane, offered the potential for public integration and performance. The crucial relationship between the expression of dance, the medium of film and normal city life was mirrored in the special organization of the building. The main studio spaces were elevated above the street at the front of the site. To enter the building, both dancers and public would be channeled under the studios through intermediary space and enter the building from the back of the site. The movement away from, up, and towards the life of the city divorced and strengthened the dancers relationship with it whilst creating a series of small urban, public spaces without clear programmatic diktat: spaces that this part of East London lacks.
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Aluminium trim (overlaps shingles, care taken to avoid any flat surfaces where water would stand) wood joists intermediate between steel and skylight fitting. steel ring-beam triple glazed skylight operational remotely cedar wood shingles 600x250x20mm wood batons running laterally 20x20mm waterproof membrane plywood boards 20mmx1200x2400mm verticle wood joists 75mm steel i-beam 40x277mm solid insulation 220mm wood support joists 250x100mm plasterboard with concrete render 20mm
laid sarnafil waterproof roof covering (gutter moulded in) aluminum capping ply 40mm
concrete cladding 100mm (precast in panals of 600x4500mm) ties back to frame 200mm solid insulation load baring insitu concrete wall 250mm waterproof membrane continues aluminum window surround double glazing
concrete floor slab 400mm harlequin sprung floor 100mm (consists of foam pads, cross wooden batons and final wooden planking. 40mm granite floor slabs screed with under floor heating 75mm solid insulation 250mm concrete slab 330mm hardcore 150mm
the section detailed here is a cut through the dance rehersal studios. The construction
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THE SOUTHBANK
W E E K E N D I N M AY
For a weekend design Charrette led by Spencer de Gray we where asked to look in groups at how Londons troubled South Bank might be improved. We asserted that the area was in fact more suited to being part of the river than the land- and that in fact the large number of railway lines that separated South Bank from south London actually formed the boundary between North and South. We argued that the river itself as purely a transport utility was an unnecessary restraint on the city and its condition could be changed to allow a flood of new cultural institutions. We suggested that the awkward south bank be flooded. Its institutions moved onto cultural arcs and a free trade of unlimited possibility and flexibility be set up world wide. Reducing the need for Bilbao-like excess travel and assuring a constant and stabilising trade in cultural institutions on all the underused waterways in world cities.
E V E N T S A N D E X H I B I T I O N S 2009-2011
As head of exhibition for the ArcSoc Cambridge Department of Architecture Graduate Exhibition 2011, and as head curator of the second year in 2010, I have been accountable for the vast expansion and improvement of the exhibition in recent years. Last year, through fundraising from events and parties, and an intense sponsorship effort, we raised over 40,000. This funded the unprecedentedly successful and high-quality exhibition in July, which was well attended and reviewed.