Showing posts with label 1st Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1st Year. Show all posts

First Year [2008]


C U B E

Exploration of the 9m x 9m 'Knowledge is Power' cube in the Promenade project. Creating as protracted a route as possible and only revealing certain vantage points along the way. Constantly spliced and pulled between the cathedral and university its original geometry becomes harder to read.


T h e  M i s a n t h r o p i s t ' s  L o f t h o u s e

Concealed behind 'pure and neurotic' Modernist lines is a sinister observatory for the Misanthropist where they indulge in their misguided reflections on humanity, recording all their provocations in a photography studio before having to cleanse themselves at the end of each day.


G A L L E R Y

As if there weren't enough students designing art galleries this was a fixed brief at the end of first year. Still, an attempt at a small gallery where the flow of people around the space, the spectacle of this journey and peoples reaction to the art collectively becomes an installation in itself. Questioning if it is the architecture supporting the art or vice versa and the role of small galleries in the city.

Architectural 'Promenade' [2007]

First individual design project to consider a 'promenade' between the Liverpool Met Cathedral and Liverpool School of Art & Design. My naive design considered the acquisition of knowledge and navigation through the philosophical themes: 'Knowledge is Power' (Bacon), 'Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance' (Confucius), and the acquisition of knowledge as a subconscious constant. These themes respectively each corresponded to a cube of dominance, void and flow. The Cathedrals relationship to the school deliberately convoluted. Pretty basic stuff. 

Water Temple [2007]

Humble Beginnings: Our group model of Tadao Ando's Water Temple. Was a forced precedent study the best introduction to the world of architecture? I think it took most people a while to recover from this method of thinking.