Own Work: Half Way Show May 2014

 Images from my work at the Chelsea College of Art MA Interior Spatial Design Interim Show May 2014. I displayed the 'Trellick Tower x King's Holt' model, as well as 'Historical Cartography' from which it was derived.

Own Work: Making Blocks December 2013

Based on results from the tile, I decided that is was better to allow natural entropy to take place on samples with a much wider scope for spontaneous results. I choose to experiment in concrete (due to its use in brutalism and modernist Utopian visions) and categorised 7 different entropy methods: Heat, Force, Water, Plants, Pioneer Plants, Soil, and Wind.

Force

 Pioneer

Heat

 Plant

 Soil

 Wind

Water

Own Work - Site Visit: Barbican Oct 2013

 The Barbican is a vast estate built during the 1960s and the 1970s designed by Chamberlin, Powell, and Bon; in the centre of London. Before this the area was devastated by world war 2 bombings making it a target site of regeneration. It consists of an art centre, library, school, museum, public gardens and many housing blocks. It also once contained a medical facility, fire station, and a YMCA.

Site of the Barbican as construction begins in the 1960's

Example of a floor plan in part of the housing blocks

Another prototype of an apartment in the estate

Publicity poster cross-section of the Barbican Arts Centre

The Barbican is a prime example of brutalist architecture in the UK and is now grade II listed. Originally some elements were proposed to be white and clad in marble (which is why some of the walls are textured, see photos below), the Barbican vision was gradually scaled back due to costs.

Due to the utopian ideas involved in the vision of this estate,  I went to investigate to see how nature had begun to effect this estate with age and to see if any juxtapositions had begun to form.

Interestingly I found there was a battle for control, between the organised planting plinths (some of which were empty fostering no life, and the cracks in the brick work where there was an abundance. It's funny how we seek to control nature and choose where it should develop and how, yet it is uncontrollable, making a never ending battle.