Own Work: London Historical Cartography Version 1-3 March 2014

 Historical Cartography was created by compiling historic maps of the London region, which began with the first arrival of the Romans. This was then blended with local knowledge, archeological surveys, area/street names, road and sewer routes to create a fairly precise map of what the area could have looked like in a time around 200BC, when much of the land would have been largely as it was before iron age settlers had began to alter the land with large scale agriculture. This was done in order to create a true opposite to rationalised architecture and the two were juxtaposed with each other in my future models.

It is worth noting that due to the time constrictions this map was unable to be completed using all sources. The next stage would be to incorporate studies on soil types which would alter the sizing of the forests and marshes. I will do this at a later date and create version 4, which I will take into further study and likely come out with several more refinements.

 Plotting information from the map on three dimension contours on the Thames Valley region

 London's Street Map with what is buried beneath it's surface long ago

Final Version For Masters showing these native environments with a street map overlay to pinpoint the original site context for any given site in the region

Own Work - Photography: Emulsion Lifts Gone Wrong

 For a previous project I worked on Polaroid emulsion lifts to convey a chaotic natural element (water) to something man made. I decided due to the success of this to manipulate the process by layering 2 images, one over another to show the juxtaposition between controlled environment and uncontrolled. I choose to do this in the setting of Barbican in London (A popular modernist development). Unfortunately the effect didn't make the message clear and so in large respects was a failure, however I did get some interesting distorted negatives from the back of the Polaroid film, which have proven much more interesting (below emulsion lifts).

Architecture - Witherford Waston Mann: Astley Castle c.2013

The Astley family had the castle built in Nuneaton, North Warwickshire in the 12th Century. The development is seated sensitively within the ruins allowing visitors to experience the history in a living context. Communal spaces have been placed upstairs to allow for better visibility with the ruins on a longer time span in the day.

The idea creates a palimpsestic living arrangement where the history can be read in the environment and lost stories imagined.

Source: http://ribastirlingprize.architecture.com/riba-stirling-shortlist-2013-astley-castle-warwickshire/