Huddersfield Museum : 2021/22
Conditions of digital / physical hybridity increasingly permeate our urban experience making it possible to speculate upon a world of dual occupancy. This projects takes a position in 2050 where technological developments such as 3D printing and virtual / augmented reality representations have become ubiquitous within everyday life to the degree the smart phone has today.
This project interesects the town of Huddersfield with this condition. The physical attributes of historic built environments within towns and cities offer a sense of inflexibility with conservation laws often pinning entire zones to support an artificially defined character ( conservation areas).
However this distanced position between inhabitants and built heritage could be said to be define by a one-way digital cataloguing of space in greater and greater detail ; its history, forms and details are recorded down to the millimeter to ensure any further decay does not occur. The inclusion of wide spread virtual representations and real-time 3D printing techniques allows the 2050's populace of Huddersfield to form and reform their environment at will, without the paralysing fear of loss which we find ourselves within today.
This reciprocity between physical and digital realms opens up a new form of agency within town centres where people can discuss and negotiate its form in a palimpsest of appearance and erasure.
Huddersfield Historic Festival : 2021/22
Conditions of digital / physical hybridity increasingly permeate our urban experience making it possible to speculate upon a world of dual occupancy. This projects takes a position in 2050 where technological developments such as 3D printing and virtual / augmented reality representations have become ubiquitous within everyday life to the degree the smart phone has today.
This project interesects the town of Huddersfield with this condition. The physical attributes of historic built environments within towns and cities offer a sense of inflexibility with conservation laws often pinning entire zones to support an artificially defined character ( conservation areas).
However this distanced position between inhabitants and built heritage could be said to be define by a one-way digital cataloguing of space in greater and greater detail ; its history, forms and details are recorded down to the millimeter to ensure any further decay does not occur. The inclusion of wide spread virtual representations and real-time 3D printing techniques allows the 2050's populace of Huddersfield to form and reform their environment at will, without the paralysing fear of loss which we find ourselves within today.
This reciprocity between physical and digital realms opens up a new form of agency within town centres where people can discuss and negotiate its form in a palimpsest of appearance and erasure.
Hyper Parliament : 2018/19
The identified spatial conditions and programmatic constraints were translated onto a post-industrial site on the East side of Birmingham. Conducted through a hybrid method, incorporating collage and associative techniques the main spaces were formed in 'plan-ish' and 'section-ish' drawings. These worked similarly to the initial drawings, allowing the free-play of elements and the generation of connections between the complex elements of site, programme, façade and digital medias.
The inherent tension between façade and function manifest themselves within a series of sketches, envisaging the functional zones as a series of tempered 'pods' with the spatial conditions optimised for the ritual considerations of the zones.
The strategy draws upon the identified disjunction between hyper-controlled function and out-of-control façade, subordinating elements to the requirements of the event. It exemplifies the façade / function disjunction by forming an interstitial zone between the outer skin and internal pods, within which services and other conditions are situated. For example viewing galleries, pointing towards the essential notion of public accountability, are positioned here.