third year portfolio

Project 1 - 2

Our unit brief was to observe and record a border of our choice, The border had to be physical or mental, material or immaterial. It may have stretched for 10 km or 10 cm. The border recorded may have recorded movement from light to dark, from interior to exterior or presence to absence.
We were then all asked to record and express movement across the chosen border with 10 black and white photographs.

From these 10 black and white photographs we were then given the task to design an architecture that either heightens, contradicts or elaborates our defined border and its particular spatial conditions.

Cross Border Phenomena - Unit 7 - Matthew Butcher, Roger Seijo

Project 3

Our main project this year for a building proposal had to be developed out of the conceptual framework identified by ourselves in the first termʼs project
We were then asked to design a medium to large scale building which could be sited in the port of Ramsgate. We were encouraged throughout these projects to develop our own individual design agendas and complex architectural responses with a fluid approach to the design process. This approach will prioritise the movement between model and drawing, concept and form and form and program.

- Research and Initial ideas

composition of layered images to express the border and its boundaries

Effected Area mapping

Research and mapping of the outer surrounding boundaries

composition of layered images to express the border and its boundaries

1/5

Model Images

Materiality Testing

Materials Section 1:50

Model Images

1/8

“The perception of a place is affected by each of the mediating agents it passes through, from the inert material of the ground to the final frame of the beholder.”

Matthew Coolidge, Overlook: The centre for Land Use Interpretation, 2006.

Project 3.2

Plans