The power of the diagram.

Whilst I sit here and cobble together my interim portfolio for my final year of my Part 2 I am pouring over what I have spent the past few months learning under my fantastic tutors from Mae Architects in Unit 5 at the endangered CASS. We were tasked to study a particular example of split-level…

Can the UK ever match the Dutch ‘cycle life’?

Hello again Milton Keynes my old friend. I’ve taken a Urban Planning & Theory module this year, it seemed like a far more appealing option than writing about touching buildings (yes this was actually one of the highlights of another module on offer…) Part of the assessment is to write an essay, on what seems…

What to do in a crisis: make a poster.

It’s the night before tutorials – again. And again I am panicking because throwing fifty pieces of scrappy trace with drawings on is not exactly what my tutors will want. I’ll never learn. It’s easy to know what’s going on in your own head – it is the putting it down on paper in a clear,…

A Vertical Village: I like this moniker

I have just seen the phrase ‘Vertical Village’ and I think this moniker may be a little bit fantastic. So, naturally I googled it. Loads of wonderful images popped up and I have seen some elements that I want to test within my ‘Towers’. It begs the questions – how can you design high rise living feel…

Is this the colourful answer to my warehouse?

  I’ve been racking my brains about how this ‘Warehouse’ is going to be a successful part of my residential forms – whatever they are at the moment I am not too sure. I’ve been staring at the standard (ugly) type of modern industrial warehouse for weeks, hoping that maybe if I look at them for long…

The most beautiful but highly impractical stair

Is there anything more delightful to look at than a sectional axonometric drawing? Absolutely not. This is Gago House in Chile by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. I was slightly obsessed with the circulation core of this house last semester and the way in which each room opened off a petal of the spiral staircase. Oh it…