Additionally, I have been looking at possible ideas for desired form and clustering of workshops within the site. Looking at the creation of a university courtyard with the existing context of the buildings and stepping down my proposal with the gradient of the site.

I have been exploring the idea of allotments (which inhabit the ramped landscape) protruding into the soffit of the ramped entrance level on the north bank of the Thames. These structures which are all 12.5 meters square and require an hour of attention each per week, could span the width of the building and the profile be a part of the structure. The image below shows the entrance sequence and the mentioned allotments.

Initial thoughts are that the allotments are terraced, to maximise the amount of  sun reaching each plot. Irrigation and nutrients could be provided by a network of pipes which interlink the separate plots, providing optimum growing conditions.

Initial view of the under carriage of the proposal, with the service station in the foreground and the administration block in the distance.

P.S. These images are only intended to represent a snapshot of where the design is and are not representative in terms of material or structure!

I returned to my infrastructure model this week, adding more detail as the proposal develops. The piers have been added which provide the structure for the form to evolve, with a ‘wired’ framework linking each of the piers. Initial design moves have been added, with pontoons represented by mesh at water level and a ramped landscape weaving its way between the piers.

A project by HHD_FUN in collaboration with an artist Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai). The exterior triangulation is all a bit stylised and empty but the interior may be of interest:

‘This temporary, interactive installation was based on the concept of ‘complex systems’ which can observe, perceive and research our living world, society and biology. Virtual architecture is embedded into various cities and regions within Google earth projected onto the floor, within the internal space of the installation. Motion sensors track the movement of the audience within the internal space, and the projectors respond according to these inputs. By using this interactive technology, members of the audience can trigger and control the projected scene by changing the displacement of their own body or altering the distance between each other within the projective regions. The audiences are provided with unusual perspectives to view the globe, our city, open fields, as well as the algorithmic architectures embedded into the Google Earth projection.’

HT: Dezeen