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final year
URS.U.S Urban Synthesis
From diagnoses of issues and characteristics at a variety of scales (local, intermediate, global), URS.U.S Urban Synthesis places focus on a number of ‘meanwhile uses’ which are intended to provide a
‘quick and dirty’ intervention for the socio-spatial issues at the scale of the site, whilst working towards integrating or resolving larger scale issues.
These meanwhile uses will allow buildings and in-between spaces to become inhabited and occupied, potentially acting as a catalyst for bringing about more long term change. The proposal includes an outdoor art gallery and festival, use of empty plots as allotments and for bioremediation and use of empty buildings and plots as enterprise incubators.
Potential developments from this, for example,
would be use of biomass (planting, sewage, waste) as biofuel for energy production with an output of clean water. The strategy aims to put in place a framework for catalysts that might ultimately lead to a more coherent, unified and synergetic Ursus.
Project in collaboration with Suzanne O'Donovan.
ANAMNESIS: heritage activation through the reformative landscape.
The project explores mechanisms of soil remediation treatments asa means to re-activate, expose and as a result preserve and buildupponthe existing heritage of Ursus,intertwined with socio ecological and economical changes.
The formation of the landscape integrates treatments in a phased development, bridging between land-form and built form. The project development comes as a response to two main conditions generated by the rapid urbanisation and economic instability: The first is of an environmental span, generated by theremoval of industries that leave behind vast land of contaminatedpost industrial soil; while the other one is of a social span,triggered by deterioration of the factory’s former activity and economic prosperity.
The integration of soil remediation urgencyto a phased introduction of layered activities on site, taking into account the social implications triggered by these developments is sought throughout the project.
FoodBank [Plymouth, UK]
From diagnoses of issues and characteristics at a variety of scales (local, intermediate, global), URS.U.S Urban Synthesis places focus on a number of ‘meanwhile uses’ which are intended to provide a
‘quick and dirty’ intervention for the socio-spatial issues at the scale of the site, whilst working towards integrating or resolving larger scale issues.
These meanwhile uses will allow buildings and in-between spaces to become inhabited and occupied, potentially acting as a catalyst for bringing about more long term change. The proposal includes an outdoor art gallery and festival, use of empty plots as allotments and for bioremediation and use of empty buildings and plots as enterprise incubators.
Potential developments from this, for example,
would be use of biomass (planting, sewage, waste) as biofuel for energy production with an output of clean water. The strategy aims to put in place a framework for catalysts that might ultimately lead to a more coherent, unified and synergetic Ursus.
FoodBank Network
The Foodbank Network strategy is a programme for ‘culminating resources’ to tackle the current
problem of Food poverty within Plymouth.
By utilising the water transportation network as a
future sustainable option to freight movement
around the UK, the maintenance and supply of
Food Produce between the Coastal Cities of the
South West provides the opportunity for Plymouth as a city to regain an identity as a Hub of network activity intrinsic to, the interrelation and interaction between cities tackling a National problem.
This will be provided through maritime Industry and not only the refitting and reusing of the vessels
themselves, but the maintenance and upkeep of
the system.
Project in collaboration with Ian McNeill.
Masters projects
Anamnesis: Heritage Activation through the reformative Landscape_Historical Introduction and concepts
Anamnesis: Heritage Activation through the reformative Landscape_Theoretical introduction and development analysis
Anamnesis: Heritage Activation through the reformative Landscape_Masterplan proposal
Anamnesis: Heritage Activation through the reformative Landscape_Building proposal, spaces axonometric
Anamnesis: Heritage Activation through the reformative Landscape_Design intentions and layout
Anamnesis: Heritage Activation through the reformative Landscape_Textiles Production line analysis and proposition
Anamnesis: Heritage Activation through the reformative Landscape_Gallery space construction details and presentation
Anamnesis: Heritage Activation through the reformative Landscape_Concrete and Plaster experimentation models
Urban Strategy
first year
