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NOTTINGHAM DESIGN PROCESS REPORT: ITERATIONS AND EXPERIMENTATION
DESIGN THROUGH MAKING CHARLIE HARRIS
“How can new interventions be made and built fabric restored, using modern design and fabrication methods, without detracting from the original building and in doing so how can we reveal what is authentic in the built fabric and expose the means of production and procurement?� Design Intent Statement
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CONTENTS
OVERVIEW
AUTHENTICITY FORM SURFACE MOTIF Design Intent
Responses to site and general arrangement conditions
Material Exploration
A louvered screen
AUTHENTICITY
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FORM
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Re-using the triangular central island as a core transitional space
Initial massing studies, responding to site and general arrangement qualities
Making new openings in response to facade rhythms
Hotel developed within “Red House� as a series of projecting boxes
Celebrating access through grand staircases
Stepped roof-scape allows for rooftop planting
1:20 hotel room study investigates internal qualities and spatial requirements
Smithfield street Elevation - mediating the changing roof-scape heights.
Rooftop planting
Inserting new program above existing fabric
Inserting new program above existing fabric
Louvred screens form a partial threshold
Development of hotel rooms
Making new openings in response to facade rhythms
Re-interpreting the roof-scape
Development of the louvred screen as a motif throughout the scheme
Screen pulls apart theatrically like drawn curtains
Screen is pulled apart to express the constraints of the “Red House�, with hotel rooms projecting through it
Board-formed concrete
SURFACE
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Weathering steel White painted steel Brushed stainless steel Black painted steel
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Investigating finishes for cladding See motif chapter for further details
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MOTIF
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The development a screening system as and architectural motif has been central to the poetics of the project. The screen gives a direct connection to the craft of fabrication, dramatises the quality of light and distinguishes spaces. As an external screen, it can be used in various applications throughout the scheme and at different scales.
Mesh screens
Metal louvers were chosen due to their connection with the Victorian ironmongery around the site and the farriers itself.
Development of metal louvres
1:20 model
1;1 mock-ups express qualities of light and shadow