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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