Claire-models

-Urban HideViewing Gallery for Escapist City-dwellers

Adventure Escape Explore Danger Den Revert Retreat

-Conquer-

The ‘Primitive Hut’, ‘Original Dwelling’ and Origins of Architecture

Adventure/Danger/Escape/Conquer

Architectural Conquests

King of the Castle- ‘Primitive Hut’ atop London’s Urban Jungle

Adventuring city-dwellers

Viewpoint/Hide

Under strong winds, the suspended frame shakes whilst the heavy solid oak capsule rocks gently inside its rope cradle

Rope weave cradle with oak carved capsule resting inside

Frame waiting to be woven...

Wood waiting to be lathed...

-Chocolate BoxA Suburban Playhouse

Luxury Pleasure Taste Excess Variety Choice Exhibit Craft Melt Mould

-Leisure-

Extravagant Chocolate/Wood Craft

Suburban Luxury/Extravagance/Enhancement/Exhibitionism

Semi-detached Suburban bin/bike alleys..?

Mirrors rooms within house ‘Chocolate box’ of tactile spaces

climb

meet

recline

study Pin Sculpture wall

Cut-outs assemble furniture

Elastic wooden mattress

Sliding storage boxes/furniture

Hide

Socialise Sleep Play

Store

Suburban playhouse mirrors exisiting domestic spaces

‘Chocolate box’ of spaces with different functions and tactile qualities

-Hearth HouseServices off the M40

Shelter Sanctuary Retreat Gather Warm Rest Refuge Relief

-Energy-

Rural/Urban?

Farmhouse/Cottage ruins

Motorways and Ruins

M40 Site

Clients

Biodigester- poo-oxygen=biogas+fertilizer

Construction fits around exisiting structure

“Back to nature” fleeting countryside visit

Model so far...

Existing structure, timber frame and thatch roof, hanging timber brick walls and lasercut corten windows

Timber frame and thatched roof construction

Laser cut steel corten

Off-cut timber brick construction

Materials and construction methods

Laser cut corten

Thatch

Timber bricks on rope

Moss carpet Materials and proposed construction methods