Elliott Andrew Architecture Portfolio 2017 RIBA Part 1
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Space should be free for everyone
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01 Freespace Workshop Open-source community and enterprise space location: Hunslet, UK date: June 2015 link: eandrew.xyz/ projects/freespaceworkshop
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Elliott Andrew Sitting on the banks of the LeedsLiverpool Canal, the workshop is a civic venue for design and fabrication, providing affordable facilities, workspaces, tools and advanced machinery for all to use. The project gives life to the waterside strip of industry that has historically isolated neighbouring communities from Leeds city centre and, more recently become host to the creeping gentrification of the riverside housing developments.
Leeds city center
luxury housing
derelict site
Hunslet community
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Opening up the ground floor to the public domain provides much needed public access to the waterway, not to mention a vital through route to Leeds City Center.
The skeletal frame structure of the workshop inhabits the derelict factory space in which adaptable, moveable modules can be arranged and rearranged mechanically by the gantry crane.
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RECYCLING PLANT
ADAPTABLE OFFICE SPACES
RECYCLING CONTROL ROOM
LOADING BAY
COMMUNAL MAKING SPACE
CINEMA MODULE
COFFEE SHOP MODULE
CINEMA MODULE IN TRANSPORT
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activity that occurs as a result of its environment. This is a social, reciprocal process.
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02 Frame_ Works A network of self-build modular workshops grow from a central exhibition space and community hub location: Scarborough, UK date: February 2015 link: eandrew.xyz/ projects/frame-works
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This project is an ecosystem of social involvement, it intersects local community with the transient intrigue of tourism, whilst developing an everchanging collaborative spectacle that belongs to both. The scheme is underscored by it’s capacity for change, it embraces social diversity and it provides an adaptive forum for this diversity to be celebrated. It is truly a social frame_work
MODULAR WORKSHOPS
BUOYANT CENTRAL HUB
As the central hub moves slowly with the tide it mediates in a physical sense, the disconnect between land and sea, continually shifting the spatial experience and imposing the unpredictability of nature upon the structure.
SEA BED
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FRAME The structural elements can be assembled as per the requirements of users, to accommodate modular workshops whilst retaining adaptability as needs change. The frame can be constructed with minimal training and experience on the part of its users, requiring heavy-lifting equipment only to position the steel sections. The basic frame is the logical starting point for the ongoing process that defines Frame_Works.
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The external space is navigated by a series of exo-skeletal walkways that wrap around the Frame_Works structure. Tidal movement forces a continually changing negotiation of space and nature as the exhibition hub displaces vertically. This challenge of circulation is met by wide stepped platforms and variable-travel lifts for disabled visitors
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03 Re-use Mechanisms Transitional praxis in Berlin's liminal spaces thesis grade: First-class location: Berlin, Germany date: June 2016 link: eandrew.xyz/ projects/reuse-mechanisms
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" Abandoned space in which a series of occurrences have taken place seems to subjugate the eye of the urban photographer"
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I regularly explored deserted factories around the Midlands in England where I grew up. Old Victorian potteries and grand mills, the industrial hinterlands of Derby and Sheffield, all entertained my curious fascination with these crumbling reminders of the past. I moved to Berlin some months ago and immediately noticed many similarities between abandoned spaces here and those back home. There are physical similarities of course, but it is the social contexts that seem to surround disused spaces and how they are sometimes re-used, that intrigued me more. The preconditions for spaces falling into disuse are often localised to the city or country, whereas instances whereby people instigate re-use of these spaces, seem to be part of a much wider socio-spatial phenomenon. My research is concerned with mechanisms of re-use; transitional praxis in spaces that are caught in the lurch between disuse, and something more permanent.
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Personal Website
http://www.eandrew.xyz
A collection of my university projects and personal work date: September 2016 link: eandrew.xyz
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