MARIYA LAPTEVA stage 3 Academic Portfolio
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DISSERTATION ABSTRACT
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La Machine Barcelona Division
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BA CHARRETTE
VAMOS! festival
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STAGE 2 SELECTION OF WORK
Section-Alley (group project) Civic Centred Simplicity Economy Home Placed-Displaced
LIST OF CONTENTS
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DISSERTATION ABSTRACT
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GRADUATION PROJECT
The problem of this studio is a major addition to an existing heritage building. The course requires an understanding of the meaning of the old building in all of the ways its architecture and materials express the values it sought to represent and serve both at the time nowadays, and in the ways that meaning might or might not be extended, enriched or transformed and reshaped by the new addition. The proposed course consists on the extention of the Lit&Phil Independend Library in Newcastle upon Tyne. The existing building was designed by John Green in Bolbec garden, and opened in 1825 to host The Literary and Philosophical Society. From that moment on the architecture of the new building was partially transformed to accommodate the extention of Bobec Hall, and its surroundings suffered a strong evolution. The task of the studio is to add a new volume to the Lit&Phil with the same dimensions as the existing building. The shape and location of the new extention will be defined by each student according to his/her own design strategy.
building on what is already built Tutors:
Dr. Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes Sam Clark
THE COURTYARD
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SITE OBSERVATIONS Located in the centre of Newcastle’s concervation area, the Lit&Phil is barely noticeable within it’s urban context. Pressed from its sides by The Mining Society’s building and Bolbec Hall, and Central Station’s car park behind, the building makes it obvious that it requires ‘air’ and ways to make it more welcoming. A main aim of the project was established - the design solution should allow for a more defined public space, which makes the Lit&Phil stand out and be the centre of its surroundings
Historic Milestones The Hidden Volumes Central Station construction
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Extention to Station 1890
The extention of Central Station (now the car park) nearly touches the Lit&Phil. Even though flat on top, it hides underneath it exciting opportunities in the form of the arched structure used to construct it. The model below depicts the hidden volumes on site. The arches’ logic and distribution will be used to guide the design decisions to follow.
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THE LIT&PHIL
site and historic background
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DESIGN INSPIRATION The Society It is important to become familiar with the client, which is the Lit&Phil society and understand the nature of the activities it part-took in throughout the history of its existance, in order to be familiar with their needs. Established in 1793, the Society took a leading part in presenting inovations in science and collecting art. Some milestones are their acceptrance of women early in their history into the society, the prohibition of topics such as politics and religion; scientific lectures, collecting art - statues, painings; their spectacular record collection started in 1960s, and involvement with cultural activities like concerts and exhibitions. The Society used to be at the head of all innovation presented in Newcastle, but today, the library is not very popular.
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The brief should propose ways of rekindling their activities, providing appropriate spaces (conversation
space, gallery, music room, library, lecture hall) and creating a new interest in the society and the building.
1. Supportive of new ideas and inventions 2.No politics and religion allowed in conversation club 3. First club to allow women as members 1.
4. A new way of cataloging 5. Collecting art and exhibiting it 6. Educational lectures where women are allowed to participate. 7. A music collection after 1960s 8. Music concerts and supportive of local artists.
BUILDING ISSUES book collection The variety of activities within the building soon resulted in need of more space, and since it wasn’t available, due to the Central station extention, the building started growing in an unhealthy and parasitic way by just adding more and more attachments to it. A need for a defined extention volume, large enough to accommodate some of the functions fully was established.
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All the attachments in the alleys will be removed and insted a big and open public space and building will be introduced in order to allow for all functions to work and not clash with each other.
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THE LIT&PHIL
the society and the bulding
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SITE RESPONSE As previously established, the Lit&Phil building is suffocated on all sides by its surrondings. A new public space in the form of a courtyard will be introduced to relieve the pressure. It will act as a spill out space for both the Lit&Phil and the Mining Institute. The intervetions within the building include separation of function the gallery and public library will be accommodated in the new extention, while the conversation club and old books will remain, as they are the original image of the society. The music room and collection will also remain in the original building.
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BUILDING DIVISION
ACCESS TO BUILDINGS
ACCESS, CENTRE
VISUAL CONNECTIVITY
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PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS
The Courtyard defines the new center of the Lit&Phil Complex, while the interest in the hidden volumes defines the design responce. The diagram above show the key idea behind the design. It proposes the inversion of language - while the Lit&Phil hides its key space, the new additions will be led by the desire to reveal the hidden spaces.
THE LIT&PHIL
site responce. the rules.
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THE ‘BEFORE’ 1:500 model
As noted before, an interest was expressed in the hidden volumes on site and the task of revealing them through the building design and landscaping was set. The linear motion of the train lines was taken into account. Since historically, where the car park is now there used to be train tracks, the masterplan will consider revealing that information as well.
THE ‘AFTER’ 1:500 model The model shows the intervention and the extent of the masterplan - the ared between the new building and central station.
THE LIT&PHIL
site responce. before - after the rules.
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MASTERPLANNING The Park The masterplan extends the idea of the invered spaces by complimenting the existing and the history of the location. Two types of paving are used to express two separate but interlocking characteristics of the space - brick paving making the strutural arches underneath obvious, and concrete paving, mimicking the old trainlines that used to be there before the carpark. The rest is soft landscaping, providing pleasant green areas in the centre of Newcastle, linking to the Lit&Phil.
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Outdoor Cinema The change includes the addition of an outdoor seating for a cinema, as well as a services room for the park underneath.
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Book Kiosk main access - Orchard str outdoor cinema auditorium
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New Neville Hall entrance Courtyard Main extention building New offices extention into Bolbec Hall
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APPROACH Book Kiosk A temporary book kiosk was placed in the narrow alley between Neville Hall and The Lit&Phil, It provides a temporary and adaptable presence on the street whenever needed and links with the idea of honesty of expression and function. This is a library.
Outdoor Cinema
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The cantilievered auditorium defines the entrance to the couryard, and also can be used as a screen for outdoor cinema projections.
THE LIT&PHIL
Masterplanning. APPROACH
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THE COURTYARD The Tree The tree breaks the barrier between internal and external spaces, by growing out of the gallery and bringing human scale to the courtyard.
Elevation Design Analysis of existing building proportion in order to visually link the new extension to the old elevation, to enable the addition to look natural on site. The scale will depend on original proportions. Vertical and horisontal division was considered.
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Approach from Central Station
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The proportion analysis resulted in a volume (containing the library), visible both day and night, but creating different light effects. The volume’s proportion directly relates to the Lit&Phil elevation (it does not disrupt the scale of it)
THE LIT&PHIL
APPROACH. Couryard design.
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THE LIT&PHIL
plans
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SECTION a-a The section cuts through the main extention, showing the library volume, bobec hall and the new entrance.
Bolbec Hall
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The even space on the top of Bolbec hall has been designed. Structure is added to support the wall.
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SECTION b-b The section cuts through the old volume of the reading room. It shows the new music collection and performance space, and the gallery underneath the courtyard and the arches.
THE LIT&PHIL
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library (hanging bookshelves)
junction between old and new. entrance
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MAIN access to library (hanging cast books)
INTERIOR VIEWS Linking to the sections on the previous pages.
entrance between buildings
gallery (view on elevation) music collection and performance space (liftable stage platform)
THE LIT&PHIL
interior views
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BOLBEC HALL ROOF Structure has been added to support the exposed wall, which also supports spot lights and sound systems for the stage. The roof can house small music and theatrical events.
BOOKSHOP The bookshop is located in the alley between Neville Hall and The Lit&Phil (the wider section). The book kiosk occupies the narrow part facing the street.
THE LIT&PHIL
stage and bookshop
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PROPOSED GALLERY SPACE
The proposal for the gallery includes cutting the arches and replacing their ‘legs’ with steel columns to create a large open plan flexible space to house the collection of the society and visiting exhibitions.
THE LIT&PHIL
gallery space
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STRUCTURE The diagram shows the structure. It zooms in to specific areas, like the hanging bookshelves (supported by the primary structure); the glass used in the elevation - part reflective, part transmitant; the detail of replacement of the wall with columns to support the original roof of the Lit&Phil.
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THE LIT&PHIL
structure. sectional view
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BRIEF
The site is located in ‘Poblenou’, an ex-industrial quarter to the East of the City Centre. Can Ricart occupies the central core of 4 joined blocks of Cerda’s city extention. The site currently houses a number of existing residents, functions and activities. Only few buildings of Can Ricart are currently occupied. The existing buildings of Can Ricart are to be transformed into the Catalan Headquarters for a theatre company called La Machine, a Freanch collective including artists, stage designers, craftsmen who specialise in the construction of unusial objects and props and produce urban performances. The schedule of accommodation must occupy part of the existing structures but also a new-built element that should be a minimum area of 600m2.
Tutor:
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DESIGN INSPIRATION
The main driving force behind the design process was the interest expressed towards the current conditions on site. The decay and the sense of scale of the industrial complex of Can Ricart were fascinating and lead to the ideas of respecting and ‘avoiding’ the existing structure, but also making it an undividable part of the design. The initial steps in the process were the making of a design code, which would inform the decisions in later stages. Reoccurring concepts were the ones expressed in the four conceptual notions on the right.
1. Presenting the possibilies for different types of motion on site, allowing for play with circulations and visitor and performance realms.
2 A representation of the scale present on site - providing opportunities for working with window openings and their transformation
3 Expressing interest in the existing building fabric and typology on site.
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CAN RICART
design inspiration
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DESIGN CODE The design code provides a framework of thoughts and is a starting point realting all the scales together. It is derived from the interest expressed towards the exciting building fabric, repetition of elements on site, the needs of the client and the aesthetic needs of the site. It is the initial set of rules used as a guide throughout the project. They lead to the development of?a modular approach towards the design of the needed accommodation, which later becomes a driving force behind the design decisions.
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The masterplan proposes the demolition of part of building 3, as well as joining it with building 2 to allow the creating of the larger spaces needed by La Machine in order to work on large scale projects, but also providing visual and physical access and exit to and from the linear, building non-overlapping site, making 3 (closes to public areas) the public realm of the site, containing the cafĂŠ and the start of the exhibition space.
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masterplanning
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THE MODULE
The main concept of the design was derived from conditions of site. The diagram on the right depicts the particular aspects that were looked at. The design exploration was started with interest in the existing typology on site, namely the pitched roofs that define the site’s industrial profile; the relationship between the human and machine/factory scale; and the existing profile on site. The new insertions are derived from the existing profile on site. A decision was made to respect the typology by inserting a module with a ‘house’ profile, which would complete the structure to a similar state of when it was a working textile factory. It would dictate the structural form and in order to avoid damaging of the old building, the module respects it and avoids it, by being ‘shifted’ thus wrapping and exposing the old wall, and also providing inbetween spaces.
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FIRST THOUGHTS
CAN RICART
the module
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SITE PLAN The module extends everywhere on site, providing a resolution for the whole complex. Two moving modules are inroduced acting as gates, allowing the parade to pass through the building when it leaves and comes back.
The circulation was divided into two scales human and machine. The diagrams below depict the two - human in red and machine in orange. They do not intersect. This provides a clean solution for the circulation, allowing for independent exhibition space function and intedependent workshop function.
1:200 model of building
1:500 site model
The extention of the tower up allows for better connection to the see and the mountain, connection the site to the city better.
CAN RICART
site resolution
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MOVING MODULE intial thoughts The moving module is a gate allowing for the Machines to spill out to the public space. It has a custom gear mechanism to move it.
RESOLUTION
The images on this page show the way the gate moves, and the mechanism that moves it. The actual gate is supported by a light steel frame structure with thin plywood cladding. A railing has been designed to allow for sliding of the gate. As the human scale circulation passes through it, a draw bridge has been designed to allow flexibility of movement.
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Process of building the 1:50 model. (plywood, casting plaster, acrylic, metal dowels)
The model shows the gate, the gallery passage under the workshop, the circulation above the workshop.
CAN RICART
1:50 model
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ELEVATION STUDY The image on the left shows a juxtaposition between the elevation before and after the module intervention. The mentioned portal frame supports an intermediate floor, which also ‘avoids’ the existing structure. The timber panel cladding, common throughout the whole intervention contrasts the rough texture of the old. Part of the old structure remain revealed and parts are hidden, but it remains intact. The image provides an example of two types of junction between old and new – when the portal frame oversteps the old and when it remains within. Details of the junctions will follow in this section.
RESOLUTION A steel portal frame seemed most appropriate for such an intervention, due to its slender nature, great spans, and ability to overstep, without interrupting other forms of construction (in this case – the old wall). It allows for a completely independent structure, which reinforces the ideas mentioned previously – namely respecting the old structure but using it as a guideline to how the module is placed on site and providing the possibility to keep the aesthetics of the site.
NB: The site is resolved to the extent of the brief. The rest is indicated in accordance to the modular approach.
CAN RICART
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SECTION a-a The section shows clearly the overstepping structure. and the ways it is inhabited by the machines.
CAN RICART
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atelier, overlooking machines
INTERIORS entrance to La Machine
bridge between buildings
exhibition space
human scale under machine scale -exhibition gallery under machine gallery
CAN RICART
interiors
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THE PARADE green - machines red- human circulation
small machine exhibition (not part of parade)
Parade start, view on exterior space, passage under exhibition space visible
stage for performances, wainging for parade to start
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CAN RICART
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ROOF JUNCTION Following the information given earlier, this page provieds a close-up on how the module interacts with the old structure. The following details depict how the portal frame ‘avoids’ the existing structures in order to form spaces inbetween the old and new construction.
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a - cast-in-situ concrete beam used to level existing wall b- pre-oxidized steel I-beam 260mm deep
WALL JUNCTION
Continuing on the idea of the independent intervention, the micro scale detail depicts an intermediate floor, where the new built relates to the an existing fenestration opening. The new portal frame and the intermediate floor does not use the existing wall as a structural element but it uses the window opening as a threshold to a small observation balcony facing the public space where the La Machine parade starts.
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CAN RICART
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BA CHARRETTE 2013
VENUE FOR DRINKS
In the spirit of the Vamos Festival, we concentrated on recycled materials. The main hall of the space was created by using triangular piences of OSB. The bar was built entirely from the off-cuts.
CHARRETTE
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STAGE 2 condensed
CIVIC CENTRED page 65
SECTION ALLEY page 63
PLACED-DISPLACED page 69
SIMPLICITY ECONOMY HOME page 67
BA CHARRETTE 2012 page 71
SECTION-ALLEY Site The brief of this project asked for a small temporary timber installation, which will house a busking festival in on of the chares on Quayside. The site we chose is Dog Leap Stairs, located next to Black Gate. The rhythmic pattern of the railway arches seemed appropriate for such an event since the arches act as natural amplifiers that channel the sound deeper into the site depending on their different size and openness. Their varying acoustic qualities warrant a different instrument that requires specific acoustics to optimise its effect. The hard surfaces of the enclosing buildings reflect the sounds. Because of that percussion instruments seemed the best choice for the site.
Festival Proposal
Each arch contains a small stage and recording equipment for one instrument so that the musician can record each instrument separately then loop and combine them in different combinations to create dense layers of sound. The audience also has limited control over what they hear via listening devices that allow the person to hear the music from the perspective of a different seating area.
Performers Showing the six different stages for the festival, each spesific for type of instrument.
Audience The audience sections of the installation are located separately from each other, scattered onto the grassy areas of the site. Even so, they are not isolated from each other, as they are connected by means of sound. Each seating area is equipped with three sculptural tubes, two of which are receivers and one a transmitter, thus enabling visitors to hear noises from different parts of the site, even thou they are not physically there. This system provides the opportunity to also experience the percussions rhythms and music in different ways, since the tubes also transmit music, by that creating new combinations between sounds on site.
SECTION-ALLEY
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CIVIC CENTRED Site The brief of this project asked for a medium scale public building, situated in Tynemouth. The site that was chosen is the Pier site, and the programmes are leisure and culture. The building will accommodate a cycling club, which joins indoor cycling activities, BMX and bring a logical conclusion to the existing cycling route via the old railway. The culture part of the building is to be a small library with a collection on sports photography. The site was striking with its linearity and perspective and further explorations were made in that direction. The model on the right depicts the linear nature of the site and through picture frames portrays the pedestrian view on the particular locations.
Building Proposal The building follows the shape of the site, creating an open space in front. Reinforcing the idea of taking a ‘journey’ to a focal point, an external staircase was added, leading from ground level to the roof, where, on an observational terrace the view is directed towards the focal point of the setting – the lighthouse. The building itself consists of 2 distinct volumes, where one the roof of one can be reached from ground level. It can be reached also by bicycle, where on an external sheltered ramp one can leave it and enter the building straight to the cafe.
Building Proposal Showing the linear relationship between the building and the pier. Aiming to highlight the sence of directionality.
CIVIC CENTRED
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SIMPLICITY-ECONOMY-HOME Site The brief of this project was to create a small foyer for a group of eight people with troubled past, in which they can work and live. The urban location of the site near St. James’s park seemed appropriate, since the key purpose of the building was to provide opportunities for reintegration within the busy medium of everyday life. Being protected but visible from the outside became a major theme in the building design. Initial considerations were made, in terms of the existing conditions on the site – sun light, street, noise. A key concept became the idea of creating a space, which is not excluded visually but is protected, and provides the opportunity of choosing between privacy and publicity. Other main aims were providing sufficient sunlight into the living quarters and communal area, and also creating a shelter from the noise on the street.
Building Proposal In order to connect to the occupants a representation of daytime activities was explored, namely the footsteps people leave behind. They depict a sense of direction and purpose, which the people using this accommodation lack. Focus was made on the permeability of the footstep marks left on a white sheet – some areas are solid and dark, and others a completely see through. The idea behind the design is incorporating a set of vertical layers, with varying levels of transparency throughout, so that some spaces are completely enclosed, and some are opened to the outside, in such a way that a bystander is capable of seeing through. A need for a ‘different’ space was established, since one purpose of the building is to encourage communication between inhabitants. The communal area was chosen as most appropriate, and will be positioned on the route to the accommodation, so the occupants interact on a daily basis. The space should create an enclosed and sheltered feel in the form of a curve, wraping over, mimicking womblike qualities.
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Showing the relationships between spaces at an accurate scale, minimising distracting elements.
SIMPLICITY ECONOMY HOME
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PLACED-DISPLACED This project’s brief asked for the development of a small terraced house for a young couple. The aim of the design was to achieve a comfortable space to live, where the occupants can accommodate their work and leisure. The initial concept was derived from the site observations. Noise and chaos are common in the area, due to the presence of two pubs and a school in close proximity. The reaction to the existing surroundings was to create a ‘shell’ which would enclose the living activities. It would provide a sense of privacy, and also clearly separate the indoor from the outdoor. The way this is achieved is by having two volumes, as if one offsets from the other. The inner would contain the living activities, and outer would protect it, and hold all the services.
PLACED-DISPLACED
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RETHINKING BYKER BRIDGE
Taking advantage of the existing space within the arches of the Byker bridge by accomodating studios, galleries and/or cafes in southfacing spaces, raised from the ground, thus resisting the overwealming height of the bridge and creating an urban ‘tree house’ within the Ousebourn valley.
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SIMPLICITY ECONOMY HOME BA CHARRETTE 2012
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