Mirroring the breakdown of the built form of the House on Ash Tree Lane, explorations are undertaken into the composition of tectonic components. Vernacular elements are exploded, rotated and rearranged. Traditional forms and recognisable parts remain but are put to new uses. Salvaged materials create new buildings.
The house in its simplest form becomes an element itself, to be manipulated and arranged. Through this distortion, arrangements of built form are suggested.
Deconstructing Vernacular Components
Deconstructed Vernacular Model
This model is one part of an investigation into vernacular architecture. Taking the traditional image of a house as a cube with a pitched roof, and distorting it. At this point, industrial traits are already entering into the design such as louvred openings.
Deconstructing the Vernacular of Nottingham
The same process is then applied to the vernacular architecture of Nottingham, elevating and rotating components such as rafters, windows and chimneys.
Deconstructing Obsolete Typologies
To begin developing an architectural language, a petrol station was digitally modelled and put through a process of deconstruction. In spite of the fracturing and exploding of components, certain elements remain recognisable.
Blending Conventional and Improvised Structures
Double exposures of historic buildings in Nottingham and structures of scaffolding, suggesting a composite architecture of existing fabric and improvised additions.
Study of Rational and Improvised Form
These 3 models represent the climax of the deconstructive process. All that remains is an orthogonal base and a series of triangular objects that evolved from pitched roofs. The “windows� survive the deconstruction in the same way that they become emphasised in the drawing set that these models support.