Time and Tide: springs
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The Sea Inside
Steilneset Memorial - Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois
Entrance View
Steilneset Memorial
‘The Damned, The Possessed and The Beloved’ Installation
During the European witch-hunts of the 17th century, more people were convicted of sorcery and burned at the stake in Eastern Finnmark than anywhere else in Norway. Steilneset Memorial in Vardø was erected to commemorate the 91 victims who were convicted of sorcery and executed there. It is located near the assumed execution site, with a view towards the church as well as the old fortress. The narrative is communicated through art and architecture, realised in a unique collaboration between the artist Louise Bourgeois and the architect Peter Zumthor. THA 1100 Advanced Principles of Design Developing Tectonic Expression
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Another Place, Antony Gormley Another Place consists of 100 cast-iron, life-size figures spread out along three kilometres of the foreshore, stretching almost one kilometre out to sea. Each figure weighs 650 kilos - are made from casts of the artist’s own body standing on the beach, all of them looking out to sea, staring at the horizon in silent expectation. According to Antony Gormley, Another Place harnesses the ebb and flow of the tide to explore man’s relationship with nature. He explains: The seaside is a good place to do this. Here time is tested by tide, architecture by the elements and the prevalence of sky seems to question the earth’s substance. In this work human life is tested against planetary time. This sculpture exposes to light and time the nakedness of a particular and peculiar body. It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships moving materials and manufactured things around the planet.
Antony Gormley - Another Place, Crosby Beach.
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Iron Tree - Ai Weiwei
One tree, another tree, Each standing alone and erect. The wind and air Tell their distance apart. But beneath the cover of earth Their roots reach out And at depths that cannot be seen The roots of the trees intertwine. - Ai Qing, ‘Tree’,1940 Iron Tree, Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
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Site Information Morecambe Bay located in the northwest England, is the largest expanse of intertidal mudflats and sand in the United Kingdom, covering a total area of approximately 300 km2. The bay lies across the counties of Lancashire and Cumbria next to two National Parks Lake District and Yorkshire Dales; it is bordered by coastal towns and villages including Barrow-in-Furness, Ulverston, Cartmel, Arnside, Morecambe, Heysham and Middleton. The rivers Leven, Kent, Keer, Lune and Wyre feed into the bay, thus creating a number of peninsulas within the bay. The layout of the bay, as well as location of nearby settlements can be seen on the sequential images on the right.
Aerial view showing the location of Morecambe Bay.
The Bay is also popular for its considerable energy resources including large oil and gas fields, two power stations, as well as 138 offshore wind turbines. Furthermore, there has been interest in trapping the potential for tidal power in the bay. Another infamous name of the Morecambe Bay is due to the extremely dangerous fast tides and quicksand, which in 2004 lead to a death of 23 cockle pickers from China. When the tide is low, it is possible to cross the bay through the flat sands, however due to ever-changing and hidden channels, this journey is extremely dangerous. In attempt to allow safe passage the Queens guide has been appointed and still leads walks across the bay.
Aerial view of Morecambe Bay highlighting location of Lower Heysham.
Aerial view showing the site location.
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Site Information
A panorama of most of Morecambe Bay looking from East (bottom of photo) to West (top of photo). Red dots indicate the ‘right of way’ from Hest Bank to Kents Bank.
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Site Information Morecambe Bay is the largest area of intertidal sand and mudflats in the UK. The tides occur in the intervals of approximately 6 hours, thus can be very dangerous to inexperienced visitors who venture out into the sea in low tide. The nature of the ground also results in areas of quicksand, making it an even more life threatening.
Bay in high tide. Bay in low tide.
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Cockle Picking
Morecambe Bay is a rich source of cockles, thus making cockle picking a common activity in the area. These can be collected in low tide and in specified safe areas.
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Morecambe Bay Tragedy On the evening of 5 February 2004 at Morecambe Bay in North West England, 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned when they were trapped by sweeping tides while working in the bay. Twentyone bodies were recovered within hours, a woman’s skull was washed up six years on and one man has never been found. All were working illegally, picking cockles for hours on end to send money back to their families. It was their gang-master, however, and a wider web of criminals, that truly profited while paying scant regard to the cockle pickers’ safety on the sands.
A survivor being rescued.
Footage from the search.
Twenty three cockle pickers who died in Morecambe Bay.
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Development Model
Structure in low tide.
Structure in high tide.
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Physical Study Model
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Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsward.
Czara z Babelkami, 2006, New York.
One of America’s most inventive and individual artists, with work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, among others, von Rydingsvard has evolved a distinctive, highly personal sculptural language that has become synonymous with cedar, the wood that lies at the heart of her practice Ursula von Rydingsward, Yorkshire Sculpture Park. THA 1100 Advanced Principles of Design Developing Tectonic Expression
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Ghost 8 - Brian MacKay-Lyons
Timber construction studies.
Ghost Structure
Every Summer, Canadian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons hosts a two week design-build seminar at his own farm along the southern Nova Scotian coast. Students of architecture from the international community convene here, and construct an additional piece of the ghost lab village. A structure’s concept is born from the site’s contextual properties -views, material, proximity, location as well as it’s 400 year history of settlement. Past ghosts were meant to be ephemeral, temporary structures-almost considered to be follies. Eventually the weathering elements would take them out to sea, or pull them back to the earth in a heap of lumber.
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Physical Model - Massing Study
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Physical Model - Tectonic Study
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Structure at Low Tide
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Structural Assembly
These sequential drawings illustrate the assembly of the pod. Starting with simple timber frame, with floor and ceiling joists added. Next image shows pod with insulation inserted between the frame openings, followed by cement board and water proofing membrane seal. Last image shows the pod cladded in cedar wood panels, with openings and with zinc roof finish.
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Structural Assembly
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Plan and Cross Section
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Access View
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The Sea Inside - View from the Shore
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