FERGAL VOORSANGER-BRILLWORKFROM2021-2022
projects exploring human’s neolithic relationship with architecture
A STUDY OF ÇATALHÖYÜK
At the start of my third year I did a project that researched the Neolithic town of Çatalhöyük. The survey focused on House 10 which due to the town’s burial practices of both bodies and buildings led to a man-made mound being built over the course of 1500 years.
Ground, First and second floor Lino prints which became the basis of the 3d model to the left
ARCHITECTURE IS HISTORY OVER TIME IN A PLACE
The project culminated in the proposal of a ‘history house’ sat on a site south of Çatalhöyük’s two mounds. The visitors to the structure would live amongst the histories of the humans who came before them whilst they look onto the site where humans came from.
THE AVIAN TOWERS ON THE FAVERSHAM SHORE
My building project this year took the form of The Avian Towers on the Faversham shore: a housing scheme of 42 seasonal flats for migrating human and avian clientele who inhabit the project at different times throughout the year. The plan above shows the carving into extruded walls to create space, this idea was translated into my working process for this year in various mediums.
BOUNDARY AND GROUND CONDITIONS
The Avian Towers are three mounds which residents navigate by travelling across the rooftops of the flats below them. Their rammed earth forms are inspired by tower houses in Shibam and Venetian construction as they straddle three different conditions and extend into the sky to meet different height requirements of its clients.
THE TOWERS AMONGST THE REEDS
The building project was sited in Faversham, Kent. The design methodology of the scheme was to have a series of responses to conditions that have to be met based on its avian and human clientele. I also wove physical making methods and prototyping in with CAD and digital production to produce this organic structure whose journey started with a study into early anthropocene architecture.
UNIT 12 SUMMER SHOW WALL 2022
I was responsible for the design and organisation of my studio group’s degree show. The group designed a settlement this year so I was in charge of designing, sourcing, organising payment for and transporting timber to be able to machine it into 22 landscape bases for all 15 students to put their work onto, which I then installed on my own.
The journey the timber took, from raw planks to CNC landscaped bases.
