AN ATHENAEUM FOR THE UNEARTHED SOPHIE PETERSON / PG18 ISAIE BLOCH + RICARDO CARVALHO DE OSTOS
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The clock is about to strike 0600hrs on a quiet Sunday morning.
Helena is woken, as she always is, by the residual sounds of the night.
The world is soothed with sounds of bicycles cruising along below her apartment and the chuckle of friends making their way home. Empty paint cans become rocks to scuff along the ground, their contents now spread across the abandoned walls.
The small and yet endless world of East London simmers below, somewhere between the apartment she
has
grown
old
in,
the
window
pane
which
separates her from it and the Athenaeum which sheds light on it all.
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“ To affirm is not to bear,
carry, or harness oneself to that which exists,
AN ATHENAEUM FOR THE UNEARTHED
but on the contrary
to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives. ― Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, 1962
SOPHIE PETERSON / PG18
Athenaeum; a home for artifacts of time, culture, society, nature and space. Like
”
Alice
from
Lewis
Carroll’s
Alice
in
Wonderland, we are all navigating the forests in our heads, scrambling to find a solid footing beneath our feet, and simply attempting to make sense of the time and space we inhabit. When
we
look
inwards
at
this
forest
of
consciousness, we find a narrative of our reality. D E S I G N
As a mirror of a self-defined reality, the forest allows the space for questioning what we think
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we know. But what if we distorted the image?
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DISTORTION OF ACCEPTED PHYSICAL REALITY
WHAT IF WE DISTORTED THE IMAGE? A spatial language is found through experimentation
ENCAPSULATION OF NATURE
ENCAPSULATION OF TIME
with the museum programme; a
space created for
looking backwards in time. This exploration plays on the metaphorical warping of time and space, specifically within Inner East London.
An architecture which allows a dynamic, non-stop community
to
access
the
stillness,
surprise
and
contemplation of the forest is proposed through the design of a local archival display.
This architecture distorts our expectations of a new development within Inner East London, as well as
ALICE IN WONDERLAND & THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS LEWIS CARROLL
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revealing the embedded narratives of local people
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discarded or lost to time.
and
objects
which
would
otherwise
be
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hidden,
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Pause is given to the gritty, dynamic and resourceful London that we know - a space for pondering, reflection and contemplation of the narratives we live by is offered in return.
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A Space for Time TIME + SPACE
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TIME + FOREST = SPACE TO QUESTION OUR PERCEIVED REALITIES
FOREST + SPACE = METAPHORICAL MIRROR OF REALITY
An Unearthing TIME + FOREST
FOREST
TIME SPACE
SPACE + TIME = THE MUSEUM PROGRAMME
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The Unexpected FOREST + SPACE
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The Athenaeum TIME + FOREST + SPACE
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TIME SPACE
TIME + SPACE = THE MUSEUM PROGRAMME
A Space for Time Distorted Typologies Of The Museum Programme
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THE BLITZ, EAST LONDON Source | Hulton Archive
Context
An Antithesis to the Known
A TA BULA R A S A IN THE EAST Between the 7th October 1940 to 6th June 1941, 1,995 bombs and 53 parachute mines were dropped in the boroughs of Hackney & Tower Hamlets by the German Luftwaffe during the Blitz.
With majority of Inner East London the target of the attack, a tabula rasa or cleared slate appeared for rapid redevelopment. We haven’t slowed down since.
An influx of immigrants and the ensuing pressure cooker of new cultures characterize the area today with a history of destruction, rebuilding, freedom of expression, protesting and rapid gentrification.
Can a place of pause, memory and questioning be offered to Inner East London as an antithesis to the non-stop urban fabric we now know?
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REFERENCE
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Context
An Antithesis to the Known
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WHAT CAN ONE EXPECT FROM A MUSEUM IN INNER EAST LOND ON?
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A specific narrative of the past housed in a historically relevant building.
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MUSEUMS OF INNER EAST LONDON 1
Geffrye Museum, Old Street
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Fuslier Museum, Tower Hill
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Museum of Methodism, Hoxton
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Jack the Ripper Museum, Aldgate
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The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
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V&A Museum of Childhood Museum, Bethnal Green
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Sutton House, Hackney
Ragged School Museum, Mile End
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Museum of London Docklands, Limehouse
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A shopfront on the high street.
Spitalfields Charnel House
Sometimes with an orthogonal addition to the facade.
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R E F E R E N C E : D i g i M a p s + G o o g l e I m14 ages
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Context
A Space for Time
NEW SPITALFIELDS MARKET New Spitalfields Market is a permanent establishment which uses the market typology, attempting to negotiate the City of London edge with the low rise, diverse program of lower Shoreditch. Foot traffic generally travels from this market, up towards Brick Lane and towards Columbia Road Flower Market. This is what I like to call the ‘urban artery of Inner East London.
TRUMAN BREWERY WEEKEND MARKETS Whilst controversial due its contribution to gentrification, Truman’s adds to the culture of pedestrian priority and cultural expression through the selling of international foods, goods and services during weekend markets. The weekly bustle of local residents, vendors and tourists make this area the pressure cooker of culture it has come to be known for.
CULTURE OF STREET ART + GRAFFITI
SHOREDITCH HIGH STREET OVERGROUND
Brick Lane was given its name during the 1600’s as the land was historically excavated for its London clay use to build local homes. Access through the Truman Brewery Markets allows for the feeling of hidden alleyways of discovery and adds to the otherworldly feeling of this area.
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REDCHU
STREET CH HIGH
PROXIMITY TO BRICK LANE
SHOREDIT
Inner East London has a rich history of an outspoken working class people from every corner of the globe. Expression of varying ideologies, particularly from youth culture, surface through street art and graffiti which unlike in many cases - actually adds grit and appeal to the area.
To the north of the site sits a reserve for Shoreditch High Street Overground as well as Central and Victoria underground lines which run below. The site is well connected by London’s trains, subways, buses and cycle paths, making this site easily accessible for those near and far.
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The current neighbors to N the south and west of the site are both gated, reserved land for car parking. There is very limited activity from these buildings as Grey Eagle Street provides little amenity to the public besides being a back road short cut from Brick Lane to Commercial Road for delivery drivers and cyclists alike.
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CHOSEN SITE GREY EAGLE STREET CAR PARK
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Cultural context of Lon Stock brick creation and use
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LONDON CYCLE NETWORK
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Derelict, abandoned site - currently unactivated
Rich culture of street art, graffiti and public expression
Lack of public open space due to commercial priorities
Hidden histories and narratives without a home
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Context
A Space for Time
32m 18m 7m 10m
7m 50m 20m
26m
EAST ELEVATION
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NORTH EAST ELEVATION
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Context
A Response to Site
Years pass and things still never seem the same on second glances.
Every night Helena goes to bed, waiting to peel back the curtains in the morning only to see a slightly different East London on the streets below.
New graffiti artists, photographers, a group of friends filming a dance, a delivery driver taking a moment for some fresh air... Ordinary for Helena is anything unexpected.
The news is on the walls, but its also in the objects left behind and the stories they tell. The people that tell the stories, however, are gone.
These stories below are played out before her; a television, but somehow, only for her eyes.
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P O R T F O L I O
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It’s 8.48am on April 20th 2021. A man pulls out his paper and collapsable chair to bask 20 in the rare London sun.
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TIME + FOREST = SPACE TO QUESTION OUR PERCEIVED REALITIES
FOREST
TIME
An Unearthing Honouring Alternative Truths,
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Realities and Narratives
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To Distort is to Unearth New Realities
R E A L I T Y
Design Language
D I S T O R T E D
TO STRETCH + WARP
TO STRETCH + WARP
R E A L I T Y TO STRETCH SPHERICALLY
TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN
TO STRETCH SPHERICALLY
TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN
TO EXIST IN TWO REALITIES
TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE
R E F L E C T
LIGHT IN
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GLASS
R E F R A C T
D E S I G N
D E S I G N
P O R T F O L I O
P O R T F O L I O
T H R O U G H
T H E
L O O K I N G
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
G L A S S
LIGHT OUT
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Design Language
To Distort is to Unearth New Realities
DISTORTION LANGUAGE APPLIED TO A SPHERE
X2
KNOWN GEOMETRY
TO STRETCH
TO WARP
TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN
TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE
LANGUAGE APPLIED TO THE MUSEUM PROGRAMME
X2
KNOWN MUSEUM TYPOLOGY
TO STRETCH
TO WARP
TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN
TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE
TYPOLOGIES OF THE MUSEUM PROGRAMME AN EXPERIMENT OF THE CLASSIC PALLADIAN, GREEK REVIVAL MUSEUM
NEGATIVE SPACE
A Gestural Experiment It’s obvious that one cannot warp the British Museum and end up with a ‘made to order’ architectural solution.
The gesture of doing so, however, is an idea generating
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ELONGATED GALLERIES
ENTRY THRESHOLD
ORTHOGONAL ATRIUM SPACE
ORTHOGONAL CIRCULATION
GRID ORIENTATED COLUMN SYSTEM
machine. Like Alice in Wonderland, the absurd becomes a mechanism for questioning the expected.
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D I S T O RT E D T Y P O L O G I E S O F T H E M U SE UM P R O G R A M M E
A D I ST O RT E D K I T O F T Y P O L O G I E S F O R G E N E R AT I N G SPAC E
DISTORTED ELONGATED EXHIBITION SPACES
EXHIBITION SPACE
AN EXPANSIVE,
Exhibition Spaces Traditional exhibition spaces are elongated, orthogonal halls in which there may or may not be podiums in between to shape the navigation of the space. What if these places of exhibition were instead expansive, exploratory spaces?
EXPLORATORY SPACE
X2
DISTORTED ENTRY THRESHOLD ENTRY THRESHOLD
X2 AN ENTRY WHICH FUNNELS ITS USER INWARDS
DISTORTED ORTHOGONAL ATRIUM SPACE
NEGATIVE SPACE
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ATRIUM
A PLACE OF STILLNESS WITH ROOM FOR CONTEMPLATION
DISTORTED FLOW OF CIRCULATION CIRCULATION
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CROSS CIRCULATION, PERHAPS LIKE A CHILD’S
Entry Threshold Telling a narrative about the past is one thing. But to deem it as truth, authority and trust is needed. It is expected that a museum has a monolithic entry which demands attention and respect. What if the entry could instead be less insistent and instead draw visitors in with curiosity?
Atriums An atrium receives light from above and generally is a place which orientates a visitor. It is usually seen as a ‘core’. What if this idea of core was duplicated and made to be places of stillness and contemplation? What if these cores where entries to new worlds? Like Alice’s rabbit hole.
Circulation If exhibition spaces and atriums are orthogonal, it is almost a given that circulation will follow with the same quality. A driving factor in the proposed scheme is a circulation system that feels more like a child’s playground, rich with cross-circulation and nooks and crannies.
PLAYGROUND
DISTORTED COLUMN GRID
KNOWN GEOMETRY
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X2
TO STRETCH
TO WARP
TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN
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TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE
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COLUMNS DISPERSED LIKE TREES, SO A USER CAN FORAGE THROUGH
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Column Structure Column structure guides visitors through a space and is one of the most important elements of circulation. Can the formal language of piles for column be pushed past? What if the columns where instead a forest of trees. This brings us to the formal language of the building on the next page.
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FOREST + SPACE = METAPHORICAL MIRROR OF REALITY
FOREST
SPACE
Curating the Unexpected The Metaphorical Forest Meets its Spatial Language
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Formal Language
Unearthing Spatial Forest Teachings
WHAT IF WE USED THE FOREST’S SPATIAL LANGUAGE TO DISTORT OUR ACCEPTED SECTIONAL SPACIAL TYPOLOGIES?
What If? What if we used the forest’s causal
spatial
language
to
distort our accepted sectional typologies? Can the unexpected keep us present and open minded?
CEILING TO WALL
WALL TO FLOOR PLATE
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SEEING THE FOREST AS BUILDING IDENTIFYING THE FLOOR, WALLS AND CEILING
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CIRCULATION
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Formal Language
Unearthing Spatial Forest Teachings
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ORTHOGANAL CEILING + FLOOR TYPOLOGY
ORTHOGANAL CEILING + FLOOR TYPOLOGY MORPHED FOREST SPATIAL LANGUAGE
MERGING BOTH LANGUAGES BACK TOGETHER ADDING ORTHOGONAL CEILING BACK
D E S MERGING BOTH LANGUAGES BACK I ADDINGG ORTHOGONAL FLOOR N
MORPHED FOREST SPATIAL LANGUAGE
TOGETHER BACK
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INTERPRETTING THE RESULT
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Formal Language
Unearthing Spatial Forest Teachings
An Exploratory, Ever-Changing Space Non-reality defies gravity. It defies material properties and interactions and appropriate scale. It questions ‘what if?’ and ‘so what?’. This design exercise prompts important questions of heaviness and lightness, of pace and atmosphere and of materiality. It is a model which is returned to time after time during the design of the Athenaeum.
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The Athenaeum An Architectural Proposal
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Several days pass.
Helena watches the Athenaeum, from midnight, to dawn then to dusk.
Over and over, she sees people being drawn into the building like moths drawn to a flame during the night, or children intrigued by new shapes during the day.
She watches the netted facade of the building breathe
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as people lean against it and its almost viscous-like transparency shift from pendant shade to rough skin as the sun passes over the city. D E S I G N
There is not much Helena has not seen or experienced
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in this place, but something about the Athenaeum is drawing her in. Something new is to be learned there.
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The Athenaeum
Design Language Meets Forest Teachings
EXHIBITION TERRACE
UPPER GALLERIES
The Athenaeum
ATRIUMS
This project proposes an Athenaeum for the untold stories of inner East London. An athenaeum is a home for artifacts of time, culture, society, nature and space. Embedded in these objects are narratives which would otherwise be hidden, discarded or lost to time - are revealed.
CURATION STRATEGY The proposal is built on the foundation of
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listening and learning about the hidden realities of the people we pass every day?
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artifacts and archival objects stored by the Tower Hamlets Council in warehouses which
What can be found if we hold enough space for
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ARCHIVAL LIBRARY
are not currently accessible to the public.
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This exhibition of objects would be woven into the submission of sentimental objects submitted by local peoples.
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The Athenaeum
Design Language Meets Forest Teachings
An Agglomeration Spaces Between
A series of sectional studies ‘tetrising’ different draped sectional arrangements ensued.
The Athenaeum’s driving design language relies on the core atriums which create cores in the center of the building - not for orientation or circulation, but as a place to exist and experience.
The final result found a balance between the experiments of the forest
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This experience is complimented by the notion of layered, draped space.
STUDY:
THE
LONG
The diagrams question how the body interacts with differing sectional typologies and what happens
MUSEUM
when we estrange the body from the architecture, or perhaps enclose the body instead.
How does the body move around
language and of distorting expectations in scale, heaviness and lightness.
P O R T F O L I O
This study looks at the consequences of thinking of space as curtains to create porosity. CASE
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space? Can architecture make us
Creating a space which feels safe, euphoric and marvel is key to the function of the building.
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feel enclosed, estranged or safe?
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Distorted Function Meets Form The initial design language was informed by arrangement of the distorted typologies below and placing them on site in
TERRACE
appropriate relation to sun, site and current
UPPER GALLERY
EXTERNAL GALLERY
cultural contexts. This experiment was a gesture which kick started an iterative process until the final form was unearthed.
EXTERNAL GALLERY
GALLERY
ATRIUM OF SCENT
6m
8m
10m
NEGATIVE SPACE
GALLERY
AN EXPANSIVE, EXPLORATORY SPACE
AN ENTRY WHICH FUNNELS
A PLACE OF STILLNESS
CROSS CIRCULATION,
ITS USER INWARDS
WITH ROOM FOR
PERHAPS LIKE A CHILD’S
CONTEMPLATION
PLAYGROUND
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PLANT ROOM
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ENTRY THRESHOLD
ARCHIVAL LIBRARY
P O R T F O L I O
P O R T F O L I O
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The Athenaeum
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The Creation of Porous, Exploratory, Layered Spaces
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10 CALVIN STREET TRUMAN BREWERY
GREY EAGLE STREET 16 JEROME STREET
ARCHIVAL LIBRARY
LOWER PLANT ROOM
SUBMISSION POD
Her father brought it home from the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
20 JEROME STREET
a week before he passed. The same hands that had worked
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Helena holds close to her a watch on a chain.
OFFICES
20 JEROME STREET
20 JEROME STREET
SUBMISSION DESK
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to make the bell in the Big Ben had also been used to create this.
TRUMAN BREWERY P O SUNDAY MARKETS
P O R T F O L I O
Inside is engraved the words ‘For Helena’. She used to love to wear the watch as a way to share stories of the man who made it. But now, with so few visiting, she
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20 JEROME STREET
wants to give it a new life and allow it to tell its stories to others. Helena peeks around the corner of the submission pod, before
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The Creation of Porous, Exploratory, Layered Spaces
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EXTERNAL GALLERY
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UP FROM B1
ATRIUM OF TOUCH LANDSCAPED AMPHITHEATRE
10 CALVIN STREET
EXTERNAL GALLERY
TRUMAN BREWERY
GALLERY
GREY EAGLE STREET
GALLERY
OUTDOOR CAFE
16 JEROME STREET
EXTERNAL GALLERY
ATRIUM OF SCENT
18 JEROME STREET
INFO DESK
ENTRY
20 JEROME STREET AMENITIES
20 JEROME STREET
GALLERY
ATRIUM OF SOUND
JEROME STREET 20 JEROME STREET
LIFT
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The many cores of the Athenaeum are finally revealed to Helena. Light drips down the walls the same way it lights up her room
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TRUMAN PBREWERY SUNDAY OMARKETS
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during the dawn. Something about this space brings back her childhood, perhaps the stories being told here, or perhaps just being in a space
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20 JEROME STREET
where existing is simply enough. She feels small, and yet somehow so in control. GATED CARPARK UNIT 18 | NEOECOLOGICAL MYTHS
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The Creation of Porous, Exploratory, Layered Spaces
ATRIUM VIEWING DECK
AMPITHEATRE TERRACE
EXTERNAL GALLERY
UPPER GALLERY
UP TO TERRACE
EXTERNAL GALLERY
ATRIUM VIEWING DECK
EXTERNAL GALLERY
LIFT
UPPER GALLERY
The sun starts to melt down the walls as Helena moves towards the skin of the building. It’s a quiet Tuesday afternoon and no one much is around. She watches the sun breathe its final breaths into the
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building, moving its way across the netting.
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The Athenaeum
The Creation of Porous, Exploratory, Layered Spaces
EXTERNAL TERRACE
GALLERY SEATING
AMPHITHEATRE VIEWING DECK
GALLERY
EXTERNAL TERRACE
EXTERNAL SCULPTURAL GARDEN
LIFT MECHANICS SHAFT
Between the walls and light, Helena hears the sound
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of clinking glasses and the soft chatter of people. She moves towards the sound.
LIFT
PLUMBING + ELECTRICS SHAFT
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UPPER PLANT ROOM
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On the exhibition terrace, objects hang from the roofs and are scattered in between the people. Helena thinks
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that, maybe, the people are just as much a part of the exhibition as the objects themselves.
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A N AT H E NA E UM O F T I M E , SPAC E A N D N E O - E C O L O G IC A L S C U L P T U R E Most proposals in the Shoreditch area are merely a blank canvas or backdrop for the freedom of expression present in such a rich cultural context; street artists, performers, cinematographers... The Athenaeum is a part of this performance. Throughout the night, the canvas of the surrounding site - and the site itself - presents an inclusive opportunity for expression. The Athenaeum becomes a beacon of light for ensuing activities. It does not seek to suppress the current ongoings, but rather, shed light on them. During the day, the sun catches the netting and draws visitors in through a distorted sense of solidity. The outer skin moves as the people within the Athenaeum move and lean against its skin. Ultimately, the language of the skin speaks to the initially vague ongoings inside the Athenaeum. Ever changing and dynamic, the skin achieves a sense of pushing in and pushing out to create feelings of intrigue that draw visitors inwards.
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P O R T F O L I O
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T H E DY NA M IC SK I N The
elasticated
netting
of
the
skin
allows for vistors to lay against it.
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D E S I G N
P O R T F O L I O
P O R T F O L I O
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EXTERNAL GALLERY
ATRIUM OF TOUCH
GALLERY
GALLERY
GALLERY
EXTERNAL GALLERY
UP FROM B1
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ATRIUM OF SCENT
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GALLERY
ATRIUM OF SOUND
GALLERY
D E S I G N
D E S I G N
P O R T F O L I O
P O R T F O L I O
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1m
2m
3m
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5m
6m
7m
8m
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10m
The Athenaeum
Atrium of Touch
Reflective Mirrored Louvred System
Upper Pulley System
AT R I UM O F T O U C H The experience of depth, touch and personal D E S I G N
agency is isolated in this sensory atrium.
P O R T F O L I O
deflect it in numerous directions as the sun
Mirrored
louvres
bring
the
light
in
D E S I G N
and
P O R T F O L I O
moves. Pulley
systems
with
exhibited
items
are
accessible to the visitor and are designed to be touched & explored. 0m
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1m
1.5m
2m
2.5m
3
Ground
down
recycled
concrete
mix
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The Athenaeum
Atrium of Sound
Single glazed operable louvers mounted on up-stand. Stainless steel directional flashing guiding overflow into central atrium pool below. Stainless steel anti-debris perforated lid for gutter Mitered stainless steel gutter with overflow. Planted blue roof
Concrete cast in-situ, recycled aggregate from site with reduced cement mix of pulverized field ash
Hidden up-lighting
Sound drum with wiring hidden behind ply carcass (see previous page) 10mm molded plywood seating cove Pine structural timber framing Ply outer, laminate inner cupboard doors with hidden access hatches to electrical and plumbing Stainless steel casing, bolted to underside of concrete, sealed for water resistance
AT R I UM O F S OU N D
Stainless steel flashing bracket 100mm water resistant resi-laminated glass 300mm deep reflection pool
D E S I G N
The atrium of sound is as much about
P O R T F O L I O
On days with little rain and more
D E S I G N
sound as it is about silence.
P O R T F O L I O
silence, the sounds projected from speakers of a past life take precedent. On other days, the elements cascade it and demand aural attention.
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1m
1.5m
2m
2.5m
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AT R I UM O F S C E N T The Athenaeum
Appeal
Atrium of Scent
to
olfactory
senses
pulls
at
strings of memories. We all remember 0m
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0.4m
0.6m
0.8m
the smell of the house we grew up
1m
in or a favourite dish cooked by our caretakers.
Hidden up-lighting Cast insitu recycled concrete (PVA cement substitute, recycled aggregate) ø 50mm PVC pipe
This
Diffused stainless steel nozzle head
atrium
is
an
atrium
which
emphasises the invissible; scent.
50 x 76mm structural pine
Here, smells from the past are honoured
Scent release button
to take vistors back in time to the
Pressure gauge
stories they are attached to.
High pressure mist release pump Scent canister 10mm molded ply seating cove
1:10 Detail of Scent
Diffusion Mechanism
Key Cast In-situ Concrete
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D E S I G N
P O R T F O L I O
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E X H I B I T IO N T E R R AC E The exhibition terrace is a moment of reverie.
D E S I G N
D E S I G N
P O R T F O L I O
P O R T F O L I O
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It’s 3.41pm on a Tuesday afternoon. For weeks Helena has watched the Athenaeum change and squirm with time. But now she is here. Now she has shared her story. Now she is still and, although alone, somehow connected to all the people who tell the stories around her.
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WHY IS A RAVEN LIKE A WRITING DESK? A raven and a writing desk have almost nothing in common. Perhaps the most important element of this riddle is the fact that we questioned it at all. Although often absurd, questions like this allow us to draw new conclusions about current realities where we otherwise wouldn’t have.
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D E S I G N
P O R T F O L I O
P O R T F O L I O
The Athenaeum of the Unearthed hopes to do the same.
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