The Prodigy Ark Experiment: TEA FOR TWO(hundred)
STEVEN McCLOY
Y4 Unit 10 CJ Lim & Bernd Felsinger
Sketches made whilst reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
Terunobu Fujimori, Tea House Built-Too-High
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, director Tim Burton
William Heath Robinson, The Folding Garden
Spatial and Urban Speculations Sketches of impossible, improbable and ridiculous scenarios
Graham Bleathman redraws inventions from Wallace and Gromit.
Brigitte Bardot attempted suicide multiple times. “I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn’t want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.”
Panamarenko, improbable flying machine.
Panamarenko, The Aeromodeller - flying machine designed to rescue Brigitte Bardot from her stresses.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, illustrated by Quentin Blake
Spatial and Urban Speculations Sketches of impossible, improbable and ridiculous scenarios
Edward Hicks - Noah’s Ark
The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.” -Genesis 7
Imagine an Ark to Preserve the Creativty, Knowledge and Imagination of the World
recreational vehicles propeller
observatory fuel tank
data archive
time machine if they can fly, we can
kitchen & food store
motor & gearbox
perpetual engine
conundrum generator
cottage
cockpit & control centre
livestock
navigation apparatus
Prodigy Ark Components Assemblage Model
Prodigy Ark Assemblage Model
Prodigy Ark at Docking Station Assemblage Model
Experimental thinking cap
Scream Extractor Machine, Monsters Inc. Pixar Studios
Door porthole storage facility, Monsters Inc. Pixar Studios
Jeremy Bentham Panopticon Prisons
Prodigy Arks constructed ontop of elevated panopticon structures.
Forceful Extraction of Imagination Sited at a military base and used for sinister purposes.
Disney’s Cinderella
Beauty and The Beast uses architectural design to intensify cinematic choreography
Amy Adams plays a cartoon Princess in the real world in Disney’s Enchanted
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, illustrated by John Tenniel
The Snow Queen, illustrated by HJ Ford
Charlize Theron as the Queen in Snow White and the Huntsman.
The White Queen’s Castle in Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland.
The Palace in Disney’s Aladdin.
Disney Land Castle in Florida.
Marie Antoinette’s English inspired rustic gardens and faux village at the Palace of Versailles.
Not so fictional -Marie Antoinette’s real life of luxury interpretted in a 2006 film.
Castles, Queens and Princes and Princesses Study of popular children’s fiction and it’s “Disney Magic”
Sophie placed on the BFG’s dining table.
Sophie helps BFG to capture a dream and decant it into a jar.
BFG at work mixing dreams in his dream library.
Dreams are blown into children’s bedrooms using a trumpet.
Bath-time dream Sequence
Bath-time dream Sequence
HM Queen Elizabeth reads the paper with her morning tea.
Sophie knows the Queen is the only person who can help her with such an important mission - stop the children being eaten.
The Big Friendly Giant emerges out of Buckingham Palace Gardens
Tea and breakfast at the palace.
The Queen thanks Sophie and BFG for saving all the children.
BFG makes an exit over the palace gates.
The Queen Saves the Day In Roald Dahl’s BFG , Sophie is convinced HM The Queen is the only person who can stop the giants from eating the all the children.
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Public access areas of Buckingham Palace During August and September, when the Queen visits Balmoral the palace is opened to the public.
A rare photograph of the small lake in Buckingham Palace Gardens.
A rare photograph of a garden path in Buckingham Palace Gardens.
Mary lets herself into The Secret Garden
Ofelia climbs into a hole in a dead tree in Pan’s Labyrinth
Alice Follows the White Rabbit, and falls down a hole in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
The Secret Garden The gardens at Buckingham Palace are surrounded by a large wall and are a private haven in the city centre. this could be imagined as a secret garden full of wonders of children’s stories.
8,000 invited guests make their way onto Her Majesty’s lawn at Buckingham Palace for a teaparty. Each attendee has been invited because of their special contribution to the community, they recieve a formal and often surprise invite from the Lord Chamberlain in the post. HM The Queen makes an effort to meet as many people as possible, but even if you don’t shake her hand you an still enjoy a Royal cucmber sandwich or cakes and chocolates stamped with a crown motif.
HM The Queen and Prince Albert contemplate a game of croquet
Postman Pat is congratulated for having delivered all of the invites on time.
On 25th June 2006 HM Queen Elizabeth II, hosted a children’s garden party to celebrate her 80th birthday 2000 Children were invited along with 1000 parents & grandparents to the literature themed event
Tea Parties at the Buckingham Palace HM The Queen is awfully fond of a good tea party and holds several massive events each year, as well as constantly hosting afternoon tea for foreign diplomats and people of distinction.
HM The Queen’s 80th Birthday and Children’s Party at Buckingham Palace, 2006 The main attraction of the party was a pantomime-style play called The Queen’s Handbag, written by children’s author and playwright David Wood OBE and directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, which was performed on a stage resembling Buckingham Palace and broadcast live on both BBC1 and the CBBC channel. In the play, the baddies of children’s literature were angry to find out none of them had been invited to the party, so they decided to ruin the party for the goodies too. After multiple failed attempts, one of them manages to steal the Queen’s Handbag. Without its contents, her reading glasses, the Queen won’t be able to deliver her closing speech. Multiple scenes of the play, including a scene starring Harry Potter and his friends, were pre-recorded and played on large video screens. The play ended with a rendition of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” by the entire cast, led by the London company of the musical Mary Poppins. Throughout the programme, the audience was kept up-to-date about the status of the missing handbag with reports from both BBC News and Crimewatch. The use of a fake newsflash caused complaints to be made to the BBC. The cast of more than 50 included: HM Queen Elizabeth II as herself, Sophie Dahl as Sophie from BFG, Johnathan Ross, Harry Hill, Ronnie Corbet, Martin Clunes and the cast of the Harry Potter Films.
“I am delighted to have my handbag back,” “I do like happy endings.” “We have been reminded that this magic of our childhood, the characters, the stories, the imagination of it all is an enduring and essential part of our culture. “ “I hope that this event will encourage you and many other children who have been watching this show on TV to read some of the wonderful books from which the characters come and to discover the pleasure of reading.”
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Dreams up plans for a Noah’s Ark of Imagination A Prodigy Ark at Buckingham Palace
Golden Tickets The invitations for a Royal Tea Party are sent out by the Royal Household, and are reminiscent of Willy Wonka’s Golden Tickets in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Garden of Children’s Imagination Assemblage model composed of toys, sweets, games and cut-out characters from children’s books, as well as some Royal Paraphernalia
Garden of Children’s Imagination Assemblage model and tectonic fragments
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1. Bed carrousel 2. Hanging beds 3. Wake up call 4. Ideas post box 5. Changing Carriages 6. Deck Chairs 7. Jetty 8. Giant Lily pad 9. Floating teacups
Tectonic Characters in the Garden Analysing fragments and remaking fragments using laser cutting. The teacups, deck chairs and beach huts and post boxes are quintessentailly British characters for The Queen’s Garden. The music box plays Imagine by John Lennon.
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Bed Carosel – wake up and make an entry in your dream diary before being lowered to the ground.
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Wake Up Call – music is played to get you up, and a lullaby at night.
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Washing – take a shower in a floating bathing carriage.
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Gathering Space – for morning checks and vitamins
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Pic’n’mix-nic Baskets – create your own meals with fresh ingredients
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Giant Deck Chairs – shade from the sun or shelter from the rain, a great place to relax, read or have lunch.
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Fishing Jeti – before bed time fish for a mug of hot chocolate from a lily pad.
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Dressing Up – put away your pyjamas and you can dress up in any way you can imagine, and you can change whenever
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Summer deck chairs in London’s Royal Parks
Children enjoying deck chairs.
Elderly couple really enjoying deckchairs.
Giancarlo Neri, The Writer, Hampstead Heath, 2005
Stuart Murdoch & Pimms bring the title of World’s Largest Deck Chair back to its rightful home in Great Britain on 22nd March 2012.
Fragment Development Giant deck chairs to provide shading canopies. Oversized furniture evokes a world of giants and exagerrates how small children are, the smallness of children is a common theme in literature as a child lives in a world where everything is much too big and adult sized.
UK Pillarbox collection, Inkpen Museum
Her Majesty reading 80th Birthday Cards from Children
School project to write to the Queen
If the Queen reads your letter they will let you know, even if she doesn’t read it personally the household normally sends a reply.
Royal Mail Letters to The Queen Her Majesty current receives around 300 letters a day from the general public, many are from children. She always reads a large selection either after breakfast or before lunch.
New Thrones to Sit Back, Relax and Daydream The Cyphers from the Throne Room in Buckingham Palace are transposed onto the giant deck chairs, and designed as hydroponic rose gardens. Rose image is of Queen Mary’s Rose Garden in Regents Park.
Gingham Fabric colours and weave pattern.
Tea and cake served on Ginham table cloth.
Picnic basket lined in Gingham fabric
Typical primary school uniform
Picnic blanket
Picnic Pattern The elements of the design involving picnics and eating must include the ever-popular Gingham Pattern, which has associations with tea, picnics and school uniforms.
Gossip UK newspaper gossip speculating and sensationalizing claims from Andrew Marr’s 2011 book - The Diamond Queen : Elizabeth II and Her People
Arlington House re-built by Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington On the remains of an earlier structure, Goring House built by Sir William Blake.
Buckingham House designed 1710 by William Winde Built for John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby The house fell into Royal hands after complications in the leasehold agreement.
The house was originally intended as a private retreat, and was known as The Queen’s House Remodelled into a palace 1826 by John Nash, and later Edward Blore, Marble Arch was designed by Nash built by Blore. Queen Victoria was the first Monarch to take official residence in 1837.
The Marble Arch was moved in 1851 to Hyde Park A popular story says that the arch was moved because it was too narrow for the Queen’s state coach to pass through, but, in fact, the gold state coach passed under it during Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953.
The East Front designed by Edward Blore in 1847 Enclosing the Palace compound, Creating the Quadragle plan.
The East Facade designed by Sir Aston Webb in 1913 Columns and Pediments are added to create a palatial style, The balcony is also emphasised for Royal appearances, such as this in 2011.
Brief History of the Architecture of Buckingham Palace
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Her Majesty’s view of home from her private helicopter : Masterplan 1. Buckingham Palace 2. Palace Gardens 3. Green Park 4. St James’ Park 5. The Royal Mew’s 6. Queen’s Gallery 7. Tea for Two(hundred); Children’s accomodation, dining and bathing. 8. Phase 2: Prodigy Ark
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Masterplan Key 1. Buckingham Palace 2. Palace Gardens 3. Green Park 4. St James’ Park 5. The Royal Mew’s 6. Queen’s Gallery 7. Tea for Two(hundred) 8. Phase 2: Prodigy Ark
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Exploded Axonometric Full Scheme The following drawings refer to a series of exploded axonometric diagrams in order to organise the various models and drawings. The building has been broken down into three major chapters: A - The Base: Basement, Pool and Landscaping B - The Table: Beds, Dining Room, Kitchen and Roof Terrace C - The Chairs: Solar Collectors and Gardens
Construction Setting-out Radial
Construction Setting-out GPS Co-ordinates
Leandro Elrich’s, Swimming Pool
Pools With Transparent Bottoms and Sides The transparent pool will create an amazing ceiling for the large bathroom
Reference Images - Mark West Fabric Formed Concrete Bottom: Mark West from University of Manitoba experiments with beautifully optimised structures in fabric formed concrete www.umanitoba.ca
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Transparent Pool Floor - 3D Study Model with “slumping” principle to acheive a structural efficiency using gravity.
Prada Store, Tokyo, Herzog and De Meuron
Vakko Museum, Rex Architects, and process of making cross bracing from facade panels
Slumped Glass Glass Slumping process whereby a panel of glass is heated to near melting point over a mould or void the glass finds a naturally optimised curvature due to gravity
Structural Principles Model Identifying a structural logic with a grid and ring beams: primary and secondary structural elements Laser cut model suggests techniques for full scale fabrication.
Table - Structural Frame Laser-cut card model 1:50
The Royal Couple see Themselves as Custodians of British Tradition, Culture & Craft. All the elements are designed in a quintessentially British style, using consultants and craftsmen that hold a Royal Warrant.
A Abels Moving Services - removals and storage services Andrew Wilson & Sons Ltd. - Catering Equipment Hirer Air Partner Ltd. - Aircraft Charter Alden & Blackwell — books A & F Pears Ltd — transparent soap Aquascutum — clothing A Nash — brooms Angostura Limited — bitters Akzo Nobel — paints Alexandra PLC — Corporate Uniforms and workwear Alexandre of England 1988 Ltd - Tailors Aston Martin — motor cars Atco — lawnmowers Asprey — jeweler, goldsmith, and silversmith Austin Reed — clothing Autoglym — car care products Autoscan Limited - Automated Storage A. Fulton Company Ltd. - umbrellas B J. Barbour & Sons Ltd — outdoor waterproof wear Bacardi-Martini Ltd — Martini Vermouth Baxters — specialty Scottish foods Bendicks — chocolates Benson & Clegg — Buttons and Badges Benson & Hedges — cigarettes (withdrawn 1999) Bentley Motors Ltd — motor cars Berry Brothers and Rudd — Wine and Spirits merchants Bluebird Buses Ltd — buses and coaches Bollinger S.A. — Champagne Boots the Chemist — chemists/pharmacists Bowden Hostas — Hostas British Gas Services — gas lamp lighting and maintenance Britvic Soft Drinks — fruit juice H. Bronnley & Co. — Toiletries[2] BT Group — Communications, Broadband and Networked Services Buck Consultants — pension consultants Burberry — clothing Bulmers — cider C Calders and Grandidge — preserved timber fencing Capital Refrigeration Services Ltd — Refrigeration @ Air Conditioning Carphone Warehouse — mobile telephones Carr’s — crackers Carlsberg UK Limited — Ale and Lager Cash’s nametags - Nametags Cadbury — chocolates/confectionery Canadian Club — Canadian whisky (withdrawn) Castrol — motor lubricants Charbonnel et Walker — chocolate Charles Frodsham and Co — clocks and watches Charles Rickards Tours Ltd - transport services Chiltern Valley - Winery and Brewery Chorleys Menswear - Tailoring and Uniforms Clarins (UK) Ltd — Skin Care and Cosmetics Coca-Cola International Sales Limited - Soft Drinks Cobb of Knightsbridge — meat Colmans of Norwich — mustard Cooper’s of Oxford — Marmalade and jams. Cope & Timmins — brass Corgi Hosiery - Socks Cornelia James Ltd - Gloves Corney & Barrow — wine Coventry Scaffolding - Scaffolding Contractors Crabtree & Evelyn — shaving soaps and creams, hand soaps, deodorants D D. R. Harris — chemists D Bumsted & Co, Royal British Table Salt — table salt Dacrylate Paints Limited — paint and decorative acrylics DAKS Limited - outfitters Darvilles of Windsor — Teas Datacraft Design Limited- Space Management Software DHL — courier services and logistics Donald Russell Ltd — Gourmet Meat Suppliers DODSON & HORRELL LTD - Horse and Dog Food Manufacturers DOC Cleaning Limited - Cleaning Services E Ede and Ravenscroft — tailors and robemakers Elizabeth Arden Ltd - Cosmetics English Cut - Tailors Ettinger - Fine Leather goods F Fairfax Meadow Farm — sausages Farlows of Pall Mall - Country clothing and shooting accessories Farina gegenüber — eau de cologne 1837 Floris London — fragrances Flying Colours Flagmakers LTD - Flags Fisher Productions - (Event Lighting and Production Services) Ford Motor Company — motor vehicles Fortnum and Mason — groceries Frank Smythson — stationery G Gallyon & Sons — guns Garrard & Co — jewellery and silverware G&B Electrical - electrical contractors (Sandringham Estate)[3] GH Mumm et Cie - Champagne Gieves & Hawkes — tailors GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare — Toothpaste Alexander Gordon & Co. — gin and vodka H Hamilton & Inches Ltd — Clocks Hamleys -- toys and sports equipment Hatchards — books Hare & Humphreys — decorating and gilding Harvey Nichols — drapers Haythornthwaite & Sons Ltd - Manufacturers of Grenfell Garments Henry Newbery — furnishing trimmings Henry Poole & Co - Livery Tailors[4] Heinz - Food CH Haygarth & Sons - gun & rifle Makers Hayter — grass cutting equipment Hazlitt Gooden & Fox — arts & crafts Heywood Hill Ltd - Bookstore Hobs Reprographics plc Holland & Holland — sporting firearms Holt Renfrew — furrier; now Canadian upmarket department store House of Fraser Howgate Dairy Foods — cheese HP Foods — HP Sauces Hunter Boots - Wellies Hypnos - Upholstery and Bedding Hoval - Heating Boilers I Ian Macleod Distillers Ltd - Glengoyne Whiskies IBM United Kingdom Ltd — Information Systems Inverawe Smokehouses - Smoked Salmon [5] J J.Floris Ltd — Perfumes J & M Sewing Service Ltd — manufacturers of clerical robes Jaguar Cars Ltd — Jaguar and Daimler motor cars James Baxter & Son — shrimps James Cocker & Sons — roses James Purdey and Sons - Maker of firearms Jenners — furnishing materials Jeyes Group - manufacturers of hygiene products John Broadwood and Sons — pianos
Basset’s - Cadbury’s
John Lewis, Oxford Street, London - Haberdashery and household goods John Lewis Reading, Reading - Household and fancy goods John Lobb — bootmaker Johnson Brothers — casual tableware John Walker & Sons — Scotch whisky Joel & Son - Fabrics Judges Choice Petfood Ltd - Petfood K Kent & Sons — hairbrushes Kinloch Anderson — Kilts and Highland Dress Kelloggs — cereal products Kimberly-Clark — toiletries L LEOENGEL - handmade fine jewelry Land Rover — cars Laphroaig — single malt Scotch whisky Laurent-Perrier — champagne Lea & Perrins — Worcestershire sauce (its creator) Linn Products — entertainment (hi-fi) systems Lock & Co. — hatters Loake Shoemakers — Shoes Louis Roederer — champagne Lyle’s Golden Syrup - Treacle M Maggs Bros Ltd — Antiquarian Books Mappin & Webb — Silversmiths Mansour — antique carpets Malvern — bottled water Martini & Rossi — Martini Vermouth McFarlane Telfer Ltd - Catering Equipment Engineers McIlhenny Co — Tabasco Sauce McVitie’s - biscuits Mitre Hall and Letts — Furnishing fabrics and bedding Moss & Co — Timber Importers and Merchants Musto Ltd - Manufacturer of outdoor clothing for country sports and sailing N Nairobi Coffee & Tea Co Ltd — Coffee NCR Ltd — Computer Equipment and Services National Foaling Bank — Foster mares for orphan foals P Partridges — groceries Paxton and Whitfield - cheesemongers Penhaligon — perfumes & shaving products Peter Reed - Luxury Linens Pinneys of Scotland — Smoked salmon — Part of The Seafood Company LTD (Foodvest) Peter Jones— Draper and furnisher Petersfield Book Shop — picture frames Plowden & Smith — restoration services Pots and Pithoi — terracotta pots Price’s Patent Candles Ltd — candles Pringle of Scotland — clothing Prestat — fine chocolates Protectall Ltd. - protective workwear, bespoke embroidery & printing ProTen Services Ltd. — damp proofing & timber treatment Premier Foods Group Ltd. — Cakes and culinary products Pol Roger - Champagne R R E Tricker — shoes R G Hardie & Company — bagpipes Rigby & Peller — Corsetieres Roberts Radio Royal Brierley Crystal — 24% Lead Crystal Ritz Hotel [Catering Services] Robinsons - [Fruit Squashes] S Sandeman — sherry Sandicliffe Motor Garage Ltd — motor horse boxes and automobile engineers Schweppes Holdings Limited — Schweppes & Rose’s soft drinks Sharwood’s — chutney, oriental spices and Indian curry powder Sheen Botanical Labels Limited — engraved plant and tree labelling Shell UK - Purveyor of Motor Spirit Visit Shell Shepherd Neame — cherry brandy Shield Pest Control UK Limited — pest control services Shipton Mill — exceptional millers of quality flour Smythson — leather goods and stationery Spink — auctioneers Spode — china Stanley Gibbons — stamps Steinway & Sons — pianos[6] Sterling Corporate Communications Staples Beds — manufacturers of bedsteads and bedding Stoneham Plc — kitchen and fine furniture manufacturers Straights Direct Limited — animal feeds Strongbow Cider — cider Strong Vend — Bean to Cup coffee machines and other vending machines Suttons Seeds — bulbs and seeds Swaine Adeney Brigg — equestrian and leather goods Stromsholm - Supplies of the finest horseshoes and farriery equiptment T Tate & Lyle — treacle Taylors of Harrogate - tea and coffee merchants Tanqueray — gin Thomas Hine & Co. — suppliers of cognac TIS Software Ltd — computer software Tom Smith Group — Christmas crackers Toye, Kenning & Spencer — Gold and silver lace, insignia & embroidery Truefitt & Hill — barber Twinings — tea and coffee merchants Twyford Bathrooms — Sanitaryware Turnbull & Asser — clothing U Unilever - Consumer packaged goods multi-national corporation V The British Van Heusen Co Ltd — Shirts Veuve Clicquot — Champagne Valvona & Crolla Ltd - Purveyors of Fine Cheese W W J Daniel & Co. — Supplier of Gifts Waitrose, Bracknell — Grocer and wine and spirit merchants Walkers - Shortbread and Oatcakes Wartski — Jewellers Weetabix Limited — Breakfast cereals Wenham Lake Ice Company -- Ice Wilkin & Sons — Jams and fine preserves William Crawford & Sons — biscuits William Sanderson & Son — Vat 69 Scotch whisky Windsor Glass Company LTD — Glass Windsorian Coaches — Coach hire Wensum Company Limited — Livery Tailors Wolsey — clothing manufacturers Worcestershire Medal Service Ltd — Medallists Worcester Bosch Group — t/a Bosch Thermotechnology — domestic appliances X Xerox Limited — Xerographic Copying Equipment, i.e., photocopiers Y Yardley of London — toiletries and personal products
Moss & Co Timber Merchant
DHL Logistics
Royal Doulton
Twinnings Tea
System for nominating sub-contractors and consultants The well known Royal Warrant system is a good way to judge the quality of product required for HM The Queen. There is some, although limited, potential to use companies from the list of Royal Warrant holders in the design, construction and delivery of the building.
Giant Cakes Confectionary from Buckingham Palace Cafe interpretted as architectural elements.
Element Analysis
Cutting List
Structural Frame The modelling process and principles involved suggest techniques for full scale fabrication..
Teapot and Cups - Design and Structural Development Identifying a structural and fabrication logic. Considering the notion of Tea-Stained Glass.
Teapot and Cups - Design Detail Interpreting the liquorice allsorts, teapot and cups as architectural elements.
Deck Chair - Design Potential Design opportunities of the stripes on a deck chair.
Giant Deck Chair - Study Visit to Bournemouth Stuart Murdoch’s Deck Chair for Pimms, installed on Bournemouth Beach 22-25th of March 2012. The sculpture was serendipitously timed to coincide with this project, it offered a great opportunity to understand the spatial qualities of the object as well as being a precedent for construction details and assembly process. The 8.5 metre chair is a box steel frame with a canvas seat, and the prefabricated elements join simply on site using heavy bolts.
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The weight of the chair is held by the crane while workers use a winch to raise the lower support bar.
18:45 The chair is lowered gently to the ground, the crane is detached while the structure is inspected.
19:30 The fabric element is removed and the steel structure dismantled and loaded piece by piece into a 15metre truck.
Table Legs and the Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty - Frederic Bartholdi & Gustave Eiffel, 1886. A simple structural frame supports sculptural copper cladding panels. Structural steel frames of the table legs are clad with a timber skin.
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Orientation and Solar Analysis Analysis of day-time hours - 09:00-18:00 of 21st of June,1st of August & 21st of December in London. During June and August the revised angle allows the deck chairs to have more solar exposure, also shading of the surrounding landscape is more evenly spread.
Solar heated BAD BATH, SMAQ Architects
Low-Tech Swimming Pool Heater using pipes and a pump.
Water System, Climate and Precipitation Each Deck Chair heats water in separate systems. Philip’s Chair is an open-loop system that heats the pool water and charges the thermal mass store, it also includes water treatment and filtering, utilising rainwater collection (year-round) with mains for topping up. Elizabeth’s Chair is a linear system that heats bath water, it includes grey water recycling for lavatories and irragating the verticle strip and hydroponic rose gardens. (Soaps and detergents are controlled so as not to damage the plants)
Hose pipes left out in the sun - Environmental Systems Overview Using water to capture and store energy from the sun, the heat is then transferred into a thermal mass heat store to be used at night, warm water is then fed into the pool. The system is open looped, but water is filtered and treated regularly. A separate system heats water for the baths, and greywater is recycled.
changing facilities shaded outdoor performance space
beds
performance space
Ecotect Analysis Data visualisation of thermal gains from solar radiation, under the deck chairs there is a cool microclimate without strong direct sunlight. These provide spaces for performance, picnics, changing and beds. It is important to keep the bedroom environment cool as the inhabitants will be taking afternoon nap-times, and would be uncomfortable in stuffy or humid space.
Special Environmental Conditions
Using Bathtub Steam to Create Special Atmosphere Top: Bathroom in section underneath transparent pool floor, clouds form when hot steam rising from the bath tubs mixes with conditioned cool air in the room. Middle and Bottom: Transsolar + Tetsuo Kondo create Cloudscapes at Venice Biennale 2010 - www.tetsuokondo.jp
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Warm Breeze
Cool Breeze
Cold Wind
When the curtain comes down On a warm night the beds are free to hang in a pleasant breeze to reduce stuffiness and reduce the risk of poor sleep. A heat insulating curtain is deployed during cooler parts of the night , to create an enclosed thermal zone. The bunk beds can also be hoisted up underneath the thermal mass store, which will be radiating heat throughout the night.
The Craftsmen’s Big Day! Trucks are loaded with all the bespoke elements of the new building, pre-fabricated in various workshops from around Great Britain. A special event should be organised so that these works of master craftsmanship can be celebrated when they are delivered, including a Royal Procession along The Mall.
Traditional Willow Pattern Plate - Originally designed by Thomas Minton The plate displays a British interpretation of an oriental narrative.
Commemorative Plate for Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee
Encyclopedias have been made on the classic British design
School children learn about narrative in art by making willow plates
Children’s interpretation of the willow story
Blue Willow Pattern Blue and white is perhaps the most British of all porcelian The willow pattern weaves a narrative within the blue and white world.