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Y3/ Portfolio Tom Cooper-Cocks 2012-13
Unit: Reparations This project was based in the Redcliffe area of Bristol. The brief was two-fold: to attempt a repair to the rich but scarred urban grain of Redcliffe. Secondly, to approach a repair/acknowledgment of Bristol’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, which will come in the form of a memorial and museum.
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Site Investigations (Urban Reparations)
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Site Concept
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Scheme
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Master-Plan
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View Sequence
23 Concept (Slavery Reparations) 26 Atmospheres 32 Site Theory 34 Matieriality & Precedents 36 Site Plan 38 Floor Plans 42 Section 46 Technology 48 Lighting 52 Perspectives 56 Time & Memories
Term 1 / Urban Reparations
Site Investigations
Fragments of the slave-trade are still visible today in the built environment of Bristol. These are physical entities which cannot be ignored, and need to be engaged with.
The city should be made up of a collage of fragments from the past, present and future. -Colin Rowe, The Collage City
By acknowledging the development of the site, key historic elements can be engaged with and respected. A dialogue can be opened between the past and the new development.
Street environment of past provides a dynamic and engaging landscape which should be reinterpreted in a modern, mixed-use development.
Historic urban grain (engaging streets, considered vista lines) vs. post-war development (fragments of unused space, road network acting as a barrier to movement, general lack of enclosure, definition and legibility)
Site Concept
Comparison of urban grains and densities. North (historic) vs South (post-war).
Urban stitch conc
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Density insert comparison.
Concept Diagrams
Design for movement through the site between key nodes.
Respect and engage with key historic buildings.
Establish ‘stitches’ across the site, creating continuity.
Manipulation of massing around vista lines.
Creation of an engaging, dynamic street landscape.
Scheme Evolution
Section
Section along the main pedestrian route of the site aiming to show the realtionship between the church and the container.
Master Plan
View Sequence A sequence of views along the main pedestrian route (Temple Meads to Queen square).
While a city is designed in plan it is experienced at street level. How is this street level environment composed... street widths, vista lines etc. I also used Kevin Lynch’s concept of Nodes, Paths, Landmarks, Districts and Edges to structure and provide clarity to the street experience. First life, then spaces, then buildings. -Jan Gehl, Cities for People
Social Stitches
Term 2 / Slavery Museum
Concept
Atmospheres
Noemie Goudal
Darkness Formlessness Ambiguity Introspective Isolation, Disorientation Silence, a deafening void
Light Form Clarity All-seeing Congregational
Can a museum contain no artefacts? No artefacts are able to capture the ineffability of the slave-trade. How ca such a void be manifested?
A museum experience as a synopsis of stimuli. An interweave of work, space and memory. The museum becomes part of the process of remembering. An experiential journey rather than a didactic presentation.
an such a silence,
James Turrel - Roden Crater
Site Theory
Site Plan
Floor Plans
Key Section
Exterior Perspectives
Site Model
Technology
Illuminance Mapping
Light Models
Staircase Renders
Light Sections
Sky Room
Light Gallery
Dark Gallery
Cave Room
Time, Memories and Reparations How should Bristol’s involvement with the slave-trade be remembered? The natural reaction has been to forget, but to forget could be seen as to condone and risk repetition. Memories fixed to objects decay. The museum perhaps does not need to provide objects or artefacts but the museum should become part of the memory and search for meaning. Memories change with time, some are forgotten and some are fixed.
A model exploring ideas of time and permanence. Inspired by Arthur Ganson’s Machine with Concrete, the top gear is rotated by hand, the following cogs gear-down, decreasing the rate of rotation exponentially until the last cog has a rotation time 1/1073741824 of the top gear. The last cog moves so slowly that it can be embedded in the concrete base.
Tom Cooper-Cocks WSA Year 3 2012-13