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It is up to you how much your site infiltrates your work, but context is of course of utmost importance in both Architecture and Interior Design. We cannot work without it. We are interested in you developing a thorough understanding of a site through your work and in collaboration with your research cluster. We are organising two different study trips for you so you can understand the diversity of space and conditions you might interact with. We think you might be interested in looking at a variety of conditions. London is a world city, has been inhabited from prehistoric times and has been a major urbation for thousands of years. It has, for much of those, depended on the River Thames as a source of commerce and transport. The conditions you will come into contact with have arisen from the ebb and flow of this relationship with the river and its hinterland. On the first visit you will come in contact with the trading parts of the city, the meat market and the fish market. Both spaces are surrounded by spaces of a difference kind of commerce, that of finance and the service industry. There is word these historic spaces of London will be moved even further out of the city to the hinterland, the estuary of the Thames, at Dagenham. The second of your site visits will be to Seasalter and Whitstable, much more close to home, but again, on the Thames, and will give you another version of this locality and environment as a potential source of further study for you. There is lots to sink your teeth into, you might even be a bit spoilt for choice!
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Think carefully about how you might like to document your site, through film, photography, drawing, are there other means of recording you might progress to help you? In what way would you like to work contextually? If you are developing an interest in an alternative site, do discuss this with your tutor. This will be a really good opportunity for you to augment your made work with more 2D representational information through studying the existing fabric of the site, working with scans, archive information, photography, mapping, representations of sound and intangible information. Bear in mind you are producing a site specific, dynamic, human scale experience. The site might inform your work in a different way, through colouration, lighting, materiality, form or movement. But be Feb 10, 2020 03:36 Scale 1:400000 a little adventurous, ask a few questions and see where50you get to. Lucy Jones 0 km
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