The Tyr-Ant Watchmaker’s Grand Production
A Watchmaking factory/ workshop, museum and shop located in Clerkenwell controlled by a ruthless tyr-ant, the Queen ant watchmaker who takes credit for the making of the watches in her factory. The building explores watchmaking as a performance while simultaneously serving as a monument for Clerkenwell’s hidden history of watchmaking.
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Site Analysis: The Site itself
1144, The limestone Norman abbey for Augustinian nuns of St Mary was founded by Jorden de Briset. Situated on 14 acres of land near to the Clerk’s well.
Influx of Huguenots to the capital, bringing their craftmanship
1788-92, James Carr rebuilt St James parish church. It was built on the old site which made the area the parish hub. This encouraged the development of more properties. His designs were in a classical style which was inspired by James Gibbs and Sir Christopher Wren. No 47 and 48 are the only two surviving houses out of the 40 designed by Carr. Most of the mansions on the former nunnery close were subdivided into homes and workshops mainly for craftsmen
Clerkenwell remained occupied by craftsmen and artisans, jewellery, watch and clock making led to printing and light engineering,
1960s, many of the houses and workshops on the road were dilapitated
1970s, only the layout of the road and a couple of limestones remained in rememberance of the nunnery due to a fire. 2017, 15
Close controversial limestone building fully constructed.
1870s, on the west side which originally had slum courts were replaced with model housing and commercial buildings and warehouses.
The Normans brought with them the use of Limestone fresh from the quarry as it remained soft to allow for fine carving and then calcifies to make stronger fortifications specially for cathedrals and important secular buildings.
Early 16th century, major rennovations took place and by the time of King Henry VIII dissolution, it became one of the richest monastries in England.
06. Site Analysis: 15 Clerkenwell Close
The Limestone facade is an emblem of the St James and the 11th century limestone Norman Abbey, St James’ church. The use of limestone was brought to Clerkenwell during the Norman conquest in the 11th century, the church references the Norman limestone building methods. The sedimentary limestone has a diverse range of textures, with natural faults severed into it, smooth surfaces due to masons, a reminder that it is a hand-finished craft. Quirks, fossilised corals, quartz pockets and seams and ammonite shells pockmark its surface- an allusion to the millions of years the stone has formed over on a prehistoric seabed. The exposure of the sedimentary layer was purposefully done to reveal its natural beauty. The front of the building has an ionic collumn, further suggestive of its historical context. This hand-crafted element is what would like to incorporate in the design of the watch factory building as well as the use of limestone as it encompasses life and history in its fossils and textures.
Eroded limestone resembles ant architecture, erosion is a symbol of time passing
Ants mixing minerals to produce limestone
Ant heads proportions adapted to suit their function in the colony from carrying loads such as larvae and the larger ants to combat enemies.
Ant functions in the colony
09. Ant assembly line
1970s, biologist E O Wilson used metaphors from human society to describe a colony as a ‘factory within a fortress’. Each ant is programmed to complete its appointed task- ant colonies consist of one or more reproductive females, called ‘queens’, who lay eggs. The rest of the ants are ‘workers’. Left image: Henry Ford Assembly line, industrialised the idea of division of labour. The study into the watch components compares the ant colony to each of the components. The building will be shaped around the head watchmaker, who is considered the ‘Queen ant’ for her to watch and supervise over the general public and the watchmakers.
Key of the building redesigned to resemble the ‘door head ant’ they use thier heads to block the entryway of the ant nest.
Hierarchy
11. Ant political system
Ant colonies typically operate under hive minds. In an ant colony, there are three different classes: workers, drones, and the queen. We have placed a monarchical system on the world of ants, this is depicted through various films. Monarchy is a political system in which supreme authority is vested in the monarch, an individual ruler who functions as head of state.
Ant monarchy portrayed in flim
12. Symbol of status and wealth
Watches have often served as symbols of status and wealth. Black ants are considered lucky as if you find black ants specifically roaming in your house it is a symbol of a soon sharp rise in ones wealth.
13. Establishing a colour scheme
Ants have three photoreceptors, they can perceive colours UV, blue and green and studys show that ants are often attracted to the colour red. These colours will remain prominent in the building renders.
14. Character: The Queen Watchmaker
A ruthless tyrant who takes credit for handcrafting all the watches in her factory. Queen ant eyes are blue and green as studies have shown that ants are sensitive to blue and green light.
15. The Programme
What?
– A Watch factory/ Workshop to bring light to Clerkenwell’s hidden history of clock/watchmaking - Museum -Shop
– Focussing on manipulating space to accentuate the ‘Queen’ Watchmaker as the programme is centred around her
- Brings light to the abuse of power in society, society is built for the rich and powerful
- Secretive and exclusive building
- Provides enough working room for 15 watchmakers
- As the building is made for the making of a timepiece the concept of time will aid in the design of the spaces
- The building is designed around ant symbolism as the ant colony can be likened to a factory and as they are miniscule creatures the concept of scale will be manipulated Where?
– Clerkenwell Road, London
– Sandwhiched inbetween two commercial buildings – lack of watch factories as many of them were demolished Who?
– For select few members of society, for the wealthy and elite to gather and converse over social and political ideas.
Key:
1. Battery.
2. Electric stepping motor.
3. Microchip.
4. Circuit connects microchip to other components.
5. Quartz crystal oscillator.
6. Crown screw for setting time.
7. Gears turn hour, minute, and second hands at different speeds.
8. Tiny central shaft holds hands in place.
16. The Quartz Crystal
First developed in the late 1970s, quartz watches are a relatively new phenomena in the centuries-old craft of watchmaking. A quartz watch is battery powered. The watch uses a low-frequency, tiny piece of quartz crystal (silicon-dioxide) placed either like an integrated circuit and chemically etched into shape, or shaped like a tuning fork. That quartz crystal serves as the oscillator. The battery sends electricity to the quartz crystal through an electronic circuit. The quartz oscillator vibrates quickly and with precise frequency (32,768 times/second) in response to the electronic charge. The circuit counts the vibrations and generates regular electric pulses of one per second. The pulses drive the small motor that spins the watch’s hands – offering accurate time measurement There have been occasions in which harvester Ants use the light-transmitting properties of quartz to trap heat, which is then absorbed in the mounds, in order to warm their habitats. More explicitly, because quartz is transparent to visible and ultraviolet light from the sun, the sunlight is absorbed, heating the mound. Harvester ants, it seems, were the first organisms to come up with the idea of a solar panel. The layer of quartz on the anthill then acts as insulation, preventing heat from escaping. Since ants are most active in warm temperatures, such heat retention inside the mound could increase the time available for ant activity.
Quartz clock
Render of the Queen’s sceptre made of the quartz crystal, symbolising her authority to denote roles
Render of Ant holding up column as the ant is a symbol of strength as they can carry between 10 and 50 times their own body weight, some species can carry up to 100 times their own mass.
Ants in the Bible ants mentioned in the Bible as a symbol of collaboration, assiduity, and devotion. There are many references to ants in the Bible, and these insects are emblems for teamwork and community.
17. Ant symbolism and uses- Hopi ant People
Key characteristics associated with the ant include unity, strength, stamina, wealth, duty, honor, preparation, organization, diligence, focus, and hard work. The ant is personified in a legend from the Hopi tribe, a nation located in northerneastern Arizona. the Hopi legend involves ant people who were vital in the Hopi tribes survival. These people were described as ‘industrious’, and hopi tribe art depicts the ant people with elongated heads, almondshaped eyes, spindly arms and legs which resemble the ants anatomy. The two important symbols to take forward in the project is the concept of ants being industrious, symbols of gain of wealth and strength. The idea of personifying the ant and morphing human and ant qualities is a concept that will be incorporated.
Hopi Ant People cave art Ants personified
19. Power, control and surveillance
Spaces throughout the building will have oranments inspired by the queen ant character. Her eyes will be interweaved into the architecture evoking this feeling of being watched and supervised by the ‘Queen’ Watchmaker.
20. Clerkenwell Clock Factories
Early in the reign of Charles I, the City of London was the centre of British Clock and watchmaking. Clerkenwell became the headquarters of the trade, and maintained its supremacy as long as verge watches continued in use. Clerkenwell road in particular was abundant in clock factories, however this history of watch making remains concealed. A typical example of a Clerkenwell clock is the turret clock.
‘At each questioning of the material or his work to improve it constantly, he responds by creating a tool to overcome the new constraints imposed by his creative genius.’
Space and time are inextricably linked. The stairs in the building could grow and shrink warping one’s sense of time to demonstrate this. In fact ants perception of time is slower than ours, this is due to the fact that time perception is directly related to size. The concept of scale will be played with as a result.
26. High Precision Watches
Watchmaking is a craft that requires high precision as the watch and clock is an aggregation of micro-mechanical components. The study of ants can be related to micromechanics, as each component in the watch has a precise function likewise each ant in the colony has a specific function to keep the whole ant colony mechanism operating. The watchmaker wears a lens to ensure precision when working with the watch parts, inspired by this I created an ant microcosm In this round glass piece, as I would like the building to expose what is otherwise miniscule so that the building users can experience the mechanical and micro performances of watchmaking and the lives of ants simultaneously.
Ants breaking down organic matter- as their role as decomposers
The World of Ants: Exposing the ant microcosm under the watchmaker’s lens
The Watchmaker is a micro-mechanic, working with mechanical gears the size of ants
Ant Microcosm
27. Watchmaker’s bench
With surfaces that swivel and interlock with one another, reminiscent of the way ants move together and interlock to create structures.
28. Modelling The Watchmaker’s Bench
With surfaces that swivel and interlock with one another, reminiscent of the way ants move together and interlock to create structures.
32. Jewellery workshop and shop layout
Alex Monroe’s jewellery studio example 1 plans are reminiscent of that of an ant nest as each floor (chamber) is dedicated for a specific function in order. Furthermore, chosen for the significance of its historical and spatial layout, Alex Monroe’s jewellery studio example 2 is located near The Shard in the Bermondsey Conservation Area. The building is a handcrafted supplement to an existing Edwardian single storey shop-front. The building provides workshop and studio space, alongside a boutique store and a meeting space. The watch factory design will include these spaces. Activities on each floor are connected by a spacious “social” staircase that offers itself as a space for exhibition and chanced encounter. .
Meeting rooms
Workshop
Studio Shop
Toilets
Alex Monroe’s jewellery studio example 1
Alex Monroe’s jewellery studio example 2
Berani Jewellery by PrototypeDesignLab
33. Renaissance theatre social hierarchy
Lower Class: Paid a penny to stand around the stage - The ‘Groundlings’
Merchant/Middle Class: Sat in galleries
Nobles: Nobility have more choice of seating, can even sit on the stage. Theatres were often used to converse social and political affairs
Hierarchy in the ant colony
34. Watchmaker’s Eyepiece
Drawing parrallels between the watchmaker’s eyepiece and Opera glasses that traditionally used in performance events such as theatre production. They will be handed out to the guests to have a closer look at the micromechanic’s watchmaking performances as they are working with miniscule watch components.
Ground Floor Iteration 1
1. Ticket booth for museum and shop 2. Display cases
Inside some of the display cases are rotating watch platforms inspired by the clock watch mechanism 3. Entrance
Shaped like the head of an ant 4. Reception 5. Staff room 6. Shop
The grand shop is designed in accordance to a renaissance theatre’s social hierarchy. The shop (the theatre) is open to the pubilc which are the ‘groundlings’ but the stage itself is where the nobility has access to (the ‘Queen’ watchmaker)
7. Queen watchmaker’s throne and stage 8. Service lift for watches 9. Stairs acting as a viewing platform
Stairs platforms providing direct views onto the stage 10. Seating area
For customers who require a consultation to purchase a watch 11. Clock and watch museum
Open to the public 12. Museum display and storage 13. Toilets 14. Cafe and bar Open to the public 15. Public lift servicing all floors 16. Stairs leading straight to the 2nd floor 17. Cycle storage 18. Stairs servicing all floors 19. Exit
Utilising ant’s nature to collaborate and create architectural forms out of their bodies to develop the building’s form.
Ticket booth for museum and shop
Ramp leading to entrance
Watch and clock display case
Museum of time measurement(ground floor)
Hallway leading to cafe
Watchmaker’s microcosm chamber
‘Queen’ Watchmaker’s stage
Storage space for watchmaker
Doors leading to stairs to 1st floor
Cafe and tea shop (ground floor)
Museum of time measurement (first floor)
Mezzannine (theatre box)
Cafe and tea shop (first floor)
40. Process Render: Initial Model of building on site
41. Process Render: Entrance into the building
42. Process Render: Emphasising The Queen’s Private Balcony
Queen’s balcony designed so that she can supervise the workers on the balcony below
44. Clerken Well Waterclock
Water plays a very significant role in the history of Clerkenwell, it once has a well located in the boundary wall of St Mary’s Nunnery, it is what gave Clerkenwell its name. The theatres located in this region utilised water from the New River in the performances, tanks were placed under the stage and were filled with water for ‘aqua drama’ performances based on historic naval battles that involved real boats and platforms that float. In response is a render of a waterclock, an important timepiece produced by the ancient Greeks, the water will be collected in what resembles the Clerk’s Well. The waterclocks will be places in the main space which forms the theatre.
45. Cuckoo clock
Cuckoo clocks serve as a marker of time and they are a heirloom to pass from generation to generation. Cuckoo clocks take the form of buildings at a really small scale which is why the ant microcosm photographs helped to develop the cuckoo clock’s aesthetic as it is another play on scale.
Render of doorway leading too the cafe. The steps lead up into the cuckoo clock.
46. London’s most exclusive private members’ clubs
Exploration into some of the most exclusive locations in London. There is this running aesthetic and colour pallette. Red, gold and green appear to be a running theme. The spaces have chiasocuro-like lighting the contrast between light and dark is suggestive of hiding and the idea that these spaces are underground and hidden away from the rest of society. They exude this feeling of oppulence where only the wealthy and select members of society can go.
The Court, Soho
Home Grown, Marylebone
Ten Trinity Square, the City of London
47. Chiaroscuro lighting in theatre
Exploration into Chiaroscuro stage lighting, the effect creates bold sections of light and shadow, generating delineated shadows effectively creating an abundance of contrast. The mood it evokes allows for compositions that are mysterious and dramatic. As the building is for a select few members of society, the feeling of exclusivity and mystery is involved. The ‘Queen’ Watchmaker herself is a mysterious figure.
Joseph Wright of Derby- An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768)
48. The ‘Queen’ Watchmaker’s throne
A throne is the upmost symbol of power and control. It represents and highlights the power the dignitary who sits in it possesses.
49. Process Render: The ‘Queen’ Watchmaker’s throne
Incorporating Chiaroscuro lighting. The lighting draws ones attention onto the throne in which the ‘Queen’ Watchmaker will sit, suggesting that she is the one that creates the watches in the factory when in reality it is not the case.
Ant colony nest interweaved into the design of the Queen’s throne
Carravaggio la vocazione di San Matteo
Norman limestone construction method that was brought to Clerkenwell in the 11th century. Columns are a symbol of wealth and power as are watches.
50. Reference: Norman Limestone Cathedrals
51. Reference: Powerful Architecture
The Egyptian temple, The Temple of Edfu’s architecture forces ones view on to the embodiment of cosmic power and order. The axiality of powerful buildings such as the Egyptian temple and Buckingham palace lead the supplicant to the source of authority. Axiality demonstrates authoritarian power. Whatever is at the end of that axis shows what the users of the building value the most.
Buckingham Palace, Throne room, utilising axiality
Structure: Concrete, Hempcrete, Steel, Limestone
Building Interior: Terracotta, London Stock Bricks, Timber, Cast Brass
Building Interior: Expensive materials suggestive of wealth Marble, Gold, Finest fabrics
The headwatchmaker’s throne (the queen ant) Process Render
Ants breaking down organic matter- as their role as decomposers
Symbol of death and decay
As ants are decomposers they are utilised as symbols of decay, infact Old English folks associated the ants with the Underworld and death. Since the ants build complicated structures under the Earth’s surface, it is expected for their spiritual meaning to be linked to death. Salvador Dali utlilises ants in his art. The swarming ants in Dalí’s pictures and sculptures are references to death and decay
Ants as decomposers, breaking down organic matter
56. Ant decomposers
Ants act as decomposers by feeding on organic waste, insects or other dead animals. They help keep the environment clean. Carpenter ants, which make their nests in dead or diseased wood, considerably accelerating the decomposition process of timber. After the ants leave, fungi and bacteria grow in the galleries and break down the lignin and cellulose on large surfaces. The concept of decomposition is important as it is a symbol of time passing, this element will be incorporated into the building’s design.
57. Paradoxical beauty of decay
These clay tiles serve to expose decay’s miniscule performance, to demonstrate it as a record of time passing in 3 stages all the while accentuating the ant as a key contributor to the performance of decay. Each clay tile has a petri dish imprint as a petri dish serves to observe microorganisms just as the watchmaker lens serves to observe the micro mechanisms. The first clay tile exposes the initial stage of decomposition whereby the organic matter begins to rot and grow fungus. The second tile exposes the paradoxical beauty of decay, the patterns ants and decomposers make in the matter and the third tile exposes decay on a cellular level, when the organic matter’s original form is no longer recognisable.
Will form tiles for the building
58. Ant Decomposers
The ant microcosmos, decay is exposed at different levels in its cycle, at different scales. The performance of decay is exposed from how we see it to how it appears on a cellular level. The clay tiles demonstrate that ants play a part in the process of decomposition.
Process Render: The Cafe and Bar highlighting the clay tile wall
Lighting and modelling: Cafe and Bar
Process Render: The Grand shop
- At this stage i felt that the lighting didnt accentuate the throne enough in the full render of the space
65. Panopticon Lift
The Panopticon system of control which is often used in prisons, in which the guard who sits in the tower can see all the prison inmates. In a similar way the ‘Queen’ Watchmaker’s lift will be strategically placed so that she has a prime viewing spot of the entire building to survey every individual that enters her factory.
Clerkenwell, a well established area used to be filled with prisons
Drawing Parrallels between the Panopticon and the theatre so that the Panopticon idea and the theatre concept can coexist in the building program concept.
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Ground Floor Iteration 2
1. Ticket booth for museum and shop
2. Display cases
Inside some of the display cases are rotating watch platforms inspired by the clock watch mechanism
3. Entrance Shaped like the head of an ant 4. Reception 5. Staff room 6. Shop
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The grand shop is designed in accordance to a renaissance theatre’s social hierarchy. The shop (the theatre) is open to the pubilc which are the ‘groundlings’ but the stage itself is where the nobility has access to (the ‘Queen’ watchmaker)
7. Queen watchmaker’s throne and stage
The stage rotates similar to that of a eccyclema, a rotating stage platform. When the ‘Queen’ watchmaker is not present the throne chair rotates to reveal watch display cases.
8. Service lift for watches 9. The ‘Queen’ watchmaker’s lift The ‘Queen’ watchmaker decends down in the lift along with the watches in the service lift giving the impression that she hand crafted the watches herself
10. Stairs acting as a viewing platform
Stairs platforms providing direct views onto the stage 11. Seating area
For customers who require a consultation to purchase a watch 12. Clock and watch museum
Open to the public 13. Museum display and storage 14. Toilets
15. Stairs leading up into the cuckoo clock 16. Cafe and bar Open to the public
17. Public lift servicing all floors
18. Entrance to the stage only for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker
The windows are arranged so that the ‘Queen’ watchmaker gets primary daylighting and the members of the public recieve secondary lighting while they watch the ‘Queen’ watchmaker walk past, accentuating her authority.
19. Stairs leading straight to the 2nd floor for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker
20. Cycle storage
21. Stairs servicing all floors
22. Entrance and exit for the watchmaker workers
67. The eccyclema, Greek revolving stage
The stage rotates to reveal a new scene
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1. Ticket booth for museum and shop
2. Display cases
Inside some of the display cases are rotating watch platforms inspired by the clock watch mechanism
3. Entrance Shaped like the head of an ant
4. Reception
5. Staff room
6. Shop
The grand shop is designed in accordance to a renaissance theatre’s social hierarchy. The shop (the theatre) is open to the pubilc which are the ‘groundlings’ but the stage itself is where the nobility has access to (the ‘Queen’ watchmaker)
7. Queen watchmaker’s throne and stage
The stage rotates similar to that of a eccyclema, a rotating stage platform. When the ‘Queen’ watchmaker is not present the throne chair rotates to reveal watch display cases.
8. Service lift for watches
9. The ‘Queen’ watchmaker’s lift
Ground Floor Iteration 3 +0.76m +1.14m
The ‘Queen’ watchmaker decends down in the lift along with the watches in the service lift giving the impression that she hand crafted the watches herself
10. Stairs acting as a viewing platform
Stairs platforms providing direct views onto the stage and they lead into the cuckoo clock
11. Seating area
For customers who require a consultation to purchase a watch
12. Clock and watch museum
Open to the public
13. Stairs leading to museum mezzanine
14. Museum display and storage 15. Toilets
16. Stairs leading up into the cuckoo clock 17. Cafe and bar
Open to the public
18. Public lift servicing all floors
19. Entrance to the stage only for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker
The windows are arranged so that the ‘Queen’ watchmaker gets primary daylighting and the members of the public recieve secondary lighting while they watch the ‘Queen’ watchmaker walk past, accentuating her authority.
20. Stairs leading straight to the 2nd floor for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker
21. Cycle storage
22. Stairs servicing all floors
Process Render: The Grand shop including the panopticon lift
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1. Ticket booth for museum and shop
2. Display cases
Inside some of the display cases are rotating watch platforms inspired by the clock watch mechanism
3. Entrance Shaped like the head of an ant
4. Reception
5. Staff room
6. Shop
Ground Floor +0.76m +1.14m
The grand shop is designed in accordance to a renaissance theatre’s social hierarchy. The shop (the theatre) is open to the pubilc which are the ‘groundlings’ but the stage itself is where the nobility has access to (the ‘Queen’ watchmaker)
7. Queen watchmaker’s throne and stage
The stage rotates similar to that of a eccyclema, a rotating stage platform. When the ‘Queen’ watchmaker is not present the throne chair rotates to reveal watch display cases.
8. Service lift for watches
9. The ‘Queen’ watchmaker’s lift
The ‘Queen’ watchmaker decends down in the lift along with the watches in the service lift giving the impression that she hand crafted the watches herself
10. Stairs acting as a viewing platform
Stairs platforms providing direct views onto the stage and they lead into the cuckoo clock
11. Seating area
For customers who require a consultation to purchase a watch
12. Clock and watch museum
Open to the public
13. Stairs leading to museum mezzanine
14. Museum display and storage 15. Toilets
16. Stairs leading up into the cuckoo clock 17. Cafe and bar
Open to the public
18. Public lift servicing all floors
19. Entrance to the stage only for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker
The windows are arranged so that the ‘Queen’ watchmaker gets primary daylighting and the members of the public recieve secondary lighting while they watch the ‘Queen’ watchmaker walk past, accentuating her authority.
20. Stairs leading straight to the 2nd floor for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker
21. Cycle storage
22. Stairs servicing all floors
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1st Floor - The ‘theatre’ mezzannine - only open to members -3.23m
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2. Reception and cloak storage
ID is checked to ensure only members enter the 1st floor. The mezzanine floor serves as the ‘ galleries’ that are found in a renaissance theatre only available for merchants.
3. Storage room and cleaner’s cupboard
4. Balcony for conversation
5. Cafe and bar to encourage discussions over the watches.
6. Rotating watchdisplays
Watch displays from the ground floor that can be viewed from the cafe and bar for people to look at and discuss over food and wine.
7. Stairs exclusively for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker Does not service this floor
8. Lift for ‘Queen’ ant Does not service this floor
9. Balcony/’theatre box’
A prime viewing spot of the stage on the ground floor for members.
10. Cupboards storing ‘opera glasses’ and watchmaker’s eyeglasses Glasses can be picked up from here, and used to look down onto the stage more clearly as they provide a magnified image.
11. Balcony for members and the watchmaker that recides on this floor
12. Watchmaker’s minature stage
For members to have a closer look at the watchmaking process
13. Stage for live music 14. Toilets
15. Stairs leading to 2nd Floor
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Second Floor
1. Lift servicing all floors
2. Cloak room for workers
3. Watchmaker’s workspace
4. Watchmaker’s desks in assembly line formation 5. Workers lunch break seating area 6. Kitchen for workers 7. Balcony looking down onto groundfloor 8. Office 9. Toilets 10. Lift for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker
Lift placed so that the ‘Queen’ watchmaker has a prime viewing spot to survey and supervise the watchmakers. 11. ‘Queen’ watchmaker’s private lounge 12. Live music exclusively for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker 13. Bar 14. Stage for a watchmaker
To perform watchmaking for the ‘Queen’ 15. ‘Queen’ watchmaker’s balcony
Designed for the queen to supervise the members and the watchmaker on the 1st floor.
16. Stairs exclusively for the ‘Queen’ watchmaker 17. Stairs leading to 1st floor
The Stage
Seating area for customers who require a consultation to purchase a watch
Through the Opera Glasses
The Cafe and Bar
The Queen Watchmaker’s Grand Shop
The Queen Watchmaker’s Grand Shop