203car_PLASTIC PLANE HANGAR

WHAT_architecture ‘plastic’ rendering of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner – a plastic plane’ – inside the proposed wide bodied aircraft maintenance facility for Christchurch… the 100m spanning hangar naturally enough is made from recycled plastic.

WHAT_architecture 25-Jul-2013
Category: 203car_aircraft hangar | WHAT_projects
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209gub_TESCO TEST COT.

‘Tesco Test Cot’ is the WHAT_architecture vision of local convenience retail housing. This vision, which we also thought to brand as ‘Tesco Fresco’, is a based on Britain’s grocery and general merchandise retailer, the second largest in the world. Since we subscribed to Tesco’s ‘Every Little Bit Helps’, i.e. we took on the job for what the profession might call a Chaveloper rather than learned money, how could we optimistically use a ruthless commercial developer rationale to squeeze every drop of quality out of this mixed use retail-housing project? Buy one bedroom, get the second at a 50% discount? Offer finishes 30th July 2013. How could we apply retail strategies authentically so as to be a fresh testbed?

WHAT_architecture 23-Jul-2013
Category: 209gub_Tesco Test Cot | WHAT_projects
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048per_MANNEKIN PIS GUTTER OVERFLOW

Concealed blocked gutters? Install a Mannekin Pis type discharge warning system…

WHAT_architecture 23-Jul-2013
Category: 048per_Villa XX | WHAT_projects
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127sho_LOCAL STAKEHOLDER PIXEL DATABASE

WHAT_architecture 19-Jul-2013
Category: 127sho_Shoreditch Overground
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209gub_ARCHITECTURAL MASHUP

The Whale (Amsterdam) + Carluccio’s Restaurant (Dublin) = 209gub_retail housing in Gubbins Lane, Essex. We did a 10min Google-Photoshop brainstorm as building programme remix mashup. No, really: 10minutes at 72dpi. Not HD. Just a quick POV test…

WHAT_architecture 15-Jul-2013
Category: 000off_WHAT_process | 209gub_Tesco Test Cot | WHAT_projects
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048per_PLYWOOD HOUSE

In the process of building, projects materially metamorphose. A timber frame house begets a plywood house which in turn begets a rubber membrane house which will beget a weatherboard house… sometimes buildings look better in an earlier part of the process than the finished product. Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin comes to mind: the concrete structure arguably looked more sombre and befitting of its programme than the shiny finished article… we hope this is not the case here!

WHAT_architecture 08-Jul-2013
Category: 048per_Villa XX | WHAT_projects
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