276amt_amtico

In her choice of amtico floor tiles, Ms Barclay is inspired by Polynesia.

WHAT_architecture 19-Jul-2016
Category: 276amt_Amtico | WHAT_projects
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265cos_ROOF DESIGN ITERATIONS

A number of analogue models were made to test the geometry of the roof (which has a leaning mansard of 60, 72 and 5 degrees) against the existing context.

North point of view.

WHAT_architecture 19-Jul-2016
Category: 265cos_Game of Homes
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056mod_PIMP MY CARCASS

Furnicatecture.

WHAT_architecture 23-Jun-2016
Category: 056mod_Modling House | WHAT_projects
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177mot_BEACH AS PROTEST SPACE

Sand drawings: the beach as a protest canvas: Waikawau Bay in the Coromandel, New Zealand. See also Ship Happens regarding the Rena hitting the Astrolabe Reef off Motiti Island in the Bay of Plenty.

WHAT_architecture 29-Apr-2016
Category: 177mot_Motiti Master Plan
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128art_CONTESTED FIELDS

‘Unfairy tales’ is the story of Mustafa forced to flee Syria as told by our Shoreditch neighbours, artists Gilles and Cecile, who are based in Redchurch Street.

WHAT_architecture 15-Apr-2016
Category: 128art_shoreditch underground
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The Spotted Dog was originally a late 15^th Century country house located outside the city walls. Over the intervening 500y, the Spotted Dog has accumulated various architectural styles. Converted into a highwayman’s Inn in the early 19th Century, this Listed Building today stands derelict.

WHAT_architecture 07-Apr-2016
Category: 221dog_Spotted Dog
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000mot_Someone built a house on the runway!

Building as a political act has been, historically, a legitimate means of architectural expression. blablablarchitecture recognises ‘talking through building’ as a form of media communication. Someone has built a structure, presumably a house, on the komiti minuted, CAA NZ guided, Google map recognised airstrip on Motiti Island. Granted this does not have the grandeur resonance say against the proposed planning of a third runway for Heathrow, but this simple timber frame structure is nonetheless a highly provocative protest placard. The structure, presumably a house given the skeletal timber frame seems compliant with NZS3604, has rather been deliberately been placed on the runway on Motiti Island. Yet by building this stealth structure over the course of a public holiday (Easter), planning barristers in NZ comment that they are ‘gob smacked’. The runway is now out of use. In doing so, the umbilical chord of the flight path is severed and thus some islanders are now stranded on the mainland, awaiting a clear landing path post-injunction.

WHAT_architecture 30-Mar-2016
Category: 000mot_House on Motiti | 177mot_Motiti Master Plan | WHAT_projects
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048per_Villameter: Home of the Year 2016!

A house is an object, typically a residential building. The idea of the house as an object of desire has arisen through visual qualities relating to shelter, form, scale and materiality. A home is ‘for living in’ and refers to both a building space and to a locational place. As a space a home is, first and foremost, social; as a place it is our identity. These non-visual qualities relating to use and occupancy mean the home creates, after family, our founding sense of place. The Villameter as a home lays bear the frugal modernity of its occupants. This is not the house as showroom but the house decluttered…

The Villameter lost to it’s polar opposite: the Iron Maiden is (partially) made from recycled corrugated iron and located in a rural setting.

WHAT_architecture 30-Mar-2016
Category: 048per_Villa XX | WHAT_projects
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270lau_HOTELAUNDRETTE: AN ARCHITECTURAL LOBOTOMY

In Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas refers to the architectural lobotomy where the contemporary city has disengaged form from function. In this sense, a lock-up in East London is merely a container whose external expression has little relationship to the undetermined interior activity within. The façade presented not as a face but as a mask. In engaging with the urban fabric why bother with the surface treatment of the exterior at all? Architects have been guilty of exterior decoration so why not just leave the streetscape as-is? This provides for a surprise upon entry, brokers the unexpected, of not knowing what’s behind… I privilege here not ‘interior architecture’ but more importantly ‘architecture as interior’. Satan’s Whiskers in Bethnal Green is one such flip between inside and out. Hotelaundrette is proposed here as another: enter here. Below this difference between inside and outside is represented in the architectural image: golden interior vs grainy exterior.