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This blog is a space to document the final year of my Master of Architecture degree at the Leeds School of Architecture. It will be a...
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Oliver Haigh
May 25, 20203 min read
A Personal Position
It is my view that the success and value of any given piece of architecture is dictated not by its adoption of any particular style, form...
Oliver Haigh
May 24, 20203 min read
The Design Studio Context
My MArch1 work was created in the context of Keith Andrews’ Abstract Machine studio. This studio focused on a prototypical design...
Oliver Haigh
May 23, 20203 min read
The Design Thesis
My design thesis project, Laboratory of Productive Ecologies, is sited on Pomona Island, a strip of brownfield land bounded by the...
Oliver Haigh
May 22, 20204 min read
Technical and Technological Questions
Key to my design process has been a hybrid technological toolkit, amalgamating digital and analogue tools in interlinked programmes of...
Oliver Haigh
May 21, 20203 min read
Further Development
On the Pomona site, the Laboratory of Productive Ecologies will continue to develop in 4-yearly phases. The primary programme is always...
Oliver Haigh
May 19, 20203 min read
Planning Issues
Trafford Local Plan: Core Strategy (TLPCS) (figs.1,2, Appendix E), adopted by Trafford Council in 2012 and setting out their vision up to...
Oliver Haigh
May 18, 20203 min read
Development Appraisal Scenario
The present reality of the site is that it is owned by The Peel Group and is earmarked for mixed-use development by them. Prior to this,...
Oliver Haigh
May 17, 20203 min read
Procurement and Risk
With regards to the three major project management constraints of cost, time, and scope/quality, time is the least pressing issue...
Oliver Haigh
May 16, 20202 min read
Architectural Practice
The architecture practice running this project, Productive Ecologies Architects, will work from a small office on the site. This is to...
Oliver Haigh
May 15, 20203 min read
Professional Reflection
After completing my Master of Architecture degree, I would like to find employment as a Part 2 architectural assistant in a small to...
Oliver Haigh
May 14, 20202 min read
Phone call welcome into UVW-SAW
This evening a member of UVW-SAW, Taty, phoned me to welcome me to the union and explain to me more about its workings and ways that I...
Oliver Haigh
May 13, 20203 min read
Cross-studio review via Microsoft Teams
Due to the current circumstances of the university lockdown, in lieu of the semester 2 final review with external critics we have just...
Oliver Haigh
May 10, 20203 min read
Natural growth as inspiration for site development
At the end of DS3, I had used the growth of bacteria in a petri dish as a visual analogy for how the site could develop in phases. Of...
Oliver Haigh
May 6, 20201 min read
Charting food and material flows
One of the aspects of my project that has taken a bit of time to work out is the phases of development, how this correlates with the food...
Oliver Haigh
May 3, 20203 min read
Technology DSIT C submission
I have just submitted my Design Studio Integrated Technology C (DSIT C) report. This is the second component that makes up the MArch2...
Oliver Haigh
May 1, 20202 min read
Joining United Voices of the World: Section of Architectural Workers
In a previous blog post, I mentioned how Geraldine Dening of ASH brought the new trade union for workers in the architecture industry to...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 29, 20202 min read
Peer-review video call
This week, instead of having a tutorial over video call with Nick, we were timetabled to have self-organised peer-review sessions. The...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 25, 20202 min read
Arup engineers correspondence
As one of our two sessions with engineering consultants for technology was cancelled in the run-up to lockdown, and as we have been...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 20, 20202 min read
Working under continued lockdown
By this stage, the university and department have fully accepted that the closure of all campus facilities will continue until the end of...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 15, 20205 min read
Fabric formwork physical modelling: 1:10 column process model
By this stage, I have conducted a fairly substantial amount of research and investigation into most aspects of the construction process...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 11, 20205 min read
Fabric formwork physical modelling: reinforcement strategies tests
After testing out bracing, I've now moved back to the main set of physical testing, focused on fabric formwork. The latest aspect of the...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 6, 20201 min read
Fabricate 2020 book
As an update to the blog post on the Fabricate 2020 conference from a few days ago, I have found out that the Fabricate 2020 book has...
Oliver Haigh
Apr 6, 20203 min read
Video call with Peter Corbett of Corbett & Tasker
About a month on from having a discussion with Chris Matthews, I've now had the opportunity to run my scheme past another engineer, Peter...
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