MArch: Reflective Journal

Due to the current circumstances of the university lockdown, in lieu of the semester 2 final review with external critics we have just...

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...

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...

This week, instead of having a tutorial over video call with Nick, we were timetabled to have self-organised peer-review sessions. The...

By this stage, the university and department have fully accepted that the closure of all campus facilities will continue until the end of...

By this stage, I have conducted a fairly substantial amount of research and investigation into most aspects of the construction process...

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...

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...

As well as carrying out my own physical modelling tests, I knew that I could also learn a lot about the fabric formwork process by...

The last week or so has seen a rapid change at the national level and also at the university level, due to the rapid escalation of the...

Having roughly devised a strategy for bracing the bamboo against the tension of the fabric and the weight of the cast material, based on...

For the next phase of physical testing, I wanted to look at how different types of fabrics or membranes would affect the casting process...

For this latest review, Nick had invited Ian Fletcher, a tutor in undergraduate architecture, to be our guest critic. Joe Mills...

Over the many hours spent putting together Grasshopper definitions to create the forms that I am proposing, including the indentations...

A few weeks ago, Nick mentioned that a contact of his, Chris Matthews, a structural engineer from Atelier One, may be a useful person for...

This week, Simon Warren invited two students, Hanzla Asghar and Jake Wright, who graduated last year from his studio, Cityzen Agency, to...

This Friday I went on a trip to Liverpool, to see the 'Forest of Fabrication' exhibition at RIBA North, and also to explore some more of...

Nick arranged for Adam, who had been the guest critic for our final review of last semester, to come and give us some tuition on Rhino,...

As part of the Open Lecture Series, a number of postgraduate students were asked to present work, to showcase some of the things being...

The initial two fabric formwork tests were both based on hanging the fabric loosely from a frame and then draping the material over...