MArch: Reflective Journal

Building on my work with historical maps, the first thing that I had decided that I needed to do was to redraw the maps that I had found...

As has already been stated, a large part of my analysis of the site has been focused around the history of the site and how it has...

The final modules to do were to test and demonstrate the casting on formwork process. For this, I used a card formwork/mould, built from...

The second module to construct was the formwork applied to the bamboo. To make this, I first of all laser-cut the net in mountboard. I...

The first module that I made was the bamboo structure. This is something which could be clad in some form of sheeting or textile to be...

To test the idea of using bamboo for creating temporary structures and for the structural basis for casting permanent parts of the site,...

Up until now, I haven't particularly considered or tested bamboo in terms of how it would create the structures on the site, as I have...

This was the first pin-up for this project with all previous tutorials being table-top tutorials. The selection of work that I showed...

So far, most of my design development has been around the programme and materiality. Whilst I am only near the beginning of the project,...

Having adopted agroforestry and permaculture as principles for the food-production programme on the site, I am now beginning to think...

As my project is going in the direction of food production and possibly using site-grown materials for developing parts of the site, it...

This week's studio took a rather unique approach, where we undertook a design process exercise or 'game' all together. This was based on...

After reading Vincent Walsh's article in Fruitful Futures: Imagining Pomona, I decided to undertake more research into the topic of...

Visiting the site for the first time really emphasised for me the importance of the nature and ecologies present on the site, so I then...

After a period of a couple of weeks of undertaking precedent studies for design philosophy, methodology, and process [see blog post Oct...

"It's waiting, but I'm not quite sure what it's waiting for." ––– Luke Bennett [00:49] George Haydock's 2014 film Pomona Island is a...

In the first studio session of the year on the 3rd October, once the brief had been introduced, we were then given a precedent study...

My thesis project is going to be developed within the 'Field Works' studio, led by Nick Tyson. This is a new studio this year, making it...