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...
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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
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...
Oliver Haigh
Jan 26, 20202 min read
Third Pomona Island site visit
I returned to the site a week after the previous visit, with the primary aim of attaining the photos for the photographic site sections...
Oliver Haigh
Jan 17, 20203 min read
Second Pomona Island site visit
With the Technology module out of the way and the DS3 draft hand-in coming up imminently, it has felt like a good time to really...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 29, 20193 min read
'Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes + Eco-Warriors', book by CJ Lim and Ed Liu
As it is the Christmas break from teaching,I decided to take some time to read the Smartcities book that I bought at the end of CJ Lim's...
Oliver Haigh
Dec 4, 20192 min read
'Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes', CJ Lim lecture
This Wednesday concluded the Open Lecture Series for this semester, with CJ Lim coming to talk about his and Ed Liu's book Smartcities,...
Oliver Haigh
Nov 7, 20192 min read
Semester 1 interim review
This was the first pin-up for this project with all previous tutorials being table-top tutorials. The selection of work that I showed...
Oliver Haigh
Oct 28, 20192 min read
Site-grown materials: bamboo
Having adopted agroforestry and permaculture as principles for the food-production programme on the site, I am now beginning to think...
Oliver Haigh
Oct 23, 20192 min read
'Our Earth's Ice is Melting', Andrew Shepherd lecture
In the second session of this Autumn's Open Lecture Series, Andrew Shepherd, Professor of Earth Observation from the University of Leeds,...
Oliver Haigh
Oct 21, 20195 min read
Permaculture and agroforestry
After reading Vincent Walsh's article in Fruitful Futures: Imagining Pomona, I decided to undertake more research into the topic of...
Oliver Haigh
Oct 19, 20193 min read
Fruitful Futures: Imagining Pomona
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...
Oliver Haigh
Oct 17, 20193 min read
First Pomona Island site visit
After a period of a couple of weeks of undertaking precedent studies for design philosophy, methodology, and process [see blog post Oct...
Oliver Haigh
Oct 13, 20193 min read
George Haydock film: 'Pomona Island' (2014)
"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...
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