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The project provides an alternative proposal for the site once occupied by Olive Morris House; the former Lambeth Council housing office in Brixton designed under Ted Hollamby in 1975, and named after the feminist and housing rights activist Olive Morris. The proposal is a new educational institution that explores drawing and building as constituent parts of an architectural education that necessarily combine in the act of squatting. The tripartite curriculum at the institution; of hand drawing, construction skills and squatting; explores through its architecture the relationship of architectural drawing to the construction process. And further to this, broader questions are raised as to the decline of architects working in both the public sector, and the wider national landscape of house building.
Differing internal conditions register the environmental conditions upon paper and other objects that accumulate over the years.
Paper pulp derived from thrown-away drawings are repurposed for students to test out plaster mixes and techniques, in turn cloaking the geometry of the space and heightening awareness of the internal space
As changing uses of the space dictate what entrances might be used, circulation around the building is directly effected by changing activities and users.