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Historically, Dungeness is a landscape of scientific experimentation and is home to Second World War test devices and exploratory navigation systems. Student work for Project One, which took its lead from these prototypical remains, included vibrating tensile interventions, a nomadic rolling enclosure and a re-reading of Plato’s Atlantis in the form of calcifying anodic lookout posts that protect the headland. From early, experimental envisionings, students developed individual building programmes based on a temporary occupation of the headland for a group of individuals. These included temporary housing for unaccompanied minors, therapeutic retreats, gin distillery alchemists, and a contemporary circus space.
A performance space carved into banks of shingle is surrounded by prototypical housing. This is a long section with exploded structural components, which reveals the performance space.
View from across the quarry lake showing totemic housing units held above the landscape through tensioned supports.
This shows the performance space at dusk.
A therapeutic retreat formed around a series of bespoke cultivation and treatment spaces. Garden rooms for Rosemary, Ylang Ylang, Lavender and Jasmine are arranged around an immersive sauna along the quarry edge.
Roof plan of Infusion Gardens abutting the quarry lake. Orientation due North.
Aerial view across the quarry lake to the East.
Axonometric of structural system. A composite structure for planting and horticultural habitation. Tea is grown, dried, and prepared. Daylight is harvested through winter-gardens forming building envelopes to Tea Houses.
View from the South-West at dusk.
Structural system of Tea Houses.
Community facility to address the needs of refugees landing on the Kent coast. Sectional axonometric showing workshop and residential spaces within the centre.
Undulating compressive shell structure forming a residential and educational space for different age groups of children in care. Daylight study exploring roof glazing variations to the structure.
Otherworld Studios. A state-of-the-art ‘mandalorian’ film studio on the Dungeness headland. Detail study for ‘Renderer’ accommodation units servicing the film studio.
Set in a future where bird migration is threatened by rising sea levels, the project explores woven structures as habitats for bird populations.
The project explores the calcification of towers under varying water conditions as pseudo-defensive structures along the Dungeness coastline.
Five interventions across the landscape of Dungeness make up a four-movement symphony. Tensegrity structures produce sounds through an aeolian harp mechanism, responding to the environment and in harmony with existing sounds.
This project investigates light conditions at Dungeness through climate analysis tools in order to reconstruct a simulated experience of the site along the boardwalk through a structural framing apparatus.
CFD analysis of iterating aerodynamic forms to curate turbulent air flow across the Dungeness landscape for varying levels of environmental comfort.
Nomadic structures are explored through smocking natural materials such as cotton and calico to form an expandable structural system on the Dungeness landscape.