Bartlett School of Architecture. Diploma in Architecture (Commendation)
Unit 22. Andrew Holmes
Passenger terminal, London City Airport - Concerned with light, both as a tool of navigation and as a way of creating a magical, ephemeral environment. The project aimed to capture the extraordinary experience of flight, giving the visitor a feeling of being immersed in the night sky high above the lights of the city.
Unit 21. CJ Lim, Christine Hawley
Rhubarb Farm, Hackney Marshes – A farm for rhubarb through -the technique of growing it under candlelight. The enclosure is a tower created from trays of candlelit rhubarb unveiled at night to become a bar and light-sculpture.
Bartlett School of Architecture. Bsc (Hons) in Architecture (2:1)
Unit 1: Tony Smart. Unit 3: Andrew Porter, Abigail Ashton
House for an Acrobat, Essex – Forms, structure and materials are based on the mapping of acrobatic movement.
Shaded Beach Park, New York – Calculated paths of shade and light are created at different times, linking spaces in shadow, controlling their inhabitation.
Gravity Corset
The City of Dreams
I walked through the city from sunset to sunrise. I looked at the areas surrounding the planned city, the infrastructure of roads and airports and ʻforgotten spacesʼ, as I walked I was drawn to the magical light and incidental spaces created.
This walk was documented in slide and animated to create my city of dreams. From this exploration of light and site I worked on a series of studies and models, dealing with the themes of transparency, light and reflection, explored through overlapping colours and opacities of materials and light.
City of Dreams
Wing Model
Light Installation Berlin
The installation attempts to materialise and three dimensionalise the animation of the previous models within the city of dreams.
It consists of a series of motorized circular mirrors; balancing light filters of varying transparency and colour, slide projectors, wind fans, and layers of voile. The projectors shine light onto the rotating mirrors, which reflect circular pools of light through the coloured filters onto the layers of gauze. The installation
is in constant motion; the mirrors moving at their own speeds, the screens balancing; changing the colour and direction of the light as it passes through them and the fans blowing air onto the voile making it ripple. The effect was one of the momentary overlapping of light and colour, which is constantly shifting; it is given a sense of depth and endlessness by the rippling layers of voile and the reflectiveness of the mirrors.
This installation was exhibited at the Aedes East Gallery in Berlin
Light Installation- Berlin
London City Airport - Site
The site is part of the Royal Albert Docks in the docklands area of London; it consists of a short runway, which is surrounded on its two long sides by water, for access for boats into the dock. On all sides of the site there are major roads and D.L.R railway lines. The area is currently undergoing much redevelopment with the expansion of the financial city based around Canary Wharf and the addition cultural areas like the Millennium Dome.
The current terminal is a small concrete two storey building, with no views on to the site or the planes, it is a very inward looking plain building and does not attempt in any way to celebrate the phenomena of flight, or explore the potential beauty of a plane landing in a stark landscape of lights on a floating runway. The position of the car park and the transport routes into the city mean that there is a long walk from the terminal building to cars buses or trains.
The airport terminal is currently a fast track route to destinations in Britain and Europe, it is well connected to the city and to the centre of London, but due to the limited number of flights and high price of travelling it is used mainly by business people and celebrities, for same-day-return travel to meetings and appointments.
London City Airport - Site
Passenger terminal London City Airport.
The Terminal attempts to link the past and present systems of air and sea travel within the site of London city airport and its surrounding Landscape. The intention is to create a magical forest like space, which addresses the dream like qualities of flying, navigation and astronomy. The project addresses the non-technical elements of the airport, the surrounding landscape of car parks, roads, water and sky, and the acts of meeting people, waiting, resting, eating, drinking and plane spotting. The aim is
to make tactile the extra ordinary qualities of air travel, both specific to the site but also linking it metaphysically and poetically. This is addressed by attempting to extend the phenomenon of flight from the aeroplane to the ground by exhibiting and celebrating the machinery of flying, and the tools of navigation in the stars and the water.
Passenger terminal - Floor plan
Passenger terminal - Roof plan
Passenger terminal - Visual
Passenger terminal - Elevation
Rhubarb Bar Hackney
