“IPT Architects creates rib cage-like pavilion using wooden frames” Looking at small timber structures for my site, i have started designing looking at a rib cage expanding across the site creating a space with seating for an open air performance … Continue reading Dream Pavilion – timber frame structures
Over Christmas, I continued my search for data to plug into the GIS mapping software I used to create the heat maps on my previous posts. Here is a graphic showing the commute in the northeast which follows a very … Continue reading MAPPING 04// Commute in the North East
My project is located in Shieldfield, Newcastle – once an area of common land, then an area of industry dominated by pottery manufacturing. The central area of Shieldfield is now a social housing estate, which is slowly being closed in on by private student accommodation developments. The scenario begins when a community kiln is built in the area. Clay is used as an initial tool to engage with the community, when a clay workshop (building on the history of the area) is used to create plates displaying imagery designed to provoke conversation during a meal hosted at the forum café. This is the first step to developing a brief with the community and to form ideas about the future of Shieldfield. Continue reading Anna // Week 12 Review
After hearing John Hulme’s journey from Byker to the rest of the world as a transient worker (post detailing this to follow), I became interested in two main things about his story: his wider links between Newcastle and the world, and his local, social links with just a few significant streets in Newcastle. This post looks into Newcastle’s ‘Twins’, the notion of ‘Town Twinning’, and thinks about the idea of ‘Sister Streets’? Continue reading “Twinning & Sisters”
The following information is taken from a publication by Egger (a global timber manufacturer) called ‘Forestry and wood processing in the Borderlands Growth Deal’. It talks about the incentive to increase the existing infrastructure and network across the timber manufacturing industry between Scotland and England at the borderlands. Ultimately, the strategy proposed by Egger, aims to improve the economy within the borderlands, become an opportunity for improving employment, and to improve the logistical issues associated with cross-border transportation of timber between England and Scotland. As my project is located within Kielder, this was definitely an interesting read, particularly with my … Continue reading Forestry and Wood Processing in the Borderlands Growth Deal: By Egger
This is a post I came across on Instagram this morning, and I wanted to share it because I loved the way in which the IGer expresses the value she has given to an inanimate object through a story. The … Continue reading Black Mug
Steph and myself were assigned ‘Regeneration of the Tyne Bank’ for our group mapping, and I looked at historic maps of a few different areas along the river, one of which was Ouseburn. From my research into Ouseburn, I found … Continue reading Anna // Week 7 Review
The North of England is a fluid thing. To draw a boundary on a map defining where it begins and ends proves an impossible task – every map that exists claiming to do such a thing plots a different line … Continue reading The North – Identity
What work looks like across the North has changed dramatically over the past couple of centuries. But interestingly and importantly, two centuries ago, events in the North of England changed what work looked like across the globe. This post explores … Continue reading The North – Industry
The history of the British Isles is fraught with tales of contest, territory and frontier. This is the first in a series of three posts outlining my explorations into ‘The North’, and what it means historically, industrially, and in terms … Continue reading The North – History
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