"The showcase is an exhibition and feedback event designed to support your Diploma study. The presentation will require you to summarise and articulate your thesis question (and) to illustrate, create or build an artefact."
Monday, January 17, 2011
Revised second semester design.
Establishing a relevant and needed use on the site at Bursledon is essential in order for the scheme to present a feasible and long lasting solution.
This proposals therefore attempt to interrogate the 'need' on the site and the suitability of various functions such as the museum and brick archive that may not in fact be feasible due to the detached location of the buildings and indeed the specialist content which will only appeal to limited client base.
Therefore by focusing on the training and education element that already takes place on the site, how can this be developed and strengthen to provide a relative and feasible narrative for BBW that will allow it to be integrated within its surroundings yet retain an element of process and activity that has arguably defined the site throughout it development.
Here the whole site is envisaged as a process of re-use and sustainably. Sustainably sourced recycled or waste materials move through various clearings in a woodland landscape, which shelter market gardens, orchards, reed beds and small scale animal stock. The brickworks themselves will accommodate a resource centre, artisan live/work units, workshops, classrooms and all the facilities to provide day and residential courses in collaboration with the Ruskin Mill Educational Trust and the Weald and Downland Museum. A refectory will use produce sourced from the and the entire site will be fully open to the public where feasible and the facilities available for use by the local and wider community, in addition to conferences. A visitor walkway allows the public to view classes and workshop from an elevated position ending next to the original Staffordshire kilns which will contain galleries of student work and a small exhibition about the site.
Connecting the entire site will be a conveyer line acting as a central spine distributing the materials, this will be driven by the existing restored steam engine fired by a woodchip boiler. This engine will be used to teach the basics of mechanics and also as an exemplar of how existing machinery can be recycled and run sustainably.
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