-Urban Hide-Viewing Gallery for Escapist City-dwellers

Adventure Escape ExploreDanger

DenRevertRetreat

-Conquer-

The ‘Primitive Hut’, ‘Original Dwelling’ and Origins of Architecture

Adventure/Danger/Escape/Conquer

Architectural Conquests

King of the Castle- ‘Primitive Hut’ atop London’s Urban Jungle

Adventuring city-dwellers

Viewpoint/Hide

Under strong winds, the suspended frame shakes whilst the heavy solid oak capsule rocks gently inside its rope cradle

Rope weave cradle with oak carved capsule resting inside

Frame waiting to be woven...

Wood waiting to be lathed...

-Chocolate Box-A Suburban Playhouse

LuxuryPleasure

TasteExcessVarietyChoiceExhibitCraftMelt

Mould-Leisure-

Extravagant Chocolate/Wood Craft

Suburban Luxury/Extravagance/Enhancement/Exhibitionism

Semi-detached Suburban bin/bike alleys..?

‘Chocolate box’ of tactile spaces

Mirrors rooms within house

Pin Sculpture wall

climb meet recline study

Cut-outs assemble furniture

Elastic wooden mattress

Sliding storage boxes/furniture

Suburban playhouse mirrors exisiting domestic spaces

Hide

Sleep

Socialise

Store

Play

‘Chocolate box’ of spaces with different functions and tactile qualities

-Hearth House-Services off the M40

ShelterSanctuary

RetreatGatherWarmRest

RefugeRelief

-Energy-

Rural/Urban?

Farmhouse/Cottage ruins

Motorways and Ruins

M40 Site

Clients

Biodigester- poo-oxygen=biogas+fertilizer

Construction fits around exisiting structure

“Back to nature” fleeting countryside visit

Model so far...

Existing structure, timber frame and thatch roof, hanging timber brick walls and lasercut corten windows

Materials and construction methods

Timber frame and thatched roof construction

Off-cut timber brick construction Laser cut steel corten

Materials and proposed construction methods

Moss carpetTimber bricks on rope

ThatchLaser cut corten