Abdulrahman Farahat
Project title
Upon Greenham Common, prevalent south westerly wind dominates the open terrain and commands the landscape around. With such force, a recurring environment throughout the common, its presence is an overwhelming factor across the site.
Hailing its rich aeronautics and RAF history, through a response to wind conditions and a yearly public festival, Greenham Common’s sustainable community harnesses, celebrates and draws upon the sheer power of the conditions present. The site is home to an agricultural community, a public exhibition demonstrating the achievements of the self-sufficient town, and a festival. During the festival the public are engaged within the core of the town and take part in light-hearted family fun in the form of kite flying, paper plane and paper boat racing all of which are made with on-site produced straw paper and constructed by the public in the workshops of the community.
Wind, Animation, Festival, Sustainable, Straw
Upon Greenham Common, prevalent south westerly wind dominates the open terrain and commands the landscape around. With such force, a recurring environment throughout the common, its presence is an overwhelming factor across the site.
Hailing its rich aeronautics and RAF history, through a response to wind conditions and a yearly public festival, Greenham Common’s sustainable community harnesses, celebrates and draws upon the sheer power of the conditions present. The site is home to an agricultural community, a public exhibition demonstrating the achievements of the self-sufficient town, and a festival. During the festival the public are engaged within the core of the town and take part in light-hearted family fun in the form of kite flying, paper plane and paper boat racing all of which are made with on-site produced straw paper and constructed by the public in the workshops of the community.
Wind, Animation, Festival, Sustainable, Straw
Circus in a Box
Inspired by its name Kooza, which means a boxin sunskrit reflecting their design concept as a circus in a box. Kooza a performance theme of the Circus “Cirque du Soleil” which includes high-wire performances. The design takes the name theme into a more literal definition and the design is a building that looks like a box that houses a circus in the middle when it opens. The performance space the is revealed from within the box is a scaled-up version of the circus’s constant performance space that they tour the world with.
Inspired by its name Kooza, which means a boxing Sanskrit reflecting their design concept as a circus in a box. Kooza a performance theme of the Circus “Cirque du Soleil” which includes high-wire performances. The design takes the name theme into a more literal definition and the design is a building that looks like a box that houses a circus in the middle when it opens. The performance space the is revealed from within the box is a scaled-up version of the circus’s constant performance space that they tour the world with.
