SPRING-SUMMER STUDIO
MARLBOROUGH, MERLIN, MORGAN LE FEY
AA3DS6 - Complexity
Our Spring and Summer project started at Marlborough Mound, the legendary burial site of Merlin. The town’s motto is: Ubi nunc sapientis ossa Merlini, “Where now are the bones of wise Merlin”… Morgan le Fay is a more recently prominent figure in the Arthurian legend. We studied the landscape that lies between Reading and Bath, bounded to the north by the M4 and to the south by the Kennet and Avon canal. The town of Marlborough lies roughly halfway and other towns in this area include: Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Melksham, Calne, Devizes, Royal Wootton Bassett, Swindon, Hungerford and Newbury. If you were walking to Reading from Bath you’d pass through the Vale of Pewsey, The Marlborough Downs and the Berkshire Downs. Each student researched an imaginary walk through a 2k wide by 25k long strip of this territory mapping relevant happenings. Together the strips covered the entire territory in detail. We next considered the actions of radical nature lovers who are secretly breeding endangered species and releasing them into the wild and the incredible revival being staged by Badgers, Stoats and Otters, and we considered the barriers of the M4 and canal to the spread of these reintroductions and revivals. A species development strategy, orchard, support for a local community group and animal bridge formed the basis to the brief, some fifty animal bridges, orchards and new community facilities, spaced along the M4, being the consequence of the project.
Module Convenor: Oliver Froome-Lewis
Design Studio Team: Oliver Froome-Lewis, John Harding, Mike Kane, Sabrina Morreale, Michelle Tomlinson.
Technical Sessions: Structures: Millie Beesley, Peter Corbett, Environment: Sabine Hogenhout.
Review Guests External: Bob Allies, Eugenie Dürfeld-Giovanelli, Hyunbai Jun, Nazar Ali Khan, Juan Pedro Leiva Lopez, Nacho Marti, Lorenzo Perri, Vseva Kondratiev-Popov, Matt Ruddy, Patrick Ueberbacher, Matthew Utley, Nasios Varnavas, Alvaro Velasco.
Review Guests Internal: Lorraine Farrelly, Stephen Gage, Negin Ghorbani, Penelope Plaza, Sayan Skandarajah, Carolina Vasilikou, Izabela Wieczorek.
Our Spring and Summer project started at Marlborough Mound, the legendary burial site of Merlin. The town’s motto is: Ubi nunc sapientis ossa Merlini, “Where now are the bones of wise Merlin”… Morgan le Fay is a more recently prominent figure in the Arthurian legend. We studied the landscape that lies between Reading and Bath, bounded to the north by the M4 and to the south by the Kennet and Avon canal. The town of Marlborough lies roughly halfway and other towns in this area include: Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Melksham, Calne, Devizes, Royal Wootton Bassett, Swindon, Hungerford and Newbury. If you were walking to Reading from Bath you’d pass through the Vale of Pewsey, The Marlborough Downs and the Berkshire Downs. Each student researched an imaginary walk through a 2k wide by 25k long strip of this territory mapping relevant happenings. Together the strips covered the entire territory in detail. We next considered the actions of radical nature lovers who are secretly breeding endangered species and releasing them into the wild and the incredible revival being staged by Badgers, Stoats and Otters, and we considered the barriers of the M4 and canal to the spread of these reintroductions and revivals. A species development strategy, orchard, support for a local community group and animal bridge formed the basis to the brief, some fifty animal bridges, orchards and new community facilities, spaced along the M4, being the consequence of the project.
Module Convenor: Oliver Froome-Lewis
Design Studio Team: Oliver Froome-Lewis, John Harding, Mike Kane, Sabrina Morreale, Michelle Tomlinson.
Technical Sessions: Structures: Millie Beesley, Peter Corbett, Environment: Sabine Hogenhout.
Review Guests External: Bob Allies, Eugenie Dürfeld-Giovanelli, Hyunbai Jun, Nazar Ali Khan, Juan Pedro Leiva Lopez, Nacho Marti, Lorenzo Perri, Vseva Kondratiev-Popov, Matt Ruddy, Patrick Ueberbacher, Matthew Utley, Nasios Varnavas, Alvaro Velasco.
Review Guests Internal: Lorraine Farrelly, Stephen Gage, Negin Ghorbani, Penelope Plaza, Sayan Skandarajah, Carolina Vasilikou, Izabela Wieczorek.
