Taking the work forward Some of the installation views I’ve shown have included images from the series ‘explorations’, where I examined the junctions between the Design, Media and Workshop blocks to try to convey the shift between their different characters. This work fails to realise my intentions about conveying the challenge - and interest - of the circulation patterns across the campus, so now I’m exploring a new way to capture how the different buildings combine to create the character of the place. It may be to do with how the 2003 intervention, by architect Allies and Morrison, has overlaid a single processional route through the differing volumes of the existing buildings, to create a sequence of galleries as the foreground to the working spaces above, below and around? I have continued to imagine the loss of the buildings by combining some of my experiments with the ‘paper tower’ with my findings from the UAL Archive. Here, the crumpled tower has ‘fallen’ across one of the original layouts from which these buildings were born. The plan used here is of the First Floor of the Workshop and Communal blocks, hand-drawn with ink on tracing-paper in 1958. This image feels ‘romantic’, and even feminine, to me and prompts me to think that ‘working with the buildings’ is a partnership and they should have a voice in this journey –especially the tower. Now –among other things - I’m planning to develop the installation I showed yesterday so I can share it with my network, in-person, in the coming autumn.
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