Kew Gardens
The subject of my final project is Kew Gardens. Visiting there on a cold winter’s morning maybe did not showcase Kew in all it’s splendour, however, it did instigate a […]
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Unit Trip – Turin
This year’s unit trip saw us head out to Turin, Italy. While the trip focussed on capturing the magnificent works by Nervi, Mollino, Piano and Trucco’s Fiat Factory, the city itself […]
Photography Workshop – National Theatre
We were fortunate enough to be treated to a basic photography workshop by both Robbie Polley and Sue Barr in the National Theatre, London. Set at night, the primary focus was […]
Monument to the Third International
The second of my structural investigations focussed on Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International. Inspired by Paris’s Eiffel Tower and Athanasius Kircher’s seventeenth-century representation of the Tower of Babel, Tatlin […]
Single Surface Structures
The design studio leaders, Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu have spent a number of years testing and exploring the possibilities of a structural technique they have coined ‘Shell Lace’. Deconstructing […]
Carlo Mollino
Investigations into nature set the premise for the studio ethos. However, detailed studies into existing structural methodologies and techniques will help to formulate rational possibilities for the realisation of these […]
Brief 1 – The Graptolite
Start of a new year, start of a new brief. Natural Systems this time around and having been given typologies we were set the task to work in groups (one first […]
ATP World Arena Models
Belated upload of my final 3D print and 1:20 junction detail model photos from the ATP World Arena project last year.
The Hayam Sun Temple
WE DID IT!!! Thank you to all those who helped to support the Hayam Sun Temple. It stood strong through the wind and rain and was able to play host […]
Help build the Hayam Temple – Burning Man
In early August I will hopefully be travelling to America to help build the Hayam Temple for the Burning Man Festival in the Navada Desert. Designed by Josh Haywood, the Hayam […]
Paul Thorpe 