Final Portfolio
Plants on the Move Workshop and Exhibition Centre Guided tours, specified route patterns and focussed material, constitute the large majority of today’s cultural establishments. Led by an interest in the […]
Category Archives: Architecture
A collection of Paul’s architectural projects, both in practice and whilst studying at undergraduate and masters level.
Plants on the Move
Based on an earlier demographic appraisal and suggested archetype for each of the economic botany collections, I have chosen the Plants on the Move exhibition as be the first to be designed. […]
Economic Botany
On a second visit to Kew Gardens I discovered the People + Plants exhibition in Museum number 1. It is currently the largest display of the worldwide uses for plants and for […]
Tensegrity Variations
With the basic principles of tensegrity understood, I took to computational design and parametric modelling in order to test the possibilities of altering the generic sticks and string modules as showcased by […]
Bio Tensegrity
Finding nature’s representative of Tabula Rasic learning was one thing. However, in order to extract a structural system from Slime Mould, I had to delve into the microscopic. The questions […]
Slime Mould
Of the formerly explored growth patterns in nature, none truly contained an inherent investigative approach to their growth. Slime mould however, does. It is a single celled organism, forming a super […]
Growth patterns in nature
As a way of discovering natures epitomic of Tabula Rasic learning, this page is devoted to numerous autonomous growth patterns in nature. Mycelium A network of branched, tubular filaments (hyphae) […]
Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa Waiting to be found, are unthinkable treasures. Explore, look around. While Kew Gardens is renowned for its beautiful botanical gardens and natural species, some may not know about […]
Brief’s A & B
Brief’s A & B represent the early investigations into nature and structure, with early developments into single surface structures. These understandings will be carried through as a story is developed through discoveries […]
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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