MODELING. EXPLORING THE ANCHORING

HORNIMAN MUSEUM

VISITING HORNIMAN MUSEUM

Victorian tea trader, collector and public benefactor Frederick John Horniman began collecting specimens and artefacts from around the World in the 1860's. Horniman's key mission was to bring the world to Forest Hill and he opened part of his family house to the public so they could view the riches he had collected. As the collections increased they outgrew the family home and in 1898 Horniman commissioned Charles Harrison Townsend to design a new Museum.

The original collections comprised natural history specimens, cultural artefacts and musical instruments. 

VISITING THE SITE. CANVEY ISLAND

Canvey Island is an Island lying off the South Coast of Essex in the Thames Estuary, England. The Island is about 3 meters below sea level and periodical flooding continued to blight the small population. The island was mainly agricultural land until the 20th century when it became the fastest growing seaside resort in Britain. 

THE END OF UNIT 1.

VISITING THE SITE. TILBURY

Tilbury is a town in Essex (east part of England) with a population of 12091 people. The location has been a communication link, as the town is next to the Thames river: a cross-river ferry was connected with a town from another side of the river - Gravesend from very early times. The Port of Tilbury is still the main UK port for importing paper, including newsprint and handles a variety of bulk cargo, timber, cars and container traffic. 

MODELING. IDEA - CULTURAL BRIDGE - THREE PAVILIONS

OSCAR WILDE - SYMPHONY IN YELLOW

An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly,
And, here and there, a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge.

Big barges full of yellow hay
Are moored against the shadowy wharf,
And, like a yellow silken scarf,
The thick fog hangs along the quay.

The yellow leaves begin to fade
And flutter from the Temple elms,
And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade.

SENCE OF PROVOCATION. BELA TARR - WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES

The idea of provocation in my project is more linked to the unpredictability of the object’s appearance. The issue is the reaction caused by unexpectedness: flouting structure each time, emerging in different points of the land. The actual “body”, as you see it from outside does not always tell us what you can expect inside, especially when the object or the “body” appears suddenly without any announcements. In the movie “Werckmeister Harmonies“ directed by Hungarian film director Bela Tarr in 2000, the idea of unpredictability is very similar to that, which I would like to express in my work. The appearance of the circus trailer with a stuffed carcass of a whale in the middle of the small town disturbs the normal life of the local people. The presence of strangers causes tension and changes in the relationship between villagers. Some of them remain uncertain while some demonstrate destructive emotions, as the mysterious situation creates a view of ‘another world’. Inner changes in society provoke people to react, however the outcome can be always different. 

COLLAGES!

BRITISH LAND. STAGE 3

collaboration with Ludmila Bebjakova 

We made a research on Regent’s Place: we were interested how the area looked in the past, what types of buildings were occupying the region. We found out that the material that we want to use for our project was the most frequently used for construction of residential properties before it became home to several offices and commercial spaces.

“The Euston Road corridor has a significant role to play in the historic and future development of Regent’s Place. Originally known as ‘New Road’, it ran at right angles to the main boundaries of the estates through which it passed. The road’s isolation from its surroundings survived into the 19^th century and remained until well into the 20^th century. In particular, when housing development moved north of the road with the laying-out of Regent’s park and Euston Square c.1810, the grain of development remained strongly north/south, rather than east/west along the line of the route. The development of the estates flanking the New Road was concentrated in the London housing boom of c.1815-1830

To the north lies the Regent’s Park Estate an almost entirely residential area, developed in the 1960’s. To the west is a triangular city space defined by Albany Street, Longford Street and Osnaburgh Street. Within this space lie three listed buildings, namely the Holy Trinity Church designed by Sir John Soane, Great Portland street Underground Station and The White House Hotel.”*

This is one of the reasons why we would like to bring the memory back to demonstrate the drifting of these objects into the previous time passages.

* Regent's Place, Osnabourgh Street, Public Exhibition, 2004, Printed by British Land

MODELS FOR BRITISH LAND

The contemporary time is very unstable; it changes from one element to the other. The traditional materials used in architecture are changing their conventional way of operations. For this reason, we would like to expose concrete, bricks, and steel as components in such of modern architectural surrounding as Euston area. It would be in one way reversed and less practical, however would become far more exciting and interactive.

We have also considered the transitional potential of the materials. For example, the shiny surface of a steel bench, exposed to weathering elements, could become dull and rusty, loosing its sparkle. We decided to ‘preserve this moment’ and for that reason we have chosen to use galvanized steel which will protect the surface from getting rusted and damaged.

Taking of another element of transformation, we decided to select the concrete as the second sample,providing stability and time conservation. There is, for many, a natural intrigue in guessing the time; when a certain object was made or for how long has been. This comes as a welcome change in such a time of often predictable and generic modern building and architecture. Bricks are able to tell the time on their surface carrying memories through a lifetime, and with the passing of time the changing of shape.