The plaster casting continues.
Many thanks to Mel and Sarah for their help!
Archive for the ‘Provisional Construction’ Category
Plaster of paris anyone?
Posted in Making, Provisional Construction on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Casting Spital Hill
Posted in Making, Provisional Construction on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The extrodinarily heavy site model (this section has used approximately 20kg of plaster of paris) is beginning to take shape. The slice through the lower part of the model is the path of ‘Fiery Jack’s Tunnel’ which runs from the site of the former Wicker station to the former Bridgehouses station. The section photographed is one of [...]
Life, Death, and Provisional Construction
Posted in Provisional Construction on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Provisional: existing for the present
but open to the future
and aware of the past
Provisional construction can be designing with an awareness of temporality and the possibility of change in use, appearance and strategy. A design for a construction is not something that becomes fixed in time. Like a map is like a snapshot, in reality an [...]
a longwinded statement of provisional construction
Posted in Provisional Construction on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thinking about life, death, health and provisional construction I started drawing a timeline of healthcare in Spital Hill, Sheffield, England and the World. I think this is going to be something that I continue as I go along - a bit of a provisional construction perhaps.
Guerrilla Cinema and Russian Club
Posted in Provisional Construction on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On a cold Friday night it seemed like a perfect opportunity for a provisional construction in Sheffield. How would people react to our cinema?
We projected Polish film ‘Man of Marble’ onto the facades of various buildings in Sheffield, which attracted attention from random passers-by, the manager of Varsity, Sheffield parking services, the owner of a [...]
