atmospheric video
An atmospheric video, to explore to atitude of the proposed client towards baking. Of it not being cooking, making food, but creating art. Understanding, expressing, sculpting, painting, of growing and telling.
Final Panels
The final A2 panels in the presentation layout, exploring the site, the clients, communicating the concept and design development through sketching and precedents, and the final proposal functional, structural and spatial qualities.
The existing building
The existing building, standing on the plot of the project proposal, was more of a shell, than a complete structure ( which it had been once). We have a red brick front elevation, with a door, a larger gate, three, window openings on the first floor, and a large, proud, but old , rusty iron sign telling the street and the number, all very clear and ordered, strong and well behaved. Following through a small gate, into the parking area of the neighboring building, an architectural practice, towards the side elevation of 50 Hylton Street. The fire exit, colored bright red, 'burns' through, contrasts the green sheet of wines covering the old brick, slowly, innocently bringing it to complete decay. A couple of smashed glass window openings peak through the greenery, unnoticeably.
The main enterance bolted shut, having a plywood sheet for the door, we enter through the blazing red fire exit, where one is caught by the stairs, which spiral up to the 2nd floor, with narrow landings and paths to the next flight of stairs being the only structural element left. Other than the structure of stairs, which must soars through all three levels, the only pronounced walls, which have survived to the time of this site visit are on the ground floor, separating a extremely narrow bathroom space from the rest of the space.
The main enterance bolted shut, having a plywood sheet for the door, we enter through the blazing red fire exit, where one is caught by the stairs, which spiral up to the 2nd floor, with narrow landings and paths to the next flight of stairs being the only structural element left. Other than the structure of stairs, which must soars through all three levels, the only pronounced walls, which have survived to the time of this site visit are on the ground floor, separating a extremely narrow bathroom space from the rest of the space.
50 hylton street, jewelry quater, birmingham, uk, the site
Jewelry Quater has gained its name from the historical development of the area, it being the heart of jewel production in the past couple of centuries in Birmingham, and the UK. The scene is set in red brick, two or three stories tall, double pitched roof buildings, that all share a rhythm, proportion in their overall dimensions, as well as their arched window and door opening placements. Workshop, small shop and residential building functions are represented in the mixture of the area, without the exception of the small loop of Hylton Street. It takes a step aside from the lager treads of streets and junctions, being quiet, but not dead.
50 Hylton Street is in somewhat the center of the area, or at least a selection of points of interest, geographically but not in the junction of routes through the area. The train station is about 10 minutes walk away, the cemetery nearly borders the site and major roads with shops and the museum of the Jewelry Quarter, can almost be seen from the site. But the site does not share the flow of people with these locations.
This project was to be designed in a given building shell, inside a corner in between two other buildings, all answering the same aesthetic and technological principles of the area. The brief did not require the existing structure to be preserved, the elevation could be taken down, changed, but the thought of the area and resonance or contrast with the rhythm of it had to be there.
50 Hylton Street is in somewhat the center of the area, or at least a selection of points of interest, geographically but not in the junction of routes through the area. The train station is about 10 minutes walk away, the cemetery nearly borders the site and major roads with shops and the museum of the Jewelry Quarter, can almost be seen from the site. But the site does not share the flow of people with these locations.
This project was to be designed in a given building shell, inside a corner in between two other buildings, all answering the same aesthetic and technological principles of the area. The brief did not require the existing structure to be preserved, the elevation could be taken down, changed, but the thought of the area and resonance or contrast with the rhythm of it had to be there.