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INTRODUCTION

INSPIRATION

THE PROCESS OF MAKING

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT

CAD DRAWINGS

MODEL

REMAKING HACKNEY WICK

THE PROCESS OF MAKING

CAD DRAWINGS

DESIGN PROPOSAL

INTRODUCTIONHackney Wick is an area in development. An important industrial area of London in the 18th and 19th centuries. The massive industry development contributed to Hackney’s decline in 1879. It was seen as “a district of 6,000 people who had sunk to the lowest depths, and it became notorious for its jerry- built housing”. After years of stagnation Hackney Wick has now been chosen to be the newest big development in the city of London looking to be the home of Olympic Games of 2012. The regeneration of the area brought artists and designers to the Hackney Wick were studios are being set up bringing a new cultural and creative interest to the area.

We visited the site on the 9th October 2014 to survey the area where our next interior architecture project will take place.

The first half of the project will help us understand the site and will inform the design in the second half.

INTRODUCTION

Stoke-On-Trent

London

Hackney Wick

LOCATION

The project is located in Hackney Wick.The brief challanged me to create a suitable project for the

community, having in the existing boundaries both physical and psychological in the current situation.

CLAY

A universal component used in preparing ceramics owing to its extraordinary facility of transformation through moulding and hardening processes.Different classifications are given to the manufacture of ceramic depending on its coverings colour. Red-body clays are characterised by their high iron content, low melting temperature, and moderate plasticity, whilst white-body clays are more plastic and have no colouring oxides.

GEOLOGICAL SETTING

“The area is mainly underlain by silty clay of the London Clay Formation of Eocene age.”

In www.bgs.ac.uk

The geological conditions of the site are favourable to the making of clay, as the banks and the underlain terrain is composed of silty clay that can be dug and used to produce clay in order to make ceramic pieces.

INSPIRATIONJustin Plunkett’s illustration was the starting point for my conceptual proposal and model.The combination and overlapping of different components and materials that give this immaginary building its character, relfect the individuality of the many people involved in its contructionas well as the power of community.

The yard house was a great reference in the sense that had both functionality and materiality within the same building from where I could base myself.

The ceramic furniture connectors made by Ornella Stocco representend the spatial qualities I wanted to bring into the space.

CERAMIC PIECES

Initial research on different purposes of ceramic pieces produced

Decorative

FunctionalArchitectural

The initial models were a very important step towards unlocking my project’s brief and purpose. From these conceptual models I decided to make my own tiles with different textures and glazes.

INSPIRATION

THE PROCESS OF MAKING

Tools for processing clay

The process of casting

Casting is one of the processes of creating ceramic pieces.It is one of the most common

and is the one used in the very first lesson when enrolling in

our center.

WELCOME TO RE MAKING Hackney Wick

Be a part of it!

Dig the clay

Sieve it

Stir it well

Achieve great texture

Choose your pattern

Trim the edges

Bisque fire

Choose your glazing

Make the mixture

Sieve it well

Apply the glaze

Glaze fire

Hang your tile!

THE PROCESS OF MAKING

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT

These furniture connectors represent all the connections existing within the project. The reconnection of the people with the land and the river, the connection of Hackney Wick community, the connection between past, present and future.

CENTRAL KILN

02 MODEL

EXPLODED ISOMETRIC AND MATERIALS

ACTIVITIESGROUND AND FIRST FLOORS

CAD DRAWINGS

VISUALS

DETAILS

FINAL PANEL

GROUND FLOOR ACTIVITIES

FIRST FLOOR ACTIVITIES

WORKSHOP VISUAL - PROCESSING CLAY

EXTERIOR VISUAL

WORKSHOP VISUAL - PROCESSING CLAY

RESTAURANT VISUAL

EXTERIOR VISUAL WORKSHOP VISUAL - GLAZING LAB