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A M A N U F A C T U R E D L A N D S C A P E S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N S l a t e Q u a r r y i n g - F r o m t h e U n r e f i n e d t o t h e R e f i n e d

3rd Year Architectural Design: Explorations | Unit 1 - Drawing Energy Kerrera - Lisa Moff i tt

SLATE QUARRYING INVESTIGATION

[ L A N G U A G E O F C U L T I V A T I O N ]

P R E C E N D E N T S T U D Y . W H A T T Y P E O F A R C H I T E C T U R E D O O U R P R O G R A M S R E Q U I R E ?

L A N S C A P EM A C H I N E R Y+ B U I L D I N G

S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - A d d i t i o n a l B o o k l e t s

[Booklet 1: Slate Quarrying Investigation] Concertina documenting additional information gathered and drawings made during cultivation research and fieldwork

[Booklet 2: Quarrying/Processing/Dwelling Exploration]Trace booklet documenting Kerrera site strategy infrastructural plans: exploring the different site arrangements for Quarrying, Processing and Dwelling.

[Booklet 3: Language of Cultivation ]Precedent study concertina documenting thought processes regarding the different languages of our architecture

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C O N T E N T S

Slate Quarr ying Invest igation: A Stratigraphic ExposureCultivation DrawingRefer to Booklet 1 Fieldwork: A Human MeasureIntroducing KerreraCultivation Drawings SitedRefer to Booklet 2

Site Strategy: An Axis of Ref inementProject Statement Refer to Booklet 3

Sustainabi l i t y : An Evolving LandscapeWaste Tip Design

Machine Storage: Moments of Rest Amongst a Blurr y LandscapeRegistering Movement A Controlled Space

Slate Processing: From the Unref ined to the Ref inedArtificial Labour - A Quarried SpaceHuman Labour - A Refining SpacePackaging - A Detached Space

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[ C h a p t e r 2 ]

[ C h a p t e r 3 ]

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[CHAPTER 1]

S l a t e Q u a r r y i n g I n v e s t i g a t i o n : A S t r a t i g r a p h i c E x p o s u r e

S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - C u l t i v a t i o n D r a w i n g S I Z E S A N D S PA C E S - A Sequence of S late Quarr ying | 7

S I Z E S A N D S PA C E S - Machiner y Movement Plan | Scale 1 .200 | 9S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - C u l t i v a t i o n D r a w i n g

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[CHAPTER 2]

F i e l d w o r k : A H u m a n M e a s u r e

I S L A N D O F K E R R E R A

WEATHER - COLD, CUTTING, INTENSE, FLUCTUATING, UNPREDICTABLE | LANDSCAPE: TIRING, HEAVY, UNYIELDING

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V I S I T I N G K E R E R R A - Using a Human Measure to guage topographies | 11S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - I n t r o d u c i n g K e r r e r a

Slate Seam Contours and Site Locations Footpath/Road Network around the Island

S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - C u l t i v a t i o n D r a w i n g S i t e d

GPS Drawing Showing Routes Taken

C I R C U L AT I N G T H E S I T E | S I T E P L A N S | S C A L E 1.25000 | 13

Amalgamation of Routes

S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - C u l t i v a t i o n D r a w i n g S i t e d a n d B u i l t C H O S E N S I T E A R R A N G E M E N T Quarr ying-Production-D well ing| Required Infrastructural Plan| 15

[CHAPTER 3]

S i t e S t r a t e g y : A n A x i s o f R e f i n e m e n t

S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - S i t e S t r a t e g y

Quarry 300 m2

Waste Tip 100 m2

Machinery Storage 50 m2

Factory / Workshop 60 m2

Port

Machines

Axial connections / paths

L A N D S C A P E S T R AT E G Y P L A N N I N G M O D E L S | 17


Chosen Strategy: Idea of arranging the program according to chronological order of processing and progressive refinement of slate.

Waste Tip

Quarry

Machine Storage

Slate Processing Slate Storage

Port

CONCEPTUAL PLAN | A Blurr y landscape: A Moving Point to Fixed Point | 19


SUSANNA BOREHAM | MARIA E S T E B A N - P r o j e c t S t a t e m e n t

PROJECT STATEMENT

Our project aim is to reintroduce the cultivation of slate quarry-ing on Kerrera which will provide roofing tiles for Kerrera and be exported to Oban and distributed to the surrounding area.

Slate quarrying is usually associated with an in-vasive scale, however our aim is to introduce a more human and tactile experience to the process.

Our aim is to pursue an approach that overcomes the false separation between architecture and landscape. Thus the site and building strategy are one and the same.

We intent to create a landscape and buildings which share the same agenda and will allow them to perform as linked interactive sys-tems that heal the environment. Rather than opposing space and matter, architecture and landscape will be seen as an accumulation of independent processes which can be as complex as any machine.

We will consider the hierarchy of the process of quarrying: the refinement of the stone as it goes through the different stages to create an architectural language that expresses this.

AXIS OF REFINEMENT - Binar y Terms | 23

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S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - S i t e S t r a t e g y : A n A x i s o f R e f i n e m e n t I N I T I A L S I T E P L A N | S C A L E 1.500 | N < | 25cones of vision towards sites of interest in the proximity

S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - S i t e S t r a t e g y : A n A x i s o f R e f i n e m e n t

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I N I T I A L S I T E S T R AT E G Y M O D E L | S C A L E 1:200 | 27

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S U S A N N A B O R E H A M | M A R I A E S T E B A N - S i t e S t r a t e g y : A n A x i s o f R e f i n e m e n t F I N A L S I T E S T R AT E G Y M O D E L | S C A L E 1.200 | 29

[CHAPTER 4]

S u s t a i n a b i l i t y : A n E v o l v i n g L a n d s c a p e

SUSANNA BOREHAM | MARIA E S T E B A N - Sustainability: A Productive Landscape

Sustainability in adjectives:

productiveflux

resilientshifting

anticipating active

We can think of designing ‘sustainably’ as designing strategically, responsibly and responsively in a way that is highly attuned to prevailing social, financial, and physical context .

-Excerpts from Handout 14, Lisa Moffitt

Social Sustainability Providing value to the community | Offering cultural value - A human axis.

Economic Sustainability An architecture worth having | Creating an economy from the land.

Environmental Sustaibility Waste Management for building. Refining the waste as means of cre-ating an experiential architecture.

READINGS ON WASTE AS ARCHITECTURE| 31

Topographical junction by waste:

“…recent changes to the topography [ of the slate islands]have been caused by slate quarrying itself, islands have been joined by waste tips….”

- Walsh, J . Scottish Slate Quarries pg. 27 Crown copyright Edinburgh 2000.

Published by Historic Scotland

Waste as raw material for construction

“At present the metabolism of urban areas is a linear system with resources coming in at one end and wastes being produced at the other. Increasing urban sustain-ability implies the transformation of many of these linear systems into circular systems whereby waste outputs provide the raw materials for resource inputs.”

- Rudlin and Falk, 1999. The Sustainable Urban Neighborhood Architectural Press

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Negative Spaces: quarr ying as a continuous process of extract ion and reposit ioning

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SUSANNA BOREHAM | MARIA E S T E B A N - Sustainability: Waste Tip Design MODEL 1.100| 35

Waste material wi l l be deposited to create experiences for the publ ic by enclosing and exposing areas in the landscape within the axis . The more quarried the land becomes , the more extreme these experiences are .

SUSANNA BOREHAM | MARIA E S T E B A N - Sustainability: Waste Tip Design PLAN - Enclosure and exposure within the waste t ip | VIEW - Amongst the waste t ip | 37

[CHAPTER 5]

M a c h i n e S t o r a g e : M o m e n t s o f R e s t A m o n g s t a B l u r r y L a n d s c a p e

S U S A N N A B O R E H A M - R e g i s t e r i n g M o v e m e n t G R O U N D F L O O R P L A N | S C A L E 1.200 | < N | 49

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Machine Storage Shed 1: Static Space1. Space for JCB excavator 8014 CTS 2. Space for 37 kw Diamond Wire cutting machine3. Entrance into concrete space

Quarry Workers Space Ground Floor: Cleansing space 4. External entrance from quarry side5. Entrance space for removal of boots/bulky clothing6. Toilet7. Showers x28. Toilet9. Stairs to upper floor 10. External entrance from axis side

Machine Storage Shed 2: Space for Fine movements 11: Entrance into concrete space12: Service pipes for showers/toilets 13: Space for JCB excavator 8065 RTS

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Quarry Workers space Upper Floor: Slumber Space2. Stair up to first floor3. Kitchen/bar area4. Seating pocket space

Machine Storage Shed 2: Fine movements 5: Small overhead crane allows servicing of machines

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S U S A N N A B O R E H A M - A C o n t r o l l e d S p a c e

Concrete space intersects with roof to let in light

public circulation, route from axis

lift shaft into quarry quarry worker route from quarry via vehicles

R O O F P L A N S C A L E 1.200| A N D C I R C U L AT I O N D I A G R A M S | 57

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[CHAPTER 6]

S l a t e P r o c e s s i n g : F r o m t h e U n r e f i n e d t o t h e R e f i n e d

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CONCEPTUAL PLANS | 61

The refinement of the stone as it goes through the different stages calls for an architecture that responds to its hierarchical processing.

A Process of Ref inement - From the Raw Material to the Final Product Negative Spaces - Subtraction | Addit ion

MARIA E S T E B A N - Development work

Connecting Spaces - Studies

SCANS FROM SKETCHBOOK | 63

[ In]bet ween Landscape and Bui lding - Axonometric and Perspective Views

MARIA E S T E B A N - Development work

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INITIAL PLAN - SCALE 1.200 | SECTION A A - SCALE 1.200 | 65

MARIA E S T E B A N - Development work INITIAL SECTION B B | SCALE 1.100 | 67

MARIA E S T E B A N - Relating to topographyTopographical Studies


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A R T I F I C I A L L A B O U R - A Quarried SpaceRough, Threatening, Dark.

A QUARRIED TUNNEL - View of the Publ ic Corridor with openings to machiner y | 71

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A Negative Space : A topographical [sub]traction

By extracting the stone from the mountain the quarrymen are in fact introducing space into the interior

1 - Excavation with JCBs

PLANS - Excavation Process | SCALE 1.100 | N^ | 73

2 - Excavation of publ ic corridor with diamond wire cutt ing machine with staight and clean cuts

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FLOOR PLAN | Scale 1 .100 | 75


1 - Exfol iat ion and washing of s late 2 - Al inment

DRAWING ENERGY - Machiner y Movements | 77

3 - Cutt ing 4 - Transportation to human labour


Waste s late creates a new topography on the landscape

Steel beam for structural support

Chimeny for venti lat ion

Openings in the roof to al low l ight in the publ ic walkway

Steel and glass box - transportation to human labour

Water pipes

SECTION A A - SCALE 1.100 | 79

H U M A N L A B O U R - A Ref ining SpaceAn [In]between Area

SECTION B B - SCALE 1.100 | 81

MARIA E S T E B A N - Human Labour [A refining space] FLOOR PLAN - showing human movement | SCALE 1:100 | 83

1- Publ ic Walkway with views to workers 2- Privante entrance to bui lding3- Double glazed space 4- Seats for workers - showing the movement of human labour5- Private bridge to Social Area6 - Social Space7 - Toi lets

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STRUCTURAL DETAIL - Slate t i les attached to hooks on a steel framework | SCALE 1.20 | 85

Init ial Sketch - A Suspended Bui lding [hovering over the landscape as i f a different entity to the mountain]

MARIA E S T E B A N - Packaging [A detached space]Roof PlanFloor Plan

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SUSANNA BOREHAM | MARIA E S T E B A N SECTION THROUGH THE AXIS | SCALE 1.500 | 89

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