Diploma Portfolio

HugH MCEwEnunit 12

The Aylesbury in Southwark is one of the largest estates in Europe, and dates from an era when one third of Britain’s population lived in council housing. Now, after decades of neglect by the council and the social problems that have gone hand in hand, The Aylesbury will be demolished and doubled in density over the next 20 years. Yet there is still a sense of community on the estate, with 73% of residents turning out to unanimously vote against becoming a housing association in a year that saw just 45% of Londoners vote for the mayor.

In order to maintain and strengthen this community throughout the regeneration, residents need to feel a greater involvement with their local area. The project aims to engender this sense of community in three ways, through activities, politics and architecture.

To enable this, The Aylesbury Council is set up within the boundaries of the estate, using legislation passed in 2007. The town hall that is built for this elected body contains community spaces, games fields and public amenities to provide a place where people can socialise with engage each other. Within The Aylesbury Town Council the residents voting power twinned with the council’s spending power gives more control over the physical development of the estate and promotes interaction with the regeneration process. Lastly, the architecture of the town hall uses certain tactics to engage the population on a civic level identified from the history of town hall building in Britain.

By preserving and increasing the engagement of local residents the project aims to avoid making the mistake of breaking up communities, as the original Aylesbury regeneration failed to do in the 1970s.

town Hall analysis

The physical site, the political landscape and the architectural heritage of town halls are all important to this project, and in turn the project affects all three. I will begin by looking at these three areas as places that The Aylesbury Town Hall may be able to alter in order to create the positive engagement that the building seeks to engender.

The project embeds itself in the continuing history of the redevelopment of the Aylesbury estate, by proposing ways in which the current masterplan may be altered. A new scale of local government is suggested, exemplified by The Aylesbury Council. This builds on the timeline of centralisation and devolution that London has experienced over the years. Finally, through careful analysis of English town halls, certain elements are identified and incorporated into this new civic architecture.

Site Location and Surroundings

Aerial view from above, showing the importance of public space in the estate.

The estate is located near Elephant and Castle in Southwark - the eighth most deprived borough in England.

The estate is home to 7,500 residents, 500 of whom are freeholders.

This is an especially diverse population, with approximately 68% from Black and Minority Ethnic Groups, and 43 languages spoken on the estate.

Over the last 5 years, joblesness and crime have fallen, while sense of community and school results have improved.

Aerial view from the South, showing the size of the buildings.

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Location plan at 1:5000 1. Elephant & Castle2. Heygate Estate3. Aylesbury Estate - “The Aylesbury”4. Altered area of masterplan5. The Aylesbury Town Hall site6. East Street7. Old Kent Road8. Albany Road9. Walworth Road

10. Infants school11. Primary school12. Secondary school13. Church14. Mosque15. Pub16. Tesco17. Burgess Park

Town Hall Locationand Surroundings

The site for the town hall lies between Thurlow Street and Surrey Square Park. Thurlow Street is the main route through the estate and is set to be transformed into a wide, tree lined boulevard as part of the regeneration programme.

In the masterplan it takes space from half of phase five and half of phase six, which are both low density areas of housing within the scheme and will accommodate the building.

View from Surrey Square Park towards the estate

Site plan at 1:750


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1. Thurlow Street2. Surrey Square Park3. The Aylesbury Town Hall site4. Church5. Infants School6. Regeneration phase five7. Regeneration phase six

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The history and future of The Aylesbury

2014 - Masterplan for The Aylesbury (MTA)

2008 - The Aylesbury Action Plan (AAP)

1963 - The Aylesbury Development Area

70 Acres2,500 Homes

7,500 Residents1963 - 1977 Construction

70 Acres4,900 Homes

15,000 Residents2009 - 2032 Construction

A massing study of The Aylesbury to show the original masterplan, the proposed masterplan, and the alterations to this.

A timeline of major events in the history of The Aylesbury explaining how political means have been used to shape The Aylesbury.

2012pop.7,500

2015pop.8,602

2017pop.7,060

2019pop.6,395

2021pop.8,084

2023pop.9,127

2025pop.8,525

2026pop.9,977

2029pop.

12,977

2031pop.

14,873

A timeline of the phased demolition and construction of The Aylesbury and The Aylesbury Town Hall

Phases of the redevelopment


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The Aylesbury Town Hall will be embedded in the current masterplan, rather than re-configuring it.

However the town hall and the self-build houses will begin to exert an influence on the rest of the site, perhaps leading to a more subtle change.

Self Build Housesas part of the altered masterplan

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There are 500 homeowners on The Aylesbury. Under current plans these residents receive unfavourable prices for their homes and are not necessarily able to move back to the site.

To suggest a way of ensuring that these long term residents have a greater effect on the site and are treated fairly, they are given the opportunity to build new houses on the estate.

These houses are intended as extensions of the effect of the town hall’s architecture and must obey by certain planning rules.

Self Build houses are supplied with poured groundslab, and all utilities are routed through the decorative chrome frame.

Self Build houses are sold on a 999 year leasehold with four covenants:

1. The framing system must be left exposed on the exterior faces.

2. Houses must be coloured with at least two contrasting, high contrast patterns.

3. Housebuilders shall be required to provide and maintain one publicly useful space.

4. Houses can only be bought by people who can prove residence in The Aylesbury for five or more years.

In addition the planning department of The Aylesbury Council have a number of design guides:- Pitched roofs are advised- Materials, where possible should be purchased from within the borough- Labour should be sought from within the Aylesbury

A number of 1:1 finishes are demonstrated in The Aylesbury Town Hall Urban Environment Department that can be copied by the self build residents.

1. Four self build house frame with two shared bathrooms and communal parking

2. Three self build house frame with single entrance and allotments

3. Six self build house frame with shared garage and public kiosk

4. Seven self build house frame with viewing deck

Venturi’s Ben Franklin House Museum

Since the house Ben Franklin lived in was demolished, Venturi represented it with a steel outline.

West 8’s Borneo Sporenburg masterplan

Along the waterfront, each parcel of land was bought by an individual person and each house then designed by their own architect.

Elemental Architects’ Iquique development

To deal with a very low budget, half of each house was built, containing the kitchen and bathroom. It was then up to residents to build the other half.


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The change in scale of London’sLocal Government in relation to

The Aylesbury

1889 - Newington Parish

1965 - Southwark Metropolitan Borough

2029 - The Aylesbury Town

A map of London showing the size of the council controlling The Aylesbury in relation to the scale of local government across London.

A timeline of the legislation around local government in London, explaining how the scale of government has been altered.

2012pop.7,500

2015pop.8,602

2017pop.7,060

2019pop.6,395

2021pop.8,084

2023pop.9,127

2025pop.8,525

2026pop.9,977

2029pop.

12,977

2031pop.

14,873

A timeline of the changing number of councillors in The Aylesbury Council.

The Aylesbury Council represents 0.1% of the estate’s population, rounded to the nearest thousand.

Elections for a council seat are held when the population has increased by a thousand, and re-elections for that seat are held once every four years. A by-election is held when the population has fallen by a thousand to establish which councillors should be retained.

The cabinet and mayor are appointed from within the council every May, and councillors must be residents of The Aylesbury.

Growth of The Aylesbury Council

Council

Cabinet

Mayor

Organisational structure of The Aylesbury Council

Indicative calendar and income forThe Aylesbury Council

The rises are due to an increasing number of private houses on the site, while the number of council tenures remains constant.Construction of the town hall would be paid for via an infrastructure levy placed on developers.This income is substantial compared to the £373,000 that Aylesbury Creation currently manages on.

The yearly calendar hinges around May (shown in full) with the election of a new Mayor on the first Thursday.Full council occurs on the penultimate Thursday of each month and each department meets at least once a month.

2012pop.7,500

2015pop.8,602

2017pop.7,060

2019pop.6,395

2021pop.8,084

2023pop.9,127

2025pop.8,525

2026pop.9,977

2029pop.

12,977

2031pop.

14,873

A timeline of the phased construction of The Aylesbury Town Hall

As the council grows it requires new buildings to fulfil the greater range of political activities it engages with.

These in turn supply new sports fields and community spaces for the residents of The Aylesbury.

Phases of town hall construction


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Symbolic elements inThe Aylesbury Town Hall

Urban Environment Department

Scrutiny and Corporate Resources Department

Office for The Mayor of The Aylesbury

Housing Services

Children and Young People’s Service

Culture & Community Services

Office for People & Organisational Development

Many things that a council is responsible for are taken for granted or go unnoticed until needed, therefore a symbol of these functions is suggested for The Aylesbury Town Hall. This totem pole, shown above, symbolises the departments of the council and provides a reminder of the council’s work in the wider community. In a similar way to the Spastic Society’s old collection box, it illustrates where the money from council tax will go, and perhaps makes paying it more bearable and the council’s responsibilities more intelligible.

The seven departmental areas in The Aylesbury Town Hall at 1:400

The use of publicand private space in

The Aylesbury Town Hall

In the Aylesbury Town Hall, there are a range of public spaces and areas for hire. This re-establishes the town hall as a site for citizens to occupy.

The town hall also creates ambiguous spaces that encourage an overlap of the council offices and the public realm, hoping to encourage chance encounters and discussions.

Public and private spaces at 1:400

Weddings inThe Aylesbury Town Hall

b. a. 1. Wedding gate elevation

2. Wedding gate axonometric

3. Wedding Rooma. Bride and groomb. Congregation

The wedding room and gate are examples of public spaces in the town hall used for activities that engender a sense of community within The Aylesbury.

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Council meetings inThe Aylesbury Town Hall

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2. Mayor’s dias axonometric

3. Council Chambera. Public galleryb. Council seating

The council chamber and mayor’s dias are examples of political spaces in the town hall used for change that engenders community within The Aylesbury.

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Appropriation in town halls

There is a history of appropriation in town halls.Town halls appropriate things in three ways.

First I will talk about style, then the other two methods will be discussed.

Town halls take styles and give them new political meanings.

Manchester uses neo-gothic architecture to embed itself in a history of Britain that extends from the middle ages, and thus define itself as uniquely English, despite using a dutch typology.

Hillingdon Civic Centre uses vernacular architecture to symbolise friendliness and approachability, while ensuring that the building felt like part of the suburbia it inhabits.

Town halls take civic elements and use them as symbols for the wider community.

Manchester uses a clock tower to display the town hall to the city. It was then copied by many other town halls, notably Rochdale and Halifax.

Hillingdon town hall uses a reclaimed clock tower on the other hand, using one that was attached to a 1940s building previously on the site.

Town halls take public space and use it to involve the public.

Manchester’s ring corridors create an ambiguous space where the public and private parts of the building overlap.

Hillingdon’s fragmented plan ensures that public space is spread throughout the building, with specific functions to encourage use - such as the wedding photograph area pictured.

Style can be appropriated to display a political message

The Houses of Parliament in London are a good example of style being appropriated by a political building to produce a message through architecture.The building is classical in plan, but is wrapped in a Gothic facade.The plan enables axial movement and expresses the relation between the House of Commons and House of Lords, while the Gothic detailing places the building in a history of English Gothic. This establishes it as an architecture of England.

Using the same style again does not mean the same thing

The appropriation of styles for political ends is made even more apparent when directly opposed political regimes use the same style, but ascribe it with different political messages in relation to their opposing ideologies.The best example of this is the use of stripped back classicism and mid century modernism by both Fascists and Communists. The Casa del Fascio and Palast der Republik illustrate what the cartoonist Osbert Lancaster poked fun at.

Civic symbols inThe Aylesbury Town Hall

To present themselves to the city at a civic scale, town halls use certain architectural elements.

These symbols come to represent the town that citizens live in, and are useful to create a cohesion, much like football shirts or flags.

The clock tower at 1:100

The balloon at 1:100

After the death of Queen Elizabeth in 2021

During the England World Cup in 2026

There is a long history of English town halls reclaiming architectural styles and imbuing them with new political meanings. To utilise this tradition in order to achieve its aim of engaging residents, The Aylesbury Town Hall uses pop aesthetics and vernacular patterning to represent the common ownership and multiculturalism of The Aylesbury. This new style, called Localism Googie, is created for our contemporary culture and its heightened sense of individual worth, from the cult of celebrity to the proliferation of our online presence.

The architecture aims to be iconic, but at the same time personal. This is achieved by selecting symbolic elements from existing civic architectures, such as municipal heraldry, the public corridor and the clock tower. Since pop architecture always works from existing images of architecture, these elements are reclaimed along with certain 70s architectures that were the first to discuss pop. Established modes of civic architecture are therefore juxtaposed with low architecture, whilst the reclaiming tactics of town halls are twinned with those of pop architecture.

In a wider context, the engagement that this town hall hopes to engender is a test bed for the rest of London. With the localism bill set to come into force shortly and the swing of the pendulum back towards decentralisation, methods are needed to encourage the grass roots public communication and cohesion that these policies require for success. The scale of local government suggested by The Aylesbury Town Hall could propagate across London, to enable residents across the capital to deal with the large scale regeneration we will see in response to housing needs.

town Hall ElEMEnts

I began the year by examining the possibility of creating an altermodern architecture based on the discussions raised from Nicolas Bourriaud’s Tate Triennial in 2009. The curated eclecticism that this architecture suggested has come to form the pop architecture, or Localism Googie, of The Aylesbury Town Hall. This curated eclecticism uses a number of tactics, the most notable being collage and juxtaposition in order to re-claim vernacular forms and material tendencies.

This style uses the reclaiming tendencies of pop architecture to be able to juxtapose high and low architecture. This Localism Googie is placed as a style that has been claimed by the town hall to suggest communal ownership and diversity. Thus the appropriation of elements in this town hall are embedded both in the tradition of other town halls as described in the first chapter, and the tradition of pop architecture described in this chapter. This hopes to create a populist style with a civic presence, while removing the aloofness of much civic architecture.

The use of this architectural style places it as a critique of current civic architectures. The false symbolism of many civic architectures reduces them to images of democracy, since they neither provide public space for citizens, nor use established modes of civic representation.

Models of the office space of the Children and Young People’s Service at 1:50

The reclaiming tactics of pop architecture are summarised in this set of models. They demonstrate the use of appropriated forms juxtaposed with patterns and changes in scale, the use of vernacular material patterning created from novel materials and the reclamation of 70s architectures.

1. Department Plan

2. Site Plan

3. Beetroot stained sandbag wall, laid in traditional bond. These are much larger than usual sandbags, to be able to play against conceptions of scale.

4. Children’s Networks Office - Linoleum covered office with sandblasted metal edging. The house-like form of this office is made to look small through large detailing and an oversize door, giving it a shed like, domestic quality.

5. Youth Services Office - Polyurethane office with brushed metal edging. This office reclaims the form of Clorindo Testa’s 70’s architecture, but girdles it with chrome.

6. Upholstered “Dragons Tooth” and Polyvinyl chairs. These reclaim military and child-like forms respectively, putting them to work as specific items in this architecture by changing their materiality.

The use of architectural projects as a critique of other forms of architecture is clear in Archizoom’s work, and a slightly less antagonistic element of this has informed my work.

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Serlio’s suggestion of different perspectival stage sets for comedies and tragedies suggests a way that architecture can affect the social interaction that occurs around it. This reading cannot be absolute, however, and so the ambiguity of scale and inherent duplicity of perspectival spaces is used in the Children and Young People’s Service.

The clash of the constant patterning of the floor and roof with the perception altering corridor illustrates how pattern and scale can be used to interrogate vernacular forms for their architectural properties, rather than being copies.

1. Department Plan

2. Site Plan

3. Perspective drawing in direction of forced perspective. Note the large bricks in foreground and small bricks in background.

4. Infinite focal length photograph in direction of forced perspective. Note blue sandbags in background and red sandbags in foreground.

5. Perspective drawing in direction of negated perspective. Note the small bricks in foreground and large bricks in background.

6. Infinite focal length photograph in direction of negated perspective. Note blue sandbags in foreground and red sandbags in background.

Models of the corridor of the Children and Young People’s Service at 1:50

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Ettore Sottass’ work suggests a bold formalism and truth to fake materials that is taken up in my own work. His use of formica, bright colours and contrasting patterns to cover his objects articulates their differences, even though the forms may be simple.

The following 1:1 pieces are parts of the building that are intended to show possible ways of achieving the stipulations of the planning guidelines for the self-build houses.

1. Department Plan

2. Site Plan

3. Elevation photograph

4. Chrome edging. This durable finish protects the edge of the various materials used in the building, therefore adding longevity.

5. Yellow painted Artex. The Artex is shaped with three different textures, giving three finishes. The wall is then painted with three different tones of yellow. The textures pick up light in different ways, while the colour provides a second pattern system that overlays the texture.

6. Black anti-fly-poster paint on plaster moulding. The black paint provides a high contrast finish with the rest of the wall. Again the texture is important and this gives a changing surface that expresses the plaster moulding beneath.

A 1:1 section of wall from the Planning Office in the Urban Environment Department

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Gaetano Pesce’s work with plastics, both in architecture and design suggested ways to create a materiality that represented everyday materials in novel ways. By taking the prosaic and elevating it using architectural motifs such as bonding, a pop approach to materials is developed.

Since they are all located in the planning department, many people who are dealing with new buildings would see the finishes and construction methods.

1. Department Plan

2. Site Plan

3. Elevation photograph

4. Turmeric stained hessian sacks filled with expanded polystyrene balls. This wall provides a dividing wall within the planning office of the town hall. They are light but insulate against noise.

5. Polyurethane expanding foam, used as mortar. The jointing of the re-appropriated sandbags places them in an architectural vernacular of materials. It also expresses the wall more fully and makes it more stable.

A 1:1 section of wall from the Planning Office in the Urban Environment Department

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A 1:1 section of floor from the Planning Office in the Urban Environment Department

At the same time, as 1:1 pieces they show how the materiality of the town hall itself may be achieved.

1. Department Plan

2. Site Plan

3. Plan photograph

4. Wood effect gloss formica. The grain of materials is used as a second layer of patterning. The regular, manufactured texture of the wood effect formica enables the juxtaposition of the direction of one grain against another.

5. Dapple effect matt formica. The inlaid formica elements are laser cut and then adhered to an MDF backing to be laid.

The irregular and overlapping use of pattern in Enric Miralles’ plans informed both the placing and presentation of decoration in my work. The feeling that the patterning is independent of the form and clashes with other elements was interpreted in certain parts of the building and in the 1:1 pieces themselves.

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Birds Eye Axonom

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Birds Eye Axonom

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1. Location plan

2. Plan at 1:200

3. Birds eye exterior axonometric

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hatch roofc. Finance office d. Legal office e. C

ustomer services office

f. Performance office

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h. Entrance ramp

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Flat Worm

Axonom

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1. Location plan

2. Plan at 1:200

3. Flat birds eye axonometric

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a. Peaked roof over podium

of the consultation hallb. R

oman brick archw

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purple felt yurtf. C

abin containing dem

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j. Peaked roof over podium

of the consultation hallk. C

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2. Plan at 1:200

3. Flat birds eye exterior axonom

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a. Rooflights and stack

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A perspective studyof the Council Chamber,

clock tower and Scrutiny and Corporate Resources Department

A perspective studyof the Council Chamber,

clock tower and Scrutiny and Corporate Resources Department

By using appropriated architecture and design, but ascribing it new meanings, Matthew Darbyshire’s work seeks to engage viewers while at the same time subverting the assumed classlessness and statelessness of the objects. Within my own work, ascribing a new civic meaning to pop architecture is set as a critique of current civic architecture.

The council chamber is accessible directly from the street and has a large public gallery at eye level with the councillors.

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3. T A Greeves’ Monument to the good old days of architecture was used for its radical composition

4. Keya. Glass reinforced plastic wing, after Caravaggiob. Formica covered office c. Thatch roofd. Chrome edginge. GRP and steel frame clock towerf. Performance office g. Customer services officeh. Legal officei. Finance officej. Council Chamber, after Architecture Principe

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A perspective studyof the Futsal pitch and the Office for People &

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The tactic of appropriation is a key element of both town halls and pop architecture. Therefore its use in this architecture is as a continuation of these themes.

A perspective studyof the Futsal pitch and the Office for People &

Organisational Development

The futsal pitch is one of many activities fields around the town hall. This one is for the reduced scale game of football called futsal. In the background sit other imported architectures.

1. Isovist

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3. The Foyer perspective by Caruso St John showed how to use a directed perspective.

4. Keya. Dark red stained square grooved diamond dust finish concrete, painted light red on the top of groovesb. Gold solar filter glass in a yellow powder coated aluminium framec. Flint nodules laid in brown stained mortard. Wooden effect formicae. Roman brick archwayf. Clock tower and Scrutiny and Corporate Resources Department in backgroundg. Resin impregnated purple felt yurt, after Gaetano Pesceh. Dark blue stained square grooved diamond dust finish concrete, painted light blue on top of the groovesi. Futsal pitch

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A perspective studyof the canteen and

the entrance to records

A perspective studyof the canteen and

the entrance to records

The Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrc examines the daily requirements of postcolonial and postnational societies and the vernacular of the architecture that fulfils these social needs. The use of architecture as a socially critical tool is very important in my own work.

The canteen is where the idea of architecture as a service is most apparent and as a public space it encourages the intermingling of staff and the public.

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3. Carlo Crivelli’s Annunciation with St Emidius contained a broad range of spatial explorations.

4. Keya. Possible new build as part of regenerationb. Flowerpotc. Clock towerd. Concrete Corbusian brise soleil e. Kitchenf. Curtaing. Sandbag handrailh. Climbing walli. Entrance to archivej. Public seatingk. Canteen buildingl. Hot dog stand

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A perspective studyof the toilets and the entranceto the planning office of the


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3. Jacopo Pontormo’s Joseph in Egypt creates spatial depth by repetition of common elements.

4. Keya. Yellow Stolit K 6mm render wall in stipple effectb. Public toilet (Portaloo, or similar)c. Ineffective barrier to public movementd. CHP chimneye. Tensile ETFE roof with black infill panelsf. Concrete mastg. Teracotta Stairs to the Urban Environment Department, after Alfred Waterhouseh. Door to security office

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Caulfield’s paintings are critical of our vapid lives, but at the same time absolutely fascinated by them. His bold composition and juxtaposition of details using traditionally painterly methods brings this criticism to life. In the town hall his compositional effects are used to re-imagine a civic architecture by contrasting high architecture with low architecture.

Using elements of established civic architecture in my own work, but challenging their parochialism through pop materiality and colours, twinned with vernacular forms and patterns the building seeks to celebrate and re-create a common civic architecture.

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A perspective studyof the public hall, the Torball pitch

and the Office for Mayor of The Aylesbury

1. Isovist

2. Location plan

3. Piero della Francesca’s The Flagellation puts arresting but meaningless objects in the foreground, and draws the eye into the action.

4. Keya. Concrete “dragons teeth”b. Smile Plastics’ dapple plastic enfiladesc. Oversize wood effect linoleum covered booths, mounted on a wooden frame on castersd. Tiled floor laid into linoleum e. Paolo Uccello’s torus designf. Ramp to Urban Environment Department,g. artex textured and painted wall with plaster mouldingh. Polystyrene floats held by fishing wire with rooflights abovei. Concrete retaining walls with brick roundel basesj. 7.5 tonne hoistk. 5 tonne hoistl. 2.5 tonne hoistm. Torball pitchn. Mayor’s office

A perspective studyof the public hall, the Torball pitch

and the Office for Mayor of The Aylesbury

Euan Uglow’s paintings depict space in the most meticulous way and use patterned floors walls and ceilings to both describe and juxtapose with contorted fleshy forms. Patterning is used in a similar way in the town hall, to clash with forms in order to present them anew.

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A perspective study of the Wedding Room

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3. Theatro Olympico stage set by Scamozzi gives the eye multiple avenues to explore.

4. Keya. Metal detectorb. Padded leather effect floor c. Adult services office, after Loosd. GRP column, after Hadid e. Door to Registryf. Roman mosaic floor, after Caracallag. Crash barrierh. Brick column, after Cheomseongdaei. Stairs to Recreational services, after Masaccioj. Stage set stonework, after Stirlingk. Stairs to Adult learning and culture, after Zumthor

A perspective study of the Wedding Room

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town Hall Drawings

Location planat 1:200

1.0 Scrutiny and Corporate Resources Department 1.1 Entrance ramp 1.2 Reception 1.3 Stairs to finance office 1.4 Stairs to legal office 1.5 Stairs to customer services office 1.6 Stairs to performance office 1.7 Council chamber 1.8 Public seating

2.0 Urban Environment Department 2.01 Entrance ramp 2.02 Revolving door 2.03 Architects office 2.04 Engineers office 2.05 Planning consultation 2.06 Planning control office 2.07 Regeneration front of house 2.08 Regeneration interview room 2.09 Regeneration 2.10 Safer and stronger communities 2.11 Frontline Services

3.0 Office for People & Organisational Development 3.1 Cabin containing HR (below) 3.2 Cabin containing democracy office (above) 3.3 Cabin containing occasional accommodation 3.4 Cabin containing communications office (above) 3.5 Consultation hall 3.6 Mayor’s office 3.7 Mayor’s PA

4.0 Housing Services 4.1 Booth containing lettings office 4.2 Booth containing homelessness office 4.3 Booth containing housing supply office 4.4 Booth containing housing registration office

5.0 Children and Young People’s Service 5.1 Children and families 5.2 Children’s networks 5.3 School standards 5.4 School inclusion 5.5 Youth services 5.6 Interview room

6.0 Culture & Community Services 6.1 Recreational services 6.2 Adult services 6.3 Adult learning and culture 6.4 Registry (below) 6.5 Archive

7.00 Public amenities 7.01 Carpark with amphitheatre above 7.02 Clock tower 7.03 Driveway 7.04 Toilet 7.05 CHP plant 7.06 Badminton/Short Tennis court 7.07 Bike store 7.08 Public hall 7.09 Booth 7.10 Goalball pitch 7.11 Futsal pitch (on roof) 7.12 Ice cream kiosk 7.13 Tea Room 7.14 Wedding gate 7.15 Running track (underground) 7.16 Totem pole 7.17 Table tennis table 7.18 Kitchen (Canteen below) 7.19 Climbing wall 7.20 Public seating 7.21 Male changing 7.22 Female changing 7.23 Wedding hall

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Plan and elevation of the Council Chamber, clock tower and Scrutiny and Corporate

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Plan and elevation of the Wedding Room, totem pole and Culture &

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Plan and elevation of the Consultation Hall and Office for People &

Organisational Development at 1:200

Elevation bblooking from North West

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Elevation bb

a. Tea roomb. Archive and running trackc. Children and Young People’s Serviced. Wedding room and Culture & Community Services e. Totem polef. Entrance to public hallg. Balloonh. Inflatable floodlights for sports pitchesi. Office for People & Organisational Developmentj. Underground carpark with amphitheatre abovek. Clock towerl. Scrutiny and Corporate Resources Departmentm. Urban Environment Department architects officen. Driveway

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Plan and elevation of the Urban Environment Department at 1:200

Plan and elevation of Housing Services, the public hall and canteen at 1:200

Plan colour study of the public hallat 1:100

Elevation cclooking from South West

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1. The Aylesbury redevelopment

2. Self Build houses

a. Tea roomb. Clock towerc. Scrutiny and Corporate Resources Departmentd. Inflatable light over sports pitche. Urban Environment Department architects and planners officef. Urban Environment Department regeneration officeg. Wedding room and Culture & Community Services h. Public halli. Canteen

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a. Urban Environment Department architects and planners officeb. Public toiletc. Urban Environment Department regeneration front of housed. Clock towere. Ramp to public hallf. Housing servicesg. Public hallh. Mayor’s officei. Children and Young People’s Servicej. Adult servicesk. Wedding hall

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Documents

Diploma Portfolio