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Rachael Davidson
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The Sun Store ® Appreciating London’s Invisible Workers
The project proposes a new experiential vision for the City; through the development of a network of lighting installations radiating from a central Sun Store ® designed for London’s nocturnal population.
The network involves a number of scaled installations aimed at improving the working life of the City’s Nightworkers. For example, the phone [light] box
Could phone boxes not be transformed into artificial daylight stations? Just 15 minutes of artificial daylight during the night has been shown to improve alertness dramatically. Bus stops and deserted alleyways also provide opportunities for improved to lighting conditions linked to nocturnal cycles.
The project further appreciates London’s nocturnal beings by providing a place for them any-time, the Sun Store ®
A place to for everyone regardless of time
There it is always time for breakfast or dinner, a stroll in the sunshine or an afternoon nap
A place to socialise
A place to eat
A place for stimulation
A place for rest
A place for health
The project proposes a physiological architecture which acts on space by transforming its electro-magnetic make-up, stimulating and suppressing the body’s natural rhythms. The scheme aims to provide parallel environments which are out of sync with normal solar, biological and social time.
The spaces shall be defined climatically by light by bringing day and night into visible space.
But these spaces are not just simulated artificial environments but interpretations of the particularities of daytime – the phenomenology of daytime.
“The goal is to come up with an architecture free of formal and functional predeterminations, a de-programmed architecture that is open to variations of seasons and weather conditions, day / night transitions, the passage of time, and the appearance of novel, functions and unexpected forms.”
[Phillipe Rahm]
Grant Shepherd
Project Name: The Orchid Florist: Amongst the Decay
Project Description:
The nature of this project looks to understand the city as a gathering of derelict moments both seen and concealed as a clash between the synthetic and the natural world of architecture. The clear focus of this project is positioned on a particular site, located in London’s north district; no147 Hackney road is provoked by a derelict public house named ‘The Flying Skud’. The proximities of time, weather and pollution revealed and infused the natural and ecological elements which enforce the architectural conditions linked to the building derelict structure. Many of the drawings in this study relate to the infection nature of the decay and the direct problem of fading communal buildings. Amongst the derelict: a new sterile orchid florist grows encompassing a communal and economical connection to local parties. The building propagates, cultivates and educates the importance to produce spaces that enable reuse, recycle and regeneration. The decadent nature of the internal structure elevates and gentrifies the buildings existing dilapidated exterior. Prompting further urban filters to grow between the decay, once used communal spaces like the public house.
