Sketches. Shipping Containers+Bishopsgate Goodsyard. For second semester we are working with a charity to design something which will house one of their services directed at the homeless population of London. I chose the charity Crisis and decided to create something that acts as the “next step” to one of their services. Crisis offers a lot of courses aimed at helping people who have hit a rough patch in their lives learn skills and trades so they can get positively re-integrated into society and a few of these courses are directed at the food-services industry where they teach their students everything from food safety, cooking, how to work in front of house and kitchen and they do this through classrooms and then take them through their Skylight Cafe for hands-on experience. The Skylight Cafe is a small cafe in east London run but formerly homeless during the day serving small snacks, sandwiches and tea/coffee. My proposal was to create the next step where they could make a career out of the skills they learn at the cafe and progress towards a career in the culinary field. I proposed a large training kitchen where those who took courses in their culinary program can treain to be Chefs and a restaurant where those trained in wait staff can learn and work. Both of these facilities will be nestled in some of the listed arches that are existing features of our site (Bishopsgate Goods Yard in Shoreditch) and which we were asked to incorporate into our design. One thing i’ve always loved about architecture is how some architects are able to play with “new” and “old” so well. What i mean by this is how 100year old churches, factories, etc can be renovated to create a completely new experience yet hold so much of its old character. I wanted to do something a little similar in the sense that i mix the remaining listed arches with something new and industrial, a shipping container. I tried a few different approaches on using the shipping containers but keeping them flat and how they were “meant” to sit seemed very boring so i thought I’d turn them on their ends and pretend they were pins and the arches was the pin cushion. This ended up getting really good feedback because the containers on their end could now serve many purposes. Some could cut through the arch ceilings and act as giant light cannons, others could be lit from the inside and shoot beams of light out added to the general effect of seeing a couple dozen of these 12m long containers on their end and attract people into the site. Anyways, more pics will be uploaded soon. 1.5 weeks till a month long Easter “break” (there will be no rest during this month) then portfolio’s will be due second week of May! Wish me luck! Taken with Instagram at Shoreditch High Street Overground station.

Sketches. Shipping Containers+Bishopsgate Goodsyard.

For second semester we are working with a charity to design something which will house one of their services directed at the homeless population of London.

I chose the charity Crisis and decided to create something that acts as the “next step” to one of their services. Crisis offers a lot of courses aimed at helping people who have hit a rough patch in their lives learn skills and trades so they can get positively re-integrated into society and a few of these courses are directed at the food-services industry where they teach their students everything from food safety, cooking, how to work in front of house and kitchen and they do this through classrooms and then take them through their Skylight Cafe for hands-on experience. The Skylight Cafe is a small cafe in east London run but formerly homeless during the day serving small snacks, sandwiches and tea/coffee.

My proposal was to create the next step where they could make a career out of the skills they learn at the cafe and progress towards a career in the culinary field. I proposed a large training kitchen where those who took courses in their culinary program can treain to be Chefs and a restaurant where those trained in wait staff can learn and work. Both of these facilities will be nestled in some of the listed arches that are existing features of our site (Bishopsgate Goods Yard in Shoreditch) and which we were asked to incorporate into our design.

One thing i’ve always loved about architecture is how some architects are able to play with “new” and “old” so well. What i mean by this is how 100year old churches, factories, etc can be renovated to create a completely new experience yet hold so much of its old character. I wanted to do something a little similar in the sense that i mix the remaining listed arches with something new and industrial, a shipping container.

I tried a few different approaches on using the shipping containers but keeping them flat and how they were “meant” to sit seemed very boring so i thought I’d turn them on their ends and pretend they were pins and the arches was the pin cushion. This ended up getting really good feedback because the containers on their end could now serve many purposes. Some could cut through the arch ceilings and act as giant light cannons, others could be lit from the inside and shoot beams of light out added to the general effect of seeing a couple dozen of these 12m long containers on their end and attract people into the site.

Anyways, more pics will be uploaded soon. 1.5 weeks till a month long Easter “break” (there will be no rest during this month) then portfolio’s will be due second week of May!

Wish me luck!

Taken with Instagram at Shoreditch High Street Overground station.