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My major project is titled Urban Tablet and it's to create
a new landmark, landscape for a new cultural distination in London.
They're moving to a new home, just off of Oxford Street
and my aim is to express the photographers gallery
in the landscape and to do this I'm creating a series
of temporary installations which engage the public
and make the public the theatre of the space and the only
way that you can recall the move through the lens of the camera.
The theme from that will be taken outside and turned
into a temporary installation which would happen
over a weekend period and due to its temporary nature
it allows the public to engage with the site.
My final year project was initiated by the Photographer's Gallery
and they needed some inspiration, so they came to us.
You can use people as a resource, rather than a constraint.
I was using new technologies, piezoelectric technology
to harvest energy from peoples feet, you can get
3 to 5 watts of energy from every footstep using
this new technology and then I wanted to use a linear
design to draw people in and through the site.
This is all sits within Westminster’s orb action plan,
which their vision is to create a much improved pedestrian
environment. I want to locate the technology on the Oxford Street
end of the site because of the higher number of people there.
Through many different sketch models and sketching and researching
into expanding, folding, storing furniture, I came up with
the concept of my expandable bench, which allows for flexible
exterior use of space.
For me when I started, was what I wanted to do,
I wanted to have proper ideas that I believed in and
real concepts and not just something that looks nice.
My major project was set in the east-end of London,
it was based on the Limehouse Cut, a canal which
is 2 miles long, which is a arrow straight industrial canal,
built in the 1700s, it's now in need of re-generation,
so I sort of came up with the idea of fitness for all,
it's sort of a free, socialist, fitness destination
which would operate out of a park which is halfway
along the canal. I was looking at studies of obesity,
60% of the UK are overweight and there's a link between
obesity and deprived areas, so it seemed to make sense that
the project should be sited there. I was going to propose
that there was going to be more kayaking facilities,
new swimming pool, football pitches, open-air sort of recreation space
and change facilities and from this park the project would spread along
a canal and the sort of pocket spaces between
derelict buildings. In these pocket spaces there would be
gym equipment, exercise classes, space for yoga,
space for anything that would sort of be wanted by the community.
It's about having vision and a way of backing
that up with all kinds of literature and things that have
gone on in the past, but also being able to communicate
the vision and being able to share it enough
with their colleagues here, not just the staff, but
with the other students, and that's very important,
we know that very big ideas have to start somewhere and
we want them to start here, in the landscape interface studio
of Kingston.