Architecture, Urbanism and Planning

Tag: ulysses

  • Playing with Translucency | Historic Project Excerpts

    Playing with Translucency | Historic Project Excerpts


    Experiments in transparency and translucency, using layers of the facade to merge with and hint at the functions and movements within the building. This is an ongoing interest for the practice with the subtleties of exterior and interior relationships being explored in ways that are about both ambiguity and connection. With the ongoing interest in facade manipulation in Architecture, we believe that the envelope continues to be about both mediation and communication, with the decorative possibilities acheived as a result of these explorations.

    Built Project:

    New low energy slab cooled reception and registry buildings (clashing into and in symbiotic relationship with the back of an existing 60’s courtyard block originally designed for this purpose) designed and completed for the University of Kent at Canterbury while Ulysses Sengupta was Project Architect at Cornish Architects in London.  

    Please use the link below to contact Cornish Architects directly:

    www.cornisharchitects.com

  • Embedding Ecology – The Eco Farm Project 01

    Embedding Ecology – The Eco Farm Project 01

    Embedding Ecology – The Eco Farm Project 01 from softgrid_limited on Vimeo.

    This is a quick early fly through of a project we are involved in (China ). The video was not meant to be of a completed design, but rather an attitude that we brought to the project in the early stages.

    Our accepted proposal based on this quick visualisation reflected the main spatial/architectural principles involved:
    1) An actual ecological area at the heart of the agricultural/scientific scheme
    2) Public access to the new amenity created (a public park)
    3) Working with the topography and studied water paths and collection
    4) Incorporating/enjoying the abstract patterns created by human intervention in the form of agricultural landscapes
    5) Shifting perceptual possibilities through seasonal variance

    Produced in co-operation with: Marc Sawan
    www.eye-kon.com