As described in other posts the project of making St Johns an artist study relied on the careful integration and separation of different activities. The idea was to have a mixed use development based on a cooperative business style, so security between the different...
Incremental Usage The Masters Project was plagued with the problem of how much change to the school was necessary and feasible to make successful and affordable artist studios. It became a matter of hypothesising what activities could be brought into the building to...
Threshold Study Part of my Masters Thesis. A key part of changing the use of a building is deciding how much alteration to the building fabric is necessary; I needed to find the most appropriate way of developing a series of private and public spaces that allowed...
What makes a successful studio space? I spent some time visiting artist studios and studying the workspaces of other architecture students to see what people needed in their environment to work. The conclusion was that artists often live close to the bread line and...
This was part of the initial study of St Johns. With a split level across the site, partially enclosed courtyards and a few extensions added over the years there was an issue deciding on an appropriate main entrance. This drawing was used to help understand every...
