Using Local Landscape Materials
We aim to create and sustain places that feel rooted in the landscape, that reflect and enhance the lives and pursuits of the people who inhabit them.
Reposted from localworkstudio Some samples leaving the workshop today. Internal plasters and external renders made from site-based materials 🌾🌱🌿for our project in #southdownsnationalpark with bbm_sustainable_design #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture
Lots of exciting and varied projects starting at LWS. designing - making - talking - thinking - repairing - collecting - testing - building - teaching. Big thanks to @thewoodentruth. #buildingcraft #jackofalltrades #lwsjournal
WIP images of surface development for @assembleofficial using beautiful 100% waste-based tiles by @granbyworkshop. #wip #architecture #reuse #ceramics #architecturalceramics #lwsjournal
We are working with @assembleofficial, on their amazing project at Durham Wharf, London. Developing bespoke materials for external and internal finishes. More to follow....#wasteisaresource #circulareconomy #architecture #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture
Really enjoyed talking today to @aaschool Experimental Program, Unit 7. Focussing on using raw site-based materials, and a learning-through-making approach. #landscapearchitecture #localworksstudio #buildingcraft #lwsjournal
Great to meet, talk and discuss with Rhode Island School of Design - Material Logic course @risdlandscape and @gavinz__ today. Landscape narratives, people, materials and processes. #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture @risd1877
Some samples leaving the workshop today. Internal plasters and external renders made from site-based materials 🌾🌱🌿for our project in #southdownsnationalpark with @bbm_sustainable_design #lwsjournal #landscapearchitecture
@museoguatelli ..............................thanks @nicholas___brookz for the tip-off. #toolbox #lwsjournal
Barley straw and 2 tons of lovely soft chalk picked up today from a farmer who works next to our current site in East Sussex. These materials will be processed into internal plasters. The barley is much softer than wheat 🌾 and a perfect plant fibre to reinforce our chalk plasters. The chalk is a soft, buff coloured material known as Marly Chalk, it contains impurity’s of clay, which make it softer than other chalks found in the South Downs. #landscapearchitecture #buildingcraft #lwsjournal
Blending materials for plaster samples #wasteisaresource #materialpalette #buildingcraft #lwsjournal
Charcoal + chalk. We’re lucky to have a remote studio and workshop, allowing us to continue processing materials for live projects. Access to building materials is tricky at the moment, but we are able to make our own using previously gathered raw materials, waste and by-products. This black and white mix will become chalk plaster, required on 2 of our current projects. #chalk #charcoal #buildingcraft #procurement #materials #wip #architecture #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal
So happy to make a long-awaited design team visit to Barking Riverside yesterday with Xavier Llarch Font from @thedecorators and @anushkaathique. For the past month we’ve been busy reviewing the Placemaking Strategy for Barking Riverside and preparing to develop an implementation plan for placemaking interventions across this enormous site. Very exciting to be thinking at such a mind-blowing scale, at a very challenging time, that is nonetheless full of potential for positive change. #barkingriverside #placemaking #lwsjournal
Traditional hay drying #faroeislands #landscapearchitecture #traditionalfarming #lwsjournal
Plaster samples for a current project in Sussex. Blends of chalk, clays and plant fibres. We’ve been designing, making and using natural plasters for 15 years. Inspired by historic vernacular UK processes and traditional Japanese plasterwork, which is exquisite. #plasterwork #buildingcraft #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal #localworksstudio
Testing waste materials. New samples for building projects. #wastematerial #architecture #newmaterial #building #ecodesign #sustainabledesign #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal
Fun Friday afternoon sorting out the office samples library #materials #samples #wasteisaresource #localworksstudio #lwsjournal
Gateway to harbour made from Sperm whale jaw bones. #faroeislands #streetfurniture #whalebones #lwsjournal
Analysing public mapping of paths, twittens and hidden social spaces for Neighbourhood Plan consultation = my kind of morning! #lwsjournal
Happy volunteers! Some having "never held a drill in my life" went on to build this rather professional looking path at 'Wild About Barcombe' community wild space. They're planning to come back next week on their own to finish the job and are genuinely chuffed to have learnt a new skill. Could have got contractors in, but this is better. #lwsjournal