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.
WIP images of surface development for @assembleofficial using beautiful 100% waste-based tiles by @granbyworkshop. #wip #architecture #reuse #ceramics #architecturalceramics #lwsjournal
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
@museoguatelli ..............................thanks @nicholas___brookz for the tip-off. #toolbox #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
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
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
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
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
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
Traditional hay drying #faroeislands #landscapearchitecture #traditionalfarming #lwsjournal
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
Blending materials for plaster samples #wasteisaresource #materialpalette #buildingcraft #lwsjournal
Testing waste materials. New samples for building projects. #wastematerial #architecture #newmaterial #building #ecodesign #sustainabledesign #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal
Reflecting on a busy week for our oyster projects. Been filming so far with #asbp and no.1 Italian channel #raiuno, and more to come this week. Has been great to conclude on some of the last 3 years worth of research. #vernacularmaterials #historicbuildingtechniques #oysters #making #makingmaterials #architecture #buildingcraft #localworksstudio #lwsjournal
Samples for 2 new projects: making bricks and tiles from crushed bricks and tiles. Both sites involve the demolition of failing existing structures. #wip #sample #architecture #architecturesamples #brick #tiles #waste #material #building #lwsjournal
Analysing public mapping of paths, twittens and hidden social spaces for Neighbourhood Plan consultation = my kind of morning! #lwsjournal
Ben in the hot seat! Filming today at the studio for @soad_brighton #wasteisaresource project. Exciting to hatch future plans with filmmaker @jvanvlietfilm #lwsjournal
New things........#tiles #waste #architecture #design #localworksstudio #lwsjournal
Work in progress survey drawings. #wip #geeksontour #architecture #drawing #design #vernacular #lwsjournal
