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
Despite lockdown chaos, really enjoyed an early morning/late night conversation with @molonglo @danihro @philip_christou @irenee.scalbert about risk, time, relational approaches to design and territorial urbanism. Thanks very much for the invitation @assembleofficial it made our week. #lwsjournal
Prototyping for @assembleofficial. Waste-based lime mortars with tiles by @granbyworkshop ♻️♻️♻️#buildingcraft #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal #architecture
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
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
Our chairs for @maggiesinsouthampton enjoying the sun today. They’ll sit permanently outside in the beautiful garden by @sarahpricelandscapes. …………………………Chair design, prototyping and textile work (#twillweave) ♻️ - Local Works Studio. Fire hose textile sourced as local waste and kindly donated by @hantsiowfireservice🔥Metal work by the amazing @makingitout_cio 🧑🏭- Making it Out work with people who have recently left prison or are at risk of ending up in prison without support. They offer work experience, training and employment opportunities to people who are not yet ready for the demands of the regular workplace. The participants learn valuable design and craft skills and get involved in the entire design process, manufacture and fulfilment. They focus on the use of sustainable materials and put an emphasis on high quality workmanship based on simple innovative solutions. #chair #maggies @maggiescentres #chairdesign #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal
...following on from last post. More samples for false reefs made from waste shell materials #shellcrete #heavygardening Andrew Merritt @somethingandson @dewiuridge #landscapearchitecture #oysterarchitecture #reef #falsereef #oyster #oysters #livingreef #wasteisaresource #materialdesign #mussels #molusc #biodiversity #landscapearchitecture #lwsjournal #oysterreef #shellcrete #shell #shellfish #musselshells #liverpool #tateliverpool #oysterreefrestoration
@museoguatelli ..............................thanks @nicholas___brookz for the tip-off. #toolbox #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
Completed false reef structure for #heavygardening project with Andrew Merritt @somethingandson. This will be sited underwater at the bottom of Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool. Hoping for maximum colonisation by shellfish and other sea life. The full sculpture will include 8 ropes for mussels to grow on 🐚 🦞 🦪 🦐 🐠 🐟. The reef structure ring is cast with our #shellcrete material using waste oyster shells from seafood restaurants. The outer shell decoration should mimic natural oyster reefs, and encourage different bivalve molluscs to grow on the shelly surface. #increasebiodiversity #shellcrete #oyster #oysterreef #mussels #liverpool #lwsjournal #falsereef #reef #oysters #oystershell #shell
Very grateful to @heritagecrafts for awarding us a generous grant from their latest round of funding 💥♻️💥@sussexheritagetrust #buildingcraft #wasteisaresource #learningfromthevernacular #lwsjournal
Prototyping a new garden chair with attached side table for @maggiesinsouthampton. The finished piece will look quite different, but it’s great to realise in plywood first. Many thanks again to @jsanders22 #lwsjournal
Really enjoying our design and prototyping process for some external furniture for @maggiescentres with @sarahpricelandscapes. We are designing and making tables and benches using materials from the site and immediate local area. ♻️♻️♻️ #reuse #landscapearchitecture #wasteisaresource #lwsjournal @maggiesinsouthampton
Excited to share that we’ve been working with @carmodygroarke and @transarchitectuurstedenbouw to develop a bespoke brick, for the extension to @designmuseumgent. For the last few months we’ve been testing and prototyping excavation sub-soil materials from Gent, blending them with lime, and forming bricks in a high-pressure press. The eventual fabrication of the bricks will happen as close to Design Museum Gent as possible, to reduce material transportation. It’s a great project, and a real pleasure to be involved. #designmuseumgent #lwsjournal #brick #bricklove #localrockscene #architecture #materialdesign @circular.flanders #wastebasedbricks #circulareconomy #gent #ghent @restarchitecten
Really happy to have started our work @glyndebourne for a project run by @bakerbrown_studio. We are currently collecting the Glyndebourne glass waste, which will be crushed and transformed into bespoke building materials and features for a new permanent pavilion within the gardens. We are also collecting raw excavated chalks, clays and plant materials from the surrounding estate. 🍾 🍹 🍺 🍷 ♻️♻️♻️ #architecture #reuse #wasteisaresource #glyndebourne #southdownsnationalpark #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
Our prototype waste bricks are heading off to mainland Europe, for further testing and experimental construction techniques. ♻️🏗🧱🔬Have a great trip! Wish I was going with you. #buildingcraft #lwsjournal #experimentalbuilding #brick #bricklove
Blending materials for plaster samples #wasteisaresource #materialpalette #buildingcraft #lwsjournal
Splitting sweet chestnut timber for a couple of our Sussex projects 🌰 🪓 🌰 We love everything about chestnut! It’s an amazing timber with so many qualities and potential applications. The cyclical felling and re-growth of managed coppice woodlands has huge benefits for the biodiversity of the woods and carbon capture. Thanks to @jsanders22 for his very fine lath making. #coppice #sweetchestnut #carbonsequestration #sustainablewoodlands #lwsjournal #buildwithwood #buildingcraft #landscapecraft #craft
Our garden furniture for @maggiesinsouthampton in lovely November sun 🌞 (and early morning dew!). Complete set of furniture using waste fire hose material for the textile webbing, and excess/damaged terracotta material for table plinth and tops. @sarahpricelandscapes @makingitout_cio #furnituredesign #maggies #chairdesign #lwsjournal #localworksstudio #wasteisaresource #design #gardendesign #waste #wastemanagement